Look outside and what do you see? If you’re lucky, you might be surrounded by lush greenery and blue skies, or maybe you’ll look out onto a grey, built-up street. Whatever the chances are, everything will look normal – nothing will strike you as being particularly peculiar, and it certainly won’t seem as if the world is ending. But the truth is, our planet is changing – it’s heating up, and quickly, too. Of course, we’re aware that our seas are flooded with plastic, and that the meat and dairy industries are leaking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but it’s easy to live our day-to-day lives and forget about the issues that our world is facing, because they don’t appear to affect our lives directly. As the circle of life continues, we’re left to wonder what kind of world our children will see when they reach our age, and whether they can look forward to a stable, steady future, or one with unpredictable weather, famine, and elevated levels of crime and war.
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