Why Are Heat Waves Becoming More Intense?

Why are heat waves becoming more intense? Indeed, this summer the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing record heat waves. July 2023 was the hottest month since we began temperature measurements, and there are also record temperatures in the oceans. The Mediterranean, for example, measured five degrees above average. There have been record heat waves in the U.S., Europe, and other places. The deeper reason for the heat waves is that we humans are nature’s highest level out of the four levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human. Accordingly, our attitudes to each other hold the most influence in nature. While we develop increasingly negative attitudes toward each other, we likewise feel nature’s response to us in increasingly negative ways. If, however, we want to cool down on the inside and on the outside, i.e., to become more restrained and balanced in our attitudes toward each other, then we will also experience how nature cools down in relation to us. Our negative attitu