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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire

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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
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People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthyIf you think the temperature uncomfortable today, let me take you to the last day of July 2052, the rays of the climbing sun reveal a city still sweltering in the residual heat of the day before. From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents and cobbled-together shelters, within which the city’s residents have spent anot

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