Post by @eric@social.coop

2026-08-08 06:41 UTC

The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen. There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway: https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en #climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy

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@DavidBruchmann@mastodon.world 2026-08-08 06:55

@eric@social.coop According to your words we are on stage three of the common playbook: deny, deflect, delay. I'm missing a link to the EU's adaptation framework ...

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@eric@social.coop 2026-08-08 07:02

The EU report is detailed and gives an impression that a 3°C planet would be harsh but manageable under the same institutions. The report does not wonder about unknown unknowns. It does not address supply-chain disruption, financial contagion or people displacement. It lives in a fancy Fortress Europe. The report also never mentions #AMOC once, even as the evidence for the risk of its collapse to Europe hardens and Iceland starts treating it as a national security threat: https://mas.to/@maugendre/111917327688619004 🧵 #climatePolicy #adaptation #climateChange #livability #policy #climate #futures #EUPol #Europe #risks #riskAssessment

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