News stories tell of people living in houses with water up to their ankles because they have nowhere else to go, their children coughing and wheezing because of the mold growing in their beds, insurance companies declaring bankruptcy leaving survivors without resources to rebuild their lives. Every day you see images of mothers with babies strapped to their backs, wading through floodwaters. Worse still, the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance has only intensified as the population has grown denser in habitable areas and temperatures continue to rise.Įvery day, because of rising water levels, some part of the world must evacuate to higher ground. Diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks are rampant as these species flourish in the changed climate, spreading to previously safe parts of the planet, increasingly overwhelming us. Melting permafrost is releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to-and as a result have no resistance to.
Now there are few forests left, most of them either logged or consumed by wildfire, and the permafrost is belching greenhouse gases into an already overburdened atmosphere. Oceans, forests, plants, trees, and soil had for many years absorbed half the carbon dioxide we spewed out. We have already passed tipping points, like The Great Melting of the Arctic sea ice, which used to reflect the sun’s heat. Our world is getting hotter, an irreversible development now utterly beyond our control. When storms and heat waves overlap and cluster, the air pollution and intensified surface ozone levels can make it dangerous to go outside without a specially designed face mask (which only some can afford). Everything might look fine-sunny and clear-but you know better.
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Instead, before opening doors or windows in the morning, you check your phone to see what the air quality will be. You can no longer simply walk out your front door and breathe fresh air.
In many places around the world, the air is hot, heavy, and depending on the day, clogged with particulate pollution. The first thing that hits you is the air. We are heading for a world that will be more than 3 degrees warmer by 2100. Beyond the emissions reductions registered in 2015, no further efforts were made to control emissions.
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