Rarely a fortnight goes by without another story of extreme weather costing people lives. A few weeks ago it was the Pacific Northwest. Today it is Germany and Belgium.
Some of this is simply a reporting issue, as cameras increase in ubiquity and news travels faster, images from droughts and floods are more easily deposited in our living rooms. But the reality is records are falling that are not simply a reporting issue. The world is hotter and these weather events are more common.
Being in the crisis does not mean that this is as bad as it will get. It will get worse. But the climate crisis is not simply a collapse into Mad Max style environmental anarchy. It is people and animals dying from the weather and billions in wealth being destroyed.
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