It Didn't Have To be Like This

The MET Office have ominously announced that 2022 was the hottest year on record and the year kept breaking new extreme weather records and scientists warn that extreme weather due to climate change is set to get worse, stating that the 10 years which recorded the highest annual temperature since 1884 have all been since 2002.
In England during three days of the late-July heatwave, 900 more people died than usually do at that time of year as UK temperatures hit 40C for the first time ever, grounding flights, buckling train-lines and causing devastating blazes that destroyed homes.
Europe suffered a record number of wildfires and pollution levels along with its worst drought in 500 years and the World Food Programme called the drought in Africa the world's first climate change-induced famine.
A heatwave in India and Pakistan followed by record-breaking monsoonal rainfall wiped out 50% of some crop yields and displaced 32 million people, destroyed 1.7 million homes, and killed more than 1,700 people.
The climate situation is urgent and has been known and understood by scientists since the 1950s, i picked up the cause in the mid 80s so we have had at least 70 years to do something and for all the COP summits, we have not done enough to give up the air polluting fossil fuels.
The Carbon Dioxide levels are still increasing and we are in a perilous position but you do have to wonder how many disasters will it take for our leaders, the people who can actually bring about the needed changes, to take some meaningful action?
So people will die and land will be taken by the rising sea levels but it really didn't have to be this way, although it looks like it will be.