Surviving Paris's record heatwave while seven months pregnant in an underserved neighbourhood
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Megan Clement
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A personal account of surviving a record-breaking Paris heatwave while seven months pregnant. The author contrasts the 2019 heatwave with the even more severe 2024 event, highlighting the dangers of extreme heat in Seine-Saint-Denis, the poorest département in mainland France. The piece explores the inadequacy of cooling strategies, the class dimensions of climate vulnerability, and the feeling of abandonment by authorities as extreme heat becomes more frequent and deadly.
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· 3 pulledReader, it was not fun and they did not help.
Paris experienced its worst period of catastrophic heat on record, worse than that day in 2019, and worse than in 2003, when a sustained heatwave killed nearly 15,000 people.
It feels as if we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power, with further extreme heat expected next week
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