Climate change isn’t a theory. It’s not a “might happen, might not” farsighted concern for future generations, and it’s not a hypothetical. At the risk of feeding any climate anxiety you may already have, climate change is here, and we’ve already begun to feel the catastrophic effects of it.
Earlier this month, massive floods swept through Eastern Libya, nearly erasing the port city of Derma. The World Health Organization reports that roughly 4,000 people have died, while thousands more are still missing. And now, environmental scientists from the World Weather Attribution initiative are reporting that the Libyan floods were a product of climate change, sharing that increasing global temperatures caused by pollution made the unprecedented rainfall 50-percent worse than previous years.
Perhaps a surprise to no one is that climate change affects–or will affect–us all. But according to
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