I can’t enjoy the weather any more!
By Fleur
@Fleura (29097)
United Kingdom
March 14, 2019 9:14am CST
Twenty years ago, weather was something I relished. Hot summer days were glorious, windy spring weather made me want to run about, winter flooding was just another interesting challenge to work around.
Now though pretty much any sort of weather seems to hark of impending apocalypse. A warm spring? A windy March? Hot summer days? Stormy autumn weather? All seem to be no longer natural changes in the seasons to be enjoyed but grim harbingers of irreversible climate change that will make the Earth uninhabitable to humans.
Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2019.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
14 Mar 19
I find that a lot of the focus for tackling this is firmly fixed on the wrong place.
While we are being warned of dire consequences if we don't shove our plastic bottles into the correct bin or switch to re-usable coffee cups etc. the likes of China and India are polluting on a national scale as if it's going out of fashion (which, to be fair, it is!!)
Add to that the fact that retailers clearly haven't got the environmental memo, when it comes to the ridiculous amounts of packaging they use, and what we are being bludgeoned into doing as individuals is like urinating into a force 10.
We need world leaders with integrity and an interest that goes beyond their own pockets.
I won't be holding my breath.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
15 Mar 19
Surely. We cannot see the Milky Way anymore because of pollution, and pollution is often making the air unsafe to breathe.
@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Mar 19
I do not think we can speak of climate change because a winter is more sweet or more cold. With only 1°C more than 50 years ago, it is difficult to tell, but we know that it might turn soon to a disaster if we do not do anything to limit global warming in the years coming. I read that we have 12 years left for that, it is really not a lot of time.
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@Marilynda1225 (79592)
• United States
14 Mar 19
We have had some pretty crazy weather lately
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
15 Mar 19
And not enough people seem interested in doing anything really important to change things. We plan ion being in London and York in the fall.
@Hannihar (129379)
• Israel
15 Mar 19
@Fleura
Last year it seemed like the winter that usually ends here around April or May and spring arrives lasted longer than it should have and brought us very weird weather that I did not want to be out in. It is hard to explain but it was very weird weather.
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@DianeBorg (784)
• Malta
15 Mar 19
Here in Malta we are having lots of strong wind, last time we had a medicane (Mediterranean hurricane), that went up to force 11, I think it only happened about 40 years ago and even in summer it is windy now.
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@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
14 Mar 19
Yes...weather changes are so weird these days
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@janethwayne (5193)
• Philippines
14 Mar 19
It is confusing I agree that's why it is important to take care of our environment.
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