‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave loomed, driving home the reality that the world’s richest nations remain unprepared for the intensifying consequences of climate change. A firefighter battled the Sugar Fire in Doyle, Calif., this month.Credit...Noah Berger/Associated Press 1078 Somini Sengupta By Somini Sengupta Published July 17, 2021 Updated July 19, 2021, 9:16 a.m. ET Leer en español Some of Europe’s richest countries lay in disarray this weekend, as raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium, submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the destruction. Only days before in the Northwestern United States, a region famed for its cool, foggy weather, hundreds had died of heat. In Canada, wildfire had burned a village off the map. Moscow reeled from record temperatures. And this weekend the norther...
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