In all of the COVID-19 problems, and the miracle that is 2020, climate change is no longer a thing on the news. Greta Thunberg is not sailing around the world and everyone has forgotten about the Paris agreement. Except the actual climate didn't get the memo, and our arctic sea is melting away. Lake Ontario is so warm the algae in it has changed color and is visible from space, which is causing problems for the City of Toronto's water purification systems. None of us are protected from a global pandemic and that is a light summer shower compared to what's coming.
I have been in Toronto for just over a decade, so I've researched and verified using other sources to make sure what I see is in fact real. For example, ten years ago winter was distinct. It had a start, and a finish, and long miserable middle. I remember those days vividly as a new migrant from the warm deserts, and how different they are from our current winters. Having temperature differences of over 20 degrees between one week and the next, extreme colds and unusual warmth, are some symptoms of larger changes at play. Tornado warnings in places that had none a decade ago, micro-bursts of rain in July that bring down more water in an hour as the entire season to that point, and farmers outside such radius experiencing droughts.
The climate changes our weather patterns, it affects our water, and it affects our soil. If we stay the course, we have about 50 years of arable land available, which means after that point it will be difficult to grow food. Cultivating the land differently than it is done today will help us grow better food and combat climate change. Food is energy for people and without organic, healthy, nutrient-dense food, we can't survive.
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