THE HEAT ISN’T OUR FAULTThe planet feels like it’s baking. Cities turn into ovens, people crowd under the shade of trees, dip into fountains, or flock to the so-called “climate oases” popping up in public squares. The news keeps hammering the same line: “Climate change is killing us.” Every heatwave is framed as undeniable proof that we’re living through an unprecedented environmental apocalypse.
But scratch the surface, and the story starts to crumble. Official meteorological records—yes, from over a hundred years ago—show that many of the extreme temperatures we’re told are “new” have been recorded before. Scorching summers, weeks-long heatwaves, temperature records that were set long before this decade… all in a time when industrialization was barely starting, without millions of cars, passenger planes, mega-factories, or today’s CO₂ levels.
Memory is short, and the narrative is profitable. Because if extreme heat existed long before our massive emissions, it’s harder to sell the idea that human activity is the only—or even the main—cause. Climate has always changed—through natural cycles, solar activity, oceanic variations—and it will keep changing, with or without us.
So why the obsession with tying every extra degree on the thermometer to our way of life? Maybe because the “solutions” being pushed aren’t really about cooling the planet—they’re about tightening control over the population. Forced limits on mobility, energy restrictions, green taxes that line the same pockets as always, and a growing climate bureaucracy that expands at the expense of people’s freedom and security.
No, we’re not going to melt the planet by driving a car or turning on the AC. And no, heatwaves aren’t some brand-new phenomenon of this era. What is new is how the climate is being used to reshape society—and not in a way that makes it freer.
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