The Day the Planet Burned, and Everybody Looked Away

It’s the Hottest Day in 100,000 Years — But Did Anyone Care?

Image Credit: Capitol Weather Gang on Twitter

This is going to sound mean. Sorry about that, maybe, you can be the judge, I guess.

To gain some appreciation for just how much of an idiot the average person is…where the world is…how foolish our politicians are…what plight humanity faces in the 21st century…consider the following.

We just lived through something for which historic is an understatement. Something epochal, in the literal sense of the word.

But can you guess what it was? Go ahead, take a shot. Take another one. Ready?

We just lived through the hottest day in over 100,000 years. Even that’s an understatement. Four of them in fact. And summer’s just begun.

Now imagine that we went out on the street and asked the average person about all the above. Hey, you just lived through something historic, epochal, shattering. Do you…LOL…my dude…do you even know what it was?

I’d bet dollars to donuts, or maybe macarons to megafires, that they’d have…no clue. I’d get answers like: “Taylor Swift announced a new Eras tour?!” Or maybe: “Elon Musk invented super-AI?!” Or: “They finally made wokeness against the law?! Even more!! Yay!!”

What wouldn’t happen, I can all but guarantee, and I say that because I actually do this, weirdly enough, just like this — I take Snowy to the cafe, and strangers stop to pet him, or rather he boops random people, being the friendly little curious puffy ball that he is, and being who I am, I throw in a random question here and there as we say hi — like I was saying, I can all but guarantee that maybe out of 10 people, 1 would be able to articulate…the answer.