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Hugh Osborne

And, of course, the picture just HAS to include holidaymakers on a beach, to give it the obligatory "Phew, What A Scorcher!" framing. I'm amazed the photographer didn't set them up with ice creams and knotted handkerchiefs.

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Vivienne

They are watching the world burn in front of them, to be fair. The last two people on the beach.

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Hugh Osborne

To be sure, but having humans watching the effects of global warming from a distance serves to a) render the fires a mere spectacle to be gawped at; and b) reinforces the implied message that humanity's actions are somehow dissociated from the consequences of global warming. Arguably.

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Hugh Osborne

Or perhaps I taught Barthes' Mythologies too often in my younger days...