Call me a killjoy, but I agree with Zoe Williams (Why are we pretending to be heatwaves fun – and ignore the cruel, burning truth? 23 June). Not only because I am a fading redhead with fair skin, freckles, vitiligo and a need for factor 50 protection. I’m glad to feel warm with my bones to anyone. Now, the world is warmer than I was when I was young. I am currently 68 and science predicts a warmer climate for many years. People around the world died because they were overwhelmed.
Is there someone who cares? The opportunity to be established in human-centered solutions to heating is missed – for example, to the city’s homes and for weak people who are incredibly predicted by scientists. I worry about my children and grandchildren. What kind of world do we build?
It’s a thing to build on public notifications how people stay cool with heat – obvious things like hydration, sunscreen closed. the Physiological Society Roadmap For dealing with climate change for multidisciplinary techniques in search of solutions for policies and infrastructure heating in heating heat.
Dr Laura M Gilesi
Yaxham, Norfolk
While most of England ran under Amber Heat warnings, another crisis is quietly stinged: Wildfires rapidly watched the British climate emergency. Now, More than 560 wildfires Recorded in England and Wales – a sevenfold increase at the same time in 2024 many blasts caused by available barbecue, cigarettes or glasses – small acts with resulting danger. Peatlands and Woodlands, essential carbon sunks and hunters for biodiversity, destroyed by acre in acre.
However we have no national wildfire method. There is no steady prohibition of open-time fires at high risk. And fire services, cut into bone, left to improvise in front of this new normal. This is no longer a mediterranean problem. If there is no urgent national action, the UK will face a cycle of summer infernos. Ministers must return the fund to fire services, introduce fire restrictions during alerts and establish an accurate residential plan of answering wildfire. Anything less satisfaction with the climate.
Antony David Davies
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
The way in which the media positively presents a warmer and dangerous time with words like “beautiful” and “beautiful day” enraged me. Such descriptions are judgments of personal value and should be kept from the purpose of reporting. Everything that can tell the purpose is that it is hot. My immune system struggles to deal with the heat due to medicine to help back the breast cancer. High temperatures and humidity left me tired and forced to find home refuge. I wished for a more benign period, days where I could keep my normal life without being forced to choose until it passed.
The binary view is that warm weather corresponds to good and cold / wet weather corresponds to the bad chance to attract everything to do their little to protect the environment.
Helen Peebles
Stamford, Lincolnshire
