THE ENVIRONMENT
You Just Survived the Hottest April Ever
But did the news of these worldwide extreme weather events reach you?
Did you hear that more than a hundred people died in devastating floods in the South of Brazil? The number will likely rise since more than 130 people are still missing in the disaster region.
The Porto Alegre flood is a massive ‘natural’ disaster that made 155,000 people homeless, but you likely entirely missed the news. It drowned in the other news of an overflowing number of extreme weather disasters worldwide. You may have confused the photos of airplanes in a flooded airport with the ones you saw the day before from Dubai Airport. Or was it a flooded airport near Houston the day before?
I have worked on the increasing risks of climate change for several decades. First, as a diplomat, and in the past decade, it has often been the subject of my talks when I worked for international think tanks and as a public speaker.
Like you, I have seen climate change evolve from a predicted future risk to a daily source of humanitarian suffering for millions of people…
