Marianna Climate
According to several studies, climate change could cut the world economy significantly in years to come due to record-breaking floods, increased heat, reduced agriculture, droughts, insect outbreaks, etc.
Personally, I see the effects of climate change locally when we have torrential rain instead of snow, because it means banks collapse and roads buckle more often including on the very road in which I live. And I also observe on my walks that when the streams run dry, wildlife must travel further to find a water source. In summer, being a gardener, there is often less rainfall when we need it to increase our crop yields. There are times when it is raining all around Marianna, in Scenery Hill, Centerville, or Washington, but not raining in Marianna. When it finally rains, it may only be on main street and nothing in the outskirts. When your area hasn't seen much rainfall in summer, yet you see plenty of days where dark storms approach, you do a kind a happy dance because it means you may not need to spend hours watering your garden, and that your plants might live after all. The storm passes and you think "Well, maybe tomorrow we'll get that rain", and you look at the 10-day forecast only to be disappointed that no rain is expected.
The point is, there are changes in the climate here and those changes do affect all of us in some way. Perhaps it may be that your municipality has to find county, state, or federal funding to fix a bank that caved in after month-long flooding. This could cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions if it involves repairing a road. Could that money have been used for something else? Will the cost somehow be placed on you?
Here is an interactive map that allows you to see if your hometown, in this case Marianna, is hotter now than when it was when you were born (personally I put in my mother's date of birth instead of my own to see how much hotter her hometown was in 1930 compared to now).
Lastly, if anyone is interested, there are scholarly articles written that can be viewed online in regard to how climate change affects the economy and the environment, in other words, how it affects you/us. Climate change really isn't a subject to be thrown to the wayside as if it is a insignificant subject. The climate affects all of our children's future.
Some Interesting articles in regard to Climate Change:
A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter
What's the Difference Between a rise of 1.5, 2, and 3 Degrees Celsius?
Climate Change and the Individual
Now is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
