Several events have been canceled or postponed in the country to avoid overloading hospitals which are already near their breaking point, especially in the Paris region.
The stats show that this measurement changes a lot depending on when you take it. Excess deaths go up sharply during a heatwave, then drop below expectations in the six months afterwards.
Unsurprisingly, this is because the heat hits the most vulnerable hardest, especially those who are otherwise ill or dying.
Before anyone assumes this is some defence of the people responsible for this, I’d like to point out I’m making a statistical point, not a moral one.
I get your point. I’m thinking more generally - damages, disruption, distress. Those can’t be questioned IMO. Why not a general lawsuit? Make them pay to build better infrastructure to survive the mess they made (and made us buy into)
The stats show that this measurement changes a lot depending on when you take it. Excess deaths go up sharply during a heatwave, then drop below expectations in the six months afterwards.
Unsurprisingly, this is because the heat hits the most vulnerable hardest, especially those who are otherwise ill or dying.
Before anyone assumes this is some defence of the people responsible for this, I’d like to point out I’m making a statistical point, not a moral one.
I get your point. I’m thinking more generally - damages, disruption, distress. Those can’t be questioned IMO. Why not a general lawsuit? Make them pay to build better infrastructure to survive the mess they made (and made us buy into)
In principle you’re quite correct
The legal system, in most countries, was never designed to accommodate such a plan sadly.
You’ll run into issues proving both forseeability and causation from specific acts to specific outcomes.
There’s so many factors and an interdependent system, allocating burden is a challenge for a jury.
It can be done, it has been done in specific cases, but a general attribution of blame is going to struggle
I say we try