With every extreme weather event the climate emergency impacts food security and economic stability and, ultimately, threatening safety and well-being of lives around the globe.
Climate impacts are not a future threat, they are happening now
The most intense impacts of the climate crisis are often experienced by those least responsible for the carbon emissions exacerbating extreme weather events. These communities urgently need empathy, aid, and climate action. The entire global community needs to demand that fossil fuel companies and corporate polluters stop accelerating climate change with reckless, profit-hungry drilling and burning of coal, oil, and gas.
Fossil fuel companies have put profits over people and the planet and will continue to do so while masquerading as friends of the environment — unless we stop them.
If governments don’t take urgent action for a just transition to renewable energy then the climate emergency is only going to get worse, with parts of the world becoming uninhabitable.
Over the past few days, we have witnessed the formation of an extreme weather event of unprecedented intensity in the northeastern Atlantic.
Cyclone Idai has left a path of complete destruction in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Roads, phone lines and homes have been destroyed and lives have been lost.