Sometimes, I’m curious whether being able to chill outside will be a luxury good in the near future.
I wrote this text on the 24th of April, 2023. It was a day when I was doing street photography during a heatwave. How hot was it? It was 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). While walking, I started to think about the global warming. I reminded forecasts that tell that within the next one hundred years, there can be extensive desertification in Italy. Simultaneously, Poland will have a climate like today’s Italy. I do not remember the source of this forecast. Still, I can easily imagine that with the deepening climate change worldwide, this forecast can foretell the truth. Am I happy my homeland can get an Italian climate? No. I can see many Poles who will be simply content with this possibility.
The truth is that I much prefer the current Polish environment, with frigid temperatures that can last between October and early May.
While writing all these things, I started to wonder whether the number of people who like coldness, like me, will increase throughout the following years, with global warming proceeding. Going further, I started to wonder if being able to chill outside would be considered a luxury good in the future (e.g., in the second half of the XXI century). Perhaps, in Italy, it will. It may also happen in Poland. I do not want to imagine how it will be in the Sahara desert within the next 50 years. Perhaps even the frigid nights in the Sahara desert won’t be as cold as they are today. The truth is that I plan to use cool temperatures in Poland as long as possible. Since winter 2021/2022, I have walked in summer clothes in freezing temperatures. I plan to continue this unusual activity until the end of my life.
