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Wild Weathers are Everywhere- but not to worry!


Today is all about the wild weather of the world.
In Greece, wildfires of ‘biblical’ proportions have destroyed homes, killing dozens of families.
Rescuers continue to sweep the wreckage in search of missing people- thousands more have been left homeless- their houses charred to ashes.
In Laos, a dam has collapsed. At least three thousand people still in need of rescue, after they were stranded atop buildings due to flash flooding.
An unprecedented heatwave in Japan has been declared a natural disaster, as the death toll mounts nears a hundred, with 22,000 hospitalized for heatstroke.
The heat shows no sign of abating.
But despite these stories peppering the global headlines,
And despite the snowballing repetition of phrases like ‘hottest month in the history of human civilization’-
No one seems to be acknowledging the giant, flaming elephant in the room.
Our climate is changing.
The news today, regarding climate change- talks about Mary Robinson, who is launching a new feminist fight against global warming.
A Facebook video is spreading climate denial misinformation to the platforms 5 million users.
And there are smatterings of stories, discussing how ‘climate change may cause more suicides in the US, by the year 2050’.
These stories, already lacking in urgency, are from local news platforms, independent agencies, and freelance journalists.
The large majority of the Mainstream Media have a vacuum where the global warming discussion should sit. The entire topic is being ignored.
Perhaps, it’s not relevant. Perhaps, the huge influxes of wild fires and heatwaves- wherein pockets of the world are literally burning up- have zero connection to a warming planet.
It’s not as though any recorded increase in temperature has been mapped.
Or- hold on. What’s this about the Paris Agreement? Formulated in 2016, to try to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius?
Of course, last year, we’d already surpassed that point, so they loosened the belt and decided to aim for a limit of a 2 degree temperature rise.
The way we are going. Even a 2 degree limit is starting to look like a fantasy.
But surely such a slight temperature increase can’t be that important? After all, the USA has pulled out of the Paris Agreement- so any goals must be just some hippie guidelines you might as well ignore.
Wrong.
If the global temperature increases to 3 degrees Celsius- there will be catastrophic consequences.
Many cities will be underwater. Droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves will be commonplace. Migration will rocket, but not due to war- due to people trying to flee the wreckage reaped by our baking blue planet.
No need to worry though- it’s not us that will suffer, it’s the future generations.
Our grandkids might be a little peeved but that’s a way away- so why bother making a headline about it?

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