![]() It’s too late to wait for governments to act adequately: they don’t intend to. English tourists are sweltering in Spain – as the government bans air conditioning units from being set below 27 degrees to save power. ![]() The deadly heatwave is also putting pressure on already strained power infrastructure as people try to keep cool. Closer to home in Europe, thousands of people have been evacuated as out of control wildfires “tear through southwest France”. In California, Death Valley, normally the driest place in North America, saw flash floods after record rainfall (almost a year’s worth in three hours). You only have to look at the world headlines to know this isn’t an isolated problem. Why are communities, countries and the world not uniting, as they did for example during the global pandemic, to try and sort this out? Or at least make things less bad.Īs we sit in the throws of yet another UK heatwave today, what will it take to liberate action, at scale? We are potential agents of change – and we have no idea what we are capable of until we try. So, what I sometimes struggle to understand is, why aren’t nearly all our efforts, our time and our money going into battling this deep and deepening crisis? How we respond to it is going to be the only thing that our kids care about when they think of us when they are older. It is the issue that envelops all others. ![]() And remember: this is only the beginning.Ĭlimate breakdown and the devastation of the Earth is the most compelling issue of our time. It’s here, and this means that action is unavoidable. The climate crisis isn’t just on our doorstep now, it’s through the front door and sat on the welcome mat – and, unwelcome though it is, it won’t be leaving.
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