The Affects of Climate Change

  • Jourdain Kettle-Foster

News outbreaks from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Drastic bushfires and deforestation ruining 88% of it’s land mass. Wildfires searing through Serbia in Eastern Europe. And of course the devastating running story of the traumatic bushfires swarming throughout down-under’s Australia. These distressing events do not just affect the inhabitants of the land destroyed but affect us too as travellers. - Hiking over the past two years has now become unattractive in certain countries due to an increase of hotter temperatures, e.g. the Alps. - Phoenix, USA has seen an increase in its temperature, preventing planes from taking off at it’s Sky Harbour Airport. -The Americas and Caribbean has seen a rise in Hurricanes within the last 3 years ( Jamaica being one of the top “climate hotspots”). Environments are becoming inaccessible due to our materialistic and self-centred lifestyles How can we change our lifestyles to fit an environmental friendly one ?