A report titled “Rings of fire” has warned hot temperatures pose health dangers for those competing. The report has been backed by climate scientists and athletes.

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  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    We’re destroying our own habitat, not to mention the habitat of other life that isn’t actively burning the very ground beneath their feet, all out of sociopathy, greed, and ego. We’re competing against one another over ego scores, leaving people homeless and exposed to our ever hotter climate as it burns all to see which owner can get the highest score in their exploitation competition before they have to retreat to their luxury bunkers to sip aged booze and revel in the nostalgia of their past exploitative conquests for their last years without a drop of guilt, mischief managed.

    The idea that our species will continue to gather to celebrate the supposed nobility of human competition, as our many self-created existential crises born of competing against one another close in around us, is gallows hilarious to me.

    Homeostasis with our only world and cooperation with one another should have been humanity’s business, especially when the scientists started warning us of what we were doing about a century ago.

    Is what it is, enjoy watching athletes collapse of heat stroke in the spirit of competition.