Words by Athlyn Cathcart-Keays
Texas is currently under a blanket of snow, and peat is still burning in Arctic Russia after historic forest fires last summer, despite temperatures of -50 celsius. There are no two ways about it: our climate is in crisis, and it’s cities, where the majority of the world’s population resides, that will bear the brunt.
By 2050, 1.6bn urban dwellers will be exposed to extreme temperatures, 570 coastal cities are at risk of extreme sea level rise or flooding, and one in four people on Earth will be living in cities where the availability of food will be majorly impacted by climate change. We’re at a crossroads, and either we can continue in this direction or we take action and steer away from this abysmal future.