I Want a Hot date, Not A Hot Planet,Climate change Street art sur Brick Lane à Londres alors qu'un dôme de chaleur extrême bat les records de température britanniques / européens
4992 x 3300 px | 42,3 x 27,9 cm | 16,6 x 11 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 novembre 2019
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Climate protest poster art on Brick Lane reads “I want a hot date, not a hot planet”, amid stencils
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A red climate protest poster reading “I Want a Hot Date, Not a Hot Planet” appears among layers of street art, paste-ups, stickers and torn advertising on Brick Lane in Spitalfields, east London. The witty slogan turns the language of dating into a warning about global heating, making the image suitable for coverage of climate activism, youth culture, environmental protest and extreme weather. The artwork gained added editorial relevance during the exceptional European heatwave of June 2026. Britain set a new June temperature record of 36.7°C at Merryfield in Somerset on 25 June, one day after Gosport reached 36.1°C and broke a record dating from 1957 and 1976. Across western Europe, temperatures exceeded 40°C, France experienced its hottest national day since measurements began, and Switzerland also broke its June record. The persistent high-pressure pattern was widely described as a heat dome and more precisely as an Omega block, trapping hot air over large parts of the continent. Scientists said the severity of the event would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change. Analysis reported that comparable heat was about 3.5°C hotter than the 1976 event and that extreme night-time temperatures had become around 100 times more likely than two decades earlier. Public-health warnings, tropical nights, transport disruption, school closures, water demand and heat stress made the consequences visible beyond weather reporting. Brick Lane is internationally associated with changing street art, political graphics and creative expression. The rough, repeatedly pasted surface surrounding the poster includes vivid red, pink, blue and black imagery, giving the photograph the appearance of an informal outdoor gallery. The image connects a humorous environmental slogan with the urgent news context of record-breaking heat, rising temperatures, climate emergency, carbon emissions and demands for stronger action to limit global warming
