The End of Seasons?

Extreme temperatures and events such as Hurricane Daniel tell us we are approaching a point of no return. There is a good chance that in 2023, we will exceed the 1.5°C limit [and we have exceeded it].
 

Juan Bordera – Antonio Turiel

We take such pride in our enormous technical advances that we have formed a kind of dogma: technology will always come to the rescue of progress. But we hardly want to face an increasingly evident feeling. This locomotive of history we are travelling in is more like a bullet train, and it is going so fast that there are hardly any stations left for nature and all of us on it to stop at. We are already feeling it: in our sweaty skin, in the tropical sleepless nights that go on forever, in the crop failures that drive up the cost of living, in the fires, floods, hurricanes and hailstorms that are getting stronger and more frequent. And this is only the beginning. We have stepped so far on the gas that the atmosphere is becoming unbreathable, and the fourseasons are already looking like two. The bullet train is taking on an increasingly perverse double meaning.

More wood. More coal. More oil. More minerals, even if there are not enough to go around. More and faster. More progress and, of course, more growth. Always. To infinity. Consequently, anomalies and extreme phenomena are also increasing. And now September is already another month of summer. And October is on its way to becoming one, too.

The climate situation on the planet is anything but ordinary...

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