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Premium from the FT: Simon Kuper – How climate change will affect the holiday map
Since the heatwaves of 2019, summer has morphed from something to crave into something to fear... No beach is fun at 40C with wildfires on the horizon.
By Simon Kuper of The Financial Times
In 1975, Rudi Carrell, a Dutchman who became a star of German television, had a hit with the song "" or "When will it really be summer again?" He longed for bygone heatwaves, "when you didn't need the sauna/ when sheep were happy to be shorn":
A summer like in the old days,
Yes, with sunshine from June to September
And not so wet and Siberian, like last year
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