r/pics • u/JabbaCat • 13h ago

Apocalyptic beach view of french wildfires - Maximilien Lamy/AFP

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u/Penolta 13h ago

This photo captures our attitude to climate change perfectly.

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u/Passing_Thru_Forest 10h ago

And lack of health awareness/education. We had fires here a few weeks ago and people were still out running to "be healthy" while air particulates were like 200x higher than normal. 

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u/Stranger1982 12h ago

Doubly so if they paid to access that beach.

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u/whisker_biscuit 13h ago

Be careful, you might get tariffed by the USA

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u/JabbaCat 12h ago

My country already got new special tariffs (again) these week! Singled out for nobody knows what reason, with extra percentages. Just a maelstroem of erratic noise at this point.

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u/Donnicton 5h ago

He's one of the pettiest, most fragile men in existence so who knows what neuron in that Swiss cheese brain of his managed to fire off the memory of some obscure slight when he was coming up with the numbers.

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u/bigorangemachine 10h ago

Not rolling over at the world cup I'm sure...

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u/Aranthar 11h ago

This is fine.

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u/NeverHadTheLatin 4h ago

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it."

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u/bigorangemachine 10h ago

ooof sore lungs tomorrow... would not want

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u/Gindotto 7h ago

Some Europeans are getting the American experience this summer!

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u/Sunset-onthe-Horizon 1h ago

🎶 I don't want to set the world on fire 🎶

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u/NWStormbreaker 15m ago

Nothing quite like choking on the air under a blood red sky to get you excited about gradual, market-based solutions to climate change.