Climate Change: The Hot Topic of the Summer

Michael Yamaguchi

July 2021

As of today, July 24, 2021, I believe climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces. It is far more important than the billionaires’ toy spaceships and poses far more severe long-term impacts than the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, I make the decision to place this at the top of my school club’s website. This is because it needs to be addressed, as it has been in our nation’s top news sources. In the New York Times, the science section reporting on climate change is prioritized over the health, sports, and arts sections. In the LA Times, it is further prioritized— ‘Climate & Environment’ is located only after its business and California sections.

I feel obligated to report on how humanity’s mark scars the planet, as we leave behind the ashes of the once sustainable Earth. I will be compiling the work of creators from contemporary media and sharing their content out of necessity to criticize and elaborate upon the action on climate change.

Firstly,

“Front-line communities affected by mining are asking the rest of us: What sacrifice are you making?”

Well,

California regulators again delay health rules to protect people near oil and gas sites

So clearly, it is

frustrating environmental advocates who say communities can’t wait any longer for change.

Articles titled:

Montana’s Famed Trout Under Threat as Drought Intensifies

Could instead be titled:

The world as a whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change nor live with it.

And perhaps interactive articles labeled:

A Climate Change Guide for Kids

Could also address the problem causers:

The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.

The people ask:

What The World's Richest People Are Doing To Fight Climate Change

But frankly…

no investment in sustainability or climate change projects have been disclosed so far.

While topics address:

But can it generate the political will to see it through?

Putting a Price on Pollution

We should focus on actually stopping

“The Bad Future”

Or else

life will get harder

Why does the kid’s article above on climate change cover such a topic so concisely and elegantly, while the top news story shown is:

Man who made fun of vaccination efforts on social media dies of Covid

stating,

“I got 99 problems but a vax ain't one"

In that same month and much more obscured,

‘Hard to comprehend’: Experts react to record 121 degrees in Canada

It is hard to comprehend. But I am not the only one

speechless and deeply concerned about the future of the planet.

“words fail,” tweeted Bob Henson, a meteorologist and freelance journalist

…

From Claire Martin, a meteorologist for Environment Canada, the country’s weather and climate agency: “Words fail me”

…

world weather records expert Maximiliano Herrera admits, “I just pinch my skin to make sure it’s not a dream”

…so while our media and leaders continue to fail us, we need to wake up. Start reading.

Ironically, start with the A Climate Change Guide for Kids, not because you are a child, but because our current adults are acting childish.

The quotes used are linked to their respective articles. Feel free to read a few.

Well, I’m sure you couldn’t read most of these articles without a subscription account. But that’s an issue for another time.

For now, just use a burner email to read these articles and share them, since, as AOC put best, “We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns.”

Thanks for reading, and hopefully, you’re at least a little more aware of the crisis around us.