We found this article gut-wrenching to read, yet thought-provoking and worthwhile. It includes many hard-to-hear truths – as it lists just a few of the weather and climate-related disasters the world is currently experiencing – or very recently experienced.
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS:
The world is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years, and it’s as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing.
The warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont, where two months of rain just fell in only two days. India and Japan were deluged by extreme flooding.
They’re blaring from the scorching streets of Texas, Florida, Spain and China, with a severe heat wave also building in Phoenix and the Southwest in coming days.
They’re burbling up from the oceans, where temperatures have surged to levels considered “beyond extreme.”
And they’re showing up in unprecedented, still-burning wildfires in Canada that have sent plumes of dangerous smoke into the United States.
The solution?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which includes hundreds of the world’s top climate experts — has called for countries to roughly halve emissions by the end of the decade and eliminate planet-warming pollution by the middle of the century. Humans can unleash only about 500 more gigatons of carbon dioxide to have an even shot at keeping warming below a manageable threshold.
And then later in the article, a glimmer of hope. Recently Rachel Bezner Kerr, a Cornell University sociologist had this experience…
… smoke from Canada’s wildfires descended on her hometown of Ithaca, New York, staining the skies orange, and Bezner Kerr’s friends and colleagues started asking her for help processing their fear.
Maybe, she thought, this would be a turning point. Maybe people are finally realizing: The alarm bells are ringing for us.
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