07/22 Hindsight is a powerful fucking thing
A highly relevant and just a tad distressing photo gallery from the BBC website shows how the world is changing, thanks to rapid global warming.
It makes you wonder about the human mind, and human behaviour.
People won’t take global warming seriously until they’ve experienced the effects personally. Until their house has been buried in a mudslip caused by excessive flooding, until the summer becomes so hot that it’s almost impossible to breathe, until raised sea levels cause entire cities to be wiped out.
I guess it’s embedded in human nature. We don’t fix things until they’re broken.
From the gallery:
More pests
Tree-eating wood beetles are likely to benefit from a warmer climate and reproduce in ever-increasing numbers.
These images show damage to White Spruce trees in Alaska caused by the pests.
Image: Gary Braasch ©