We are living through a time unprecedented in human history. The world is at once more connected than ever and also falling apart in ways almost beyond comprehension.
Living at the nexus of these two existential challenges is often disorienting. Scroll through your Twitter feed and you can see images that feel like a Michael Bay movie: the ocean on fire, a boat full of evacuees swerving away from a wall of flames, foundations of houses where a community once stood. The difference is they are video and photos of real-life, transmitted from the frontlines of the climate crisis by the very people suffering the impacts, into the palm of your hand while you wait for your latte or kill time between classes.
This summer has, unfortunately, yielded no shortage of viral images as floods, heat, and fires hit seemingly every corner of the planet. In doing so, it has also revealed a paradox of the climate-connected era we live in: The horrors of the climate crisis are becoming routine, background noise to the daily grind of life. Something that is happening somewhere else—until it is happening to you.
The climate crisis has its own version of Moore’s Law, where disasters continue to grow in scale, scope, and intensity. Because the climate system operates on a lag, it also means that the impacts we’re seeing today are, in part, from fossil fuels sold and burned decades ago. As the global average temperature of the entire planet rises, the risk of acute heat increases. In places such...
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