Who pays when overheated roads melt and rails buckle?
What does not disappear is the lasting and costly damage they do to the basic infrastructure we rely on in our daily lives.Ultra-hot days and nights can result in the deaths of many people (those who cannot afford air conditioning especially) and they ignite forest infernos of terrifying intensity. Some of these make the news but what does not usually make headlines is the damage to roads, railways, bridges and other infrastructure.Yet the cost is there, mounting more rapidly as each sweltering summer arrives – and it will have to be paid for by current and future generations. On July 15, Reuters reported on Europe’s race to protect infrastructure from heat as “railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain”.
- ▪What does not disappear is the lasting and costly damage they do to the basic infrastructure we rely on in our daily lives.Ultra-hot days and nights can result in the deaths of many people (those who cannot afford air conditioning especiall
- ▪Some of these make the news but what does not usually make headlines is the damage to roads, railways, bridges and other infrastructure.Yet the cost is there, mounting more rapidly as each sweltering summer arrives – and it will have to be
- ▪On July 15, Reuters reported on Europe’s race to protect infrastructure from heat as “railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain”.
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| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:30:08 +0000 |
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