There’s a lot about the discourse surrounding climate change in Canada that’s absolutely bone-dead stupid, but one idea that badly needs to be beheaded and have a stake driven through its heart is that climate change would actually be good for Canada as a nation because it would mean that more of the country could sustain large populations.
maybe if it was phrased in terms of refugees from Florida crossing the great lakes on those blasted swamp boats preceded by a swarm of gators the true horror of the situation would start to become apparent.
when it hit above 43 degrees celsius in Sydney, weird things started happening. And by weird, I mean that bats. Just. Die. They can’t regulate their heat anymore. They just fall down and die. Loads of them. Birds stop singing, because it’s too hot to sing. The world just goes quiet.And there’s me, standing there, thinking: well, more people need to know about this. There’s the abstract effect of climate change, but there’s that back of the neck chill, that absolute atavistic *fear* that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong when *the birds don’t sing anymore*.That’s what climate change is. Yes, yes, sea levels rising, increased instability due to food security and everything else.But it’s going to get too hot for the birds to sing.That should scare the fuck out of you.
