it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
"You're too young to remember this, but there used to be so many insects outside that you would have to clean them off the windshield after a long car ride" is the kind of sentence that would have been in a cheesy scifi short story earlier in my life, perhaps submitted to a literary magazine and accepted to show support for its environmentalist message - now it's something I've said in earnest.
The city I was born into has been known for ages as "Cidade da Garoa" aka City of the Drizzle, because it's climate always resulted in frequent drizzles for most of the year, only temperature changing.
In recent year, this nickname is losing the meaning.
The city I live in at the moment, I've been here for nearly two decades. Even i noticed that the rain season and dry season have changed months in the last years, and the rains are slowly becoming worse
I've reblogged this before and it's worth reblogging again.
I'm turning 40 next month. I remember in my lifetime, just a decade ago, when there was still snow in the midwest. Multiple snowstorms a year. I remember all the bugs. I remember the lightning bugs in the summer, all the wailing cicadas in the summer, the dozens and dozens of june bugs gathered around the front porch. All gone. I don't hear cicadas like that anymore. THey used to be so loud you couldn't hear anything, you had to shout over them to be heard. You don't see lightning bugs anymore, except maybe one or two. Bugs all over your windshield, never see that anymore. Snow, what's that? Now people call days in the winter that are 20 or below "unusual" when it's like, that used to be normal. There used to be days below zero or at zero and that was normal. THere used to be snow all the time that stuck around for days and days and days. Gone. It's 70s outside in the winter and people says "it's so nice out!" and I just feel sad and scared because that is NOT NORMAL! I can't believe how fast this happened. I knew climate change was a thing. I learned about it in elementary school and middle school, but for it to unfold in my 20s? My 30s? That fast??? Holy shit.
