Women Are Far More Climate-Friendly. So Should They Rule the World?
On the eco-gender gap and what has to change if we want to tackle it (and climate change)
Did you know that heat waves and droughts can cause trees to… scream?
As their roots try to absorb moisture out of the dry ground, they suck air bubbles instead, which then invade their delicate veins, crack them open with an audible pop and, eventually, kill them.
And although unchecked climate change means more than just big trouble for our forests, that alone should be terrifying enough. After all, trees provide the most important element for human existence and all other living things on our planet: oxygen.
But as we move towards a much hotter world — 2023 was the warmest year on record, and this one will likely be even worse — the extreme weather events that wreak havoc on our world will only become increasingly common, killing more than just huge swaths of forests.
And yet, it still doesn’t seem that many people are rushing to take much-needed action to tackle the climate crisis, does it?
The recent COP28 climate summit — hosted in Saudi Arabia, out of all places — failed to acknowledge that phasing out fossil fuels, by far the largest contributors to…
