![]() ![]() McKinsey is already exploring how to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth, the topic of the inaugural episode of the new Future of America podcast. After more than two years of reporting on a destructive force, we look forward to sharing our research and thoughts on how people and organizations can build a better world. Our new theme will be sustainable and inclusive growth. In a few weeks, we will relaunch this weekly report with links to the latest McKinsey publications. COVID-19 has gone from being a fresh emergency to a fact of life. All of McKinsey’s published work now intrinsically accounts for the pandemic, even if it is not directly mentioned. COVID-19 news seems less urgent than at any time in the past two years. But in what is perhaps a hopeful sign, we now feel the time is right to stop. It’s painful to reflect on these 100 editions, on the millions of lives lost, the suffering and grief, and the myriad disruptions to lives and livelihoods. We did not expect to continue for more than two years, nor to ever publish briefing note #100, as we have today. Our plan was to publish an update on the virus’s implications for business for as many weeks as the news felt urgent. This has brought more extreme weather, including record-breaking high temperatures across the world.On March 2, 2020, just over a week before a global pandemic was declared, we published COVID-19: Briefing note #1. Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, released into Earth's atmosphere in large volumes are trapping the sun's heat, causing the planet to warm. State forecaster Meteo France said it was the earliest hot spell ever to hit the country, which has been caused by a mass of hot air moving from north Africa.Ĭlimate change is causing global temperatures to rise. Climate science and medical science says so. You’re much more likely to suffer heatstroke in June than you are in July or August. So what’s changed to make Frenchies more vulnerable to hot weather now than they have been over the preceding decades and centuries when the state did not ban public events whenever the weather got hot? It’s because it’s happening in June stupid, not July and August. In fact, the state prohibits you from exposing yourself to the weather in large groups for your own good.īut temperatures of 40C are nothing unusual in France. You don’t want to expose yourself to the weather. The French interior ministry warned people to be extremely careful and not expose themselves to the weather. ![]() "Everyone now faces a health risk", local official Fabienne Buccio told France Bleu radio. They’ll probably get around to banning large wedding celebrations next time it gets a bit hot (hetero couples only of course). Private celebrations, such as weddings, will still be allowed. But you are allowed to do some things, like get married. ![]() Any excuse to ‘prohibit’ normal human behaviour, be it a nasty cold virus or an alleged ‘record breaking’ heatwave. Being outside (or inside) and enjoying yourself is now prohibited. Indoor events at venues without air-conditioning are also banned. In Gironde, officials said public events, including some of the official 18 June Resistance celebrations, will be prohibited from Friday at 14:00 (12:00 GMT) "until the end of the heat wave". Spain, Italy and the UK are also experiencing high temperatures. Scientists say periods of intense heat are becoming more frequent and longer lasting as a result of global warming. On Thursday, parts of France hit 40C earlier in the year than ever before, with temperatures expected to peak on Saturday. Outdoor public events have been banned in an area of France as a record breaking heatwave sweeps across Europe.Ĭoncerts and large public gatherings have been called off in the Gironde department around Bordeaux. Of course, the BBC is positively salivating about the emergence of this new and exciting public health policy adopted and adapted from Covid lockdowns in order to fight the effects of the dreaded (and entirely imaginary) ‘climate crisis’. After Covid lockdowns ‘to protect public health’ come Climate lockdowns to also ‘protect public health’. Another conspiracy theory bites the dust. ![]()
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