Daily Musing #1 - Acclimation

There is a new study being widely reported about how to protect yourself from the increasingly hot summers in a warming planet by “acclimating yourself” to the heat. This groundbreaking scientific discovery involves going outside for a while each day so your body can adapt and learn how to process. Not unlike an alcohol tolerance. I'm hip to the fact that we need to protect and prepare as we proceed in this changing world. That said, the notion that some of the most intelligent journalists in the world are being paid to interview further intelligent scientists to inform us that immersing ourselves in a difficult situation so we learn how to deal with it - as opposed to retreating into a more comfortable setting - might be the better option, is a metaphor I find simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.