The climate crisis is all around us.
There is more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere right now than at any previous point in human history. Global temperatures are warming as a result, the effects of which are both alarming and widespread.
Indonesia, for instance, recently announced plans to search for a new capital city with almost half of Jakarta sitting below sea level. Oceans globally have been rising at the fastest rate in 3,000 years as polar ice caps continue to melt, causing the already overcrowded city to sink roughly 25 centimetres every year.
At the same time, average wildlife populations around the world have dropped 60 percent in little over 40 years, owing to deforestation and fundamental habitat changes to ecosystems such as unpredictable weather patterns. The 2010s were the hottest decade on record, evidenced by 2019 which saw 99 tropical storms and 6.7 million people being displaced from their homes because of the rise in the number of natural disasters.