Denying the climate crisis? Still?

In the UK, rails are painted white in some areas to prevent train tracks from buckling in the heat. In the country, rail passengers are also warned to travel only when necessary.

Why? For the first time, the UK has issued the highest level of extreme temperature warnings. These warnings are for England, southern Scotland, and Wales. This red warning is given for the first time. It means that diseases and deaths can occur not only in high-risk groups but also in fit and healthy people. This is due to temperatures exceeding 41C. Precautions should be taken accordingly.

Portugal, Spain, France and Greece are also battling massive forest fires caused by heatwaves exceeding 45C.

Meanwhile, authorities in the French Alps have urged mountaineers to delay their trips to Mont Blanc. This is due to “extraordinary climatic conditions.” There are also drought-induced rockfalls.

The call comes after part of Italy’s largest Alpine glacier thawed due to global warming, toppling and killing 11 people.

_{^{Does anyone still say the climate crisis is bullshit?}}

For those who do not take the climate crisis seriously, these are the concrete parts of the world today. If the necessary precautions are not taken, the climate crisis will infiltrate every aspect of our lives. Transport and energy infrastructure will collapse, unable to withstand extreme weather conditions. Even simple journeys will become increasingly problematic and power cuts will increase dramatically.

As thousands of people struggle with increasing heat and humidity, poisoning cases from food and water pollution will emerge. New diseases strengthened by the heat will also emerge.

The fact that living conditions are getting harder and harder for many will bring along different individual and social problems.

It was a pessimistic picture, I know. But looking at what’s going on today, it can only be naive or stupid to be optimistic about the future without doing anything about it.

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Let’s be clear about one thing. Climate change is not a crisis created by nature. It’s a very serious crisis created by humans. Its consequences are still not taken as seriously as they should be.

Human has learned to live in a balanced way with nature over the centuries. However, this relationship has been turned into an endless source to satisfy the insatiable hunger of consumption. This shift occurred in favor of humanity with the industrial revolution.

In such a short time, nature has become unable to recover the damage inflicted on it by this brutality and to balance itself. And so, this unique balance and harmony that had been going on for thousands of years was broken. Nature has shifted from being clear and consistent to giving more obscure responses. This was demonstrated by unprecedented temperatures, fires, floods and droughts.

Today, the disasters we experience on earth include fires, floods, droughts, and unprecedented storms. These disasters are caused by the disruption of the balance between nature and humans. This disruption favors humans in a very distorted way.

Humans cause significant damage to nature. They are in shaky astonishment and despair regarding the natural disasters happening to them today. However, he has to realize that he caused what happened to him. The solution is still within himself.

_{^{The solution is in us, in individuals!}}

Ignore those who claim our individual impact is small. They may argue that states and institutions should take the main precautions. Remember that individuals and individual demands trigger the good or bad actions of big companies and governments. These entities often work with short-term agendas.

For this reason, we continue to take steps, even if small, forcing our environment to transform and taking responsibility.

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