Why Europe should not only talk about armies, borders and defence — but about one year of service for heat, water, energy, infrastructure and social resilience
In an overheated attic flat, climate politics sounds very different than it does in an air-conditioned conference room.
There, the climate crisis is not a chart, not a party programme, not a dispute about heat pumps or emissions targets. There, it is a sleepless night. A child with a headache. An elderly woman who can no longer cool down. A care worker who knows that next summer will not be kinder. A city that stores heat all day and refuses to release it at night.
And a jar of Nutella that, in July, looks less like something to spread and more like something to drink with a straw.
For now, attic flats are still the places where Nutella turns from breakfast spread into a warm beverage. That is funny, as long as you are healthy, young enough, have access to a cold shower and can somehow sleep through the night.
But the joke turns bit…
