As the World Health Organisation warns that Europe’s heatwave death toll could climb, Britain braces for record temperatures. We are told to stay indoors, hydrate, and check on the elderly. But let us not pretend this is merely a weather event.
This is a bellwether of civilisational decay. We have outsourced our resilience to air conditioning units, built cities that trap heat like ovens, and forgotten how to adapt. The Roman Empire fell not in a single day, but through a series of failures to respond to systemic shocks.
Today’s heatwave is our very own test. Will we pass, or will we be remembered as a people who melted into irrelevance?
