The climate crisis is grim, but taking action on it can be an absolute ball | Alice Bell

There is only a small window in which to mitigate the worst effects. So make a change now, and make it one you can stick toIf the prospect of nuclear war wasn't enough, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) picked this week to drop its latest report on the state of the climate crisis.The key findings are bleak, if familiar. Climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly; many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted. Nowhere will be spared. "The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet," said Hans-Otto Pörtner, a co-chair of the working group producing this report. These health impacts are physical - increased chance of dengue fever, for example, or cardiovascular disease - but also mental: the suffering of living through storms, famine, heat stress, and the loss of homes and cultures.Alice Bell is co-director at the climate change charity Possible and author of Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis Continue reading...