In the Northern Hemisphere in 2017 and 2018 brought several destructive hurricanes to the shores of North America, the Caribbean, and throughout the Pacific rim. Such extreme weather events are predicted to get more common and more severe with increasing climate change.
Several participating classes in the ISCFC were or are in the path of these storms and we hope for the best for them, their families and communities.
We would love to hear from students affected directly and indirectly by extreme weather events, and also any students who have been following the news this summer.
What are your thoughts about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events? Has this hurricane season increased your concern about climate change or not? Do you think that US citizens and residents (and others in the region) will take climate change more seriously now?
Extreme Weather >
Extreme weather and its effects on poorer communities
Extreme weather is dangerous for all of us, but people living in developing countries and poorer neighbourhoods are disproportionately affected by these events. They will not have the money and or resources to repair the damage the weather does to their homies, cities, etc. As well as the injuries and deaths, the injured may not be able to be cared for properly. If we can work to reverse climate change and its effects we can protect people in developing and poorer countries.
Reversing climate change effect will be super difficult, and will take maybe even hundreds of years. We can works towards it but it won't be easy. To the conversation of how it will effect the less fortunate, i agree. We can maybe even make a petition to put s certain percentage of tax money towards it when the weather gets more serious. But the main issue with that would be that there would be a possibility that they will have to raise taxes. Will may cause some disagreements between the government and the people who live in the area.