Cricket is natural choice to be a world leader on climate change | The Spin

The sport has an bond with the land that few other field sports do and Thursday's game at Lord's can put the environment centre stageSign up for The Spin or re-subscribe hereIn September 2017 Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of Dominica, stood up in front of the UN general assembly. "Eden is broken," he said.Skerrit had travelled to New York from his devastated island nation, battered to bare-root nakedness by Hurricane Maria, which spat out homes and lives, leaving behind flooding, landslides and a crumpled infrastructure. The category five storm splintered the island's ancient forests, a Unesco world heritage site, ripping away the lush canopy to reveal a broken, brown reality. Continue reading...