Midweek Question: How have you been impacted by climate change?
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For a long time, when it came to talking about climate change (or reporting on, for that matter), the effects were often painted in images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, disappearing sea ice, and the threat to species like polar bears. All of that is important, but we also know that by its global nature, climate change is a complex web of interconnected phenomena. And it will manifest itself in too many ways to count.
As someone living in Texas amidst a record-breaking cold streak that overwhelmed a power system not prepared for our new reality, I am living the effects of climate change in a very real and immediate sense. As are others across the nation, and around the world at this very moment.
Broken power grids. Natural disasters. New pathogens. Threats to food security. Desperate human migrations. And on and on. The climate crisis is an Earth crisis and a human crisis. It is an economic crisis. A justice crisis. And a health crisis. And it is a crisis growing more urgent and dire by the day.
So for today’s midweek questions, I am curious for all of you to share your perspectives: in what ways is the climate crisis affecting your lives, your communities, or issues you care about, especially in ways that you believe don’t get enough coverage?
Midweek Question: How have you been impacted by climate change?
Midweek Question: How have you been impacted by climate change?
Midweek Question: How have you been impacted by climate change?
For a long time, when it came to talking about climate change (or reporting on, for that matter), the effects were often painted in images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, disappearing sea ice, and the threat to species like polar bears. All of that is important, but we also know that by its global nature, climate change is a complex web of interconnected phenomena. And it will manifest itself in too many ways to count.
As someone living in Texas amidst a record-breaking cold streak that overwhelmed a power system not prepared for our new reality, I am living the effects of climate change in a very real and immediate sense. As are others across the nation, and around the world at this very moment.
Broken power grids. Natural disasters. New pathogens. Threats to food security. Desperate human migrations. And on and on. The climate crisis is an Earth crisis and a human crisis. It is an economic crisis. A justice crisis. And a health crisis. And it is a crisis growing more urgent and dire by the day.
So for today’s midweek questions, I am curious for all of you to share your perspectives: in what ways is the climate crisis affecting your lives, your communities, or issues you care about, especially in ways that you believe don’t get enough coverage?
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