Our summer vacation: 20,000 dead
AlterNet: Mike Davis: ‘It can no longer be taken for granted that European neo-liberalism is actually more “compassionate” than its more raptor-like American cousin.’ [→ READ ]
The overall European [heat wave] death toll is probably the equivalent to five or more World Trade Centers: at least 20,000 victims and probably more. Official estimates are at least 11,400 in France; more than 4000 in Italy; 1400 in the Netherlands; 1300 in Portugal; and some 900 in the United Kingdom. The Spanish figure of only 100 is hardly credible and should be the stuff of scandal.
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