Summer 2021 hot, hotter, hotter.

Earth does not heat up, it scorched.
Back to normal? Was it normal how we lived and want to go back to that life?? We (the 30 richest countries in the world) are the ones that grooves and pollute the Earth most. Take the Dutchman's footprint on Earth. According to the Global Footprint Network, which specializes in footprint measurements, an average Dutch has a 6.5 hectares footprint, which means it needs 6.5 hectares to live as we do. And this while only 1.7 hectares per person are available worldwide. If we were to distribute all the space available on Earth fairly among all people, and we also take into account the conservation of global nature/biodiversity, then an average of 1.8 hectares will be available for everyone. When everyone would live as a Dutchman, that's 3.5 Earth. “But it's not the whole story yet”. What it's not included in this story, that's our impact on Earth's biodiversity. Nature disasters such as heavy rain showers, rising sea level, climate refugees, outbreak pandemics. #summer

If something has become clear in recent weeks, it is that the climate crisis has broke out in full force and it will take an immense effort to reverse the tide. From the extreme heat in Canada and the United States where mercury rose above 50 degrees and record temperatures in the Arctic Circle, to the heavy rains that flooded large parts of Limburg, Germany and Belgium. It's warmer than ever measured, causing unprecedented heat waves, drought and severe floods. Millions of animal species are threatened with extinction, and so we risk the destruction of the entire life web. It's a global rise of barely 1°C that causes this life-threatening catastrophe. We are currently dying at 3°C. Can you imagine the desolate and unlivable planet we will leave our children??

The climate passage was removed from the environmental and climate paragraph of the election programme at the VVD Congress in Noordwijkerhout on 19 November last year. A small textual change in itself, but a significant. The adjustment disappeared one of the few explicit remarks about the potentially disastrous effects of climate change on the Netherlands, due to CO2 emissions. The removal was unveiled at the time by Investico's platform for investigative journalism in collaboration with daily Trouw.

The floods in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany were caused by a combination of heavy rainfall and a slow moving storm front. In Belgium and Germany, the water has cost at least 120 people. “It's the result of very humid air in the atmosphere that has wrapped around an almost stagnant front,” says climate scientist Hayley Fowler of Newcastle University in the UK. Both weather phenomena are more common when the earth warms up.

In Lønstrup, one to three meters disappears in the sea every year.
The Danish West Coast is plagued by strong coastal erosion. Residents fear climate change makes the problem worse. In Lønstrup many house disappeared in the sea.
Where the holiday home was about 200 metres from the coast at the sale in 1971, the sea can now be reached with a few steps across a wood chips trail. And the wide beach Løchte played as a child disappeared fifty years later. The sea is now separated from the land by heavy boulders.