With prolonged drought and rising temperatures exacerbating events like the recent wildfires in California, British Columbia, Greece and the Arctic, the days of believing the effects of climate change are only to be felt in the future or in far-flung corners of the world are over.
The climate crisis is here, already impacting every part of the globe and causing irreparable damage to communities. North Americans and Europeans may only be starting to feel these impacts personally, but the farmers in places like Bangladesh, Senegal, Gambia and India have been struggling with increasing impacts for years, undermining their crop productions and their ability to feed their families.
Developing countries continue to be disproportionately affected by property damage, displacement and loss of life from climate change impacts, even though they have done the least to create this crisis. This month’s epic floods in Kerala, India, caused by unprecedented levels of monsoon rain, left hundreds dead and forced more than one million people to seek refuge in camps and served as a stark reminder of the stakes.
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