'The Sea Will Get as Hot as a Jacuzzi': What Life in Israel Will Be Like in 2100

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4. We are all God's children

But She has locked us in a hot car, and is down on her hands and knees on the sidewalk throwing up blood.

“It sounds ridiculous to us as Israelis,” she says, “because we are living under the illusion that we are physiologically acclimatized to the weather – certainly those of us who were born here. But that is just an illusion. The fact is that electric-power consumption records are broken yearly in Israel. One day in the near future there could be an intolerable heat wave, we will all turn on our air conditioners at the same time and the power grid will simply collapse. In the case of a power outage, we will not get help from the neighbors. That’s the scenario I find most disturbing.”