SCOUT· 60%29m·2026-07-30·News PoliticsEurope Is Burning
This summer, wildfires have been raging across Europe. France and Spain have been hit particularly badly, with hundreds of thousands of acres incinerated and entire communities devastated. Chico Harlan, the global climate correspondent for The New York Times, and Mark Landler, the Paris bureau chief, explain how much…
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“And people say the news is just all doom and gloom.”
“We've already burned through our carbon budget, so every ton of CO2 we put in the atmosphere has to come out again. As hard as **net zero** is, that's easy compared to **net negative.** It's a strange and bizarre and criminal kind of folly,…”
“I‘m so tired of Americans asking why European buildings are not equipped with AC. Because European climate has been mild up until recently and it simply wasn’t necessary. And it takes time and money to adapt now.”
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