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What should we be doing?
Heatwave and hose pipe bans — a real reminder segued between the news?
Starting this week’s letter, the sun has gone, replaced by a menacing uniform, dark grey sky. More rain is forecast. Lots of it. A stark contrast from the Costa-Del-Sol weather, we’ve all been enjoying, or not, for weeks.
I’ve started asking people I meet on the golf course what their thoughts are on our climate? Hopefully, not in an annoying know-it-all sort of way, because I know very little. I’ve also refrained from irritating, when the sun is out in full force on balding pates, switching attention to my own survival, finding available shade and refreshment between swings.
I’m curious. The media, broadly speaking, seems to have accepted that change is upon us, which is unsurprisingly still at odds with parts of the current government, still clinging to flat earth society rhetoric, or relegating any importance and action to the next government in several more years of wasted time.
Reported news on this year’s heatwave has often referred briefly to macro level climate forces, delivered in a we’ve-known all along tone, and everyone has to get comfortable with longer, hotter spells.
