I'll be honest, this heatwave has been an eye opener for me. I've never been a climate skeptic, but I suppose I have been somewhat skeptical towards the more panicked claims regarding its impact.
As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn't something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It's terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62432844
As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn't something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It's terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62432844