The United States at 250 (million)

Today the United States is celebrating the Declaration of Independence signed two hundred and fifty years ago. Since it’s creation the United States has been a increasingly committed to capitalism, which in turn has led to an a human-induced climate crisis.

On the same weekend the United States is celebrating Fourth of July, “extreme temperatures, high humidity and intense sunshine combine under a massive heat dome” that will effect two hundred and fifty million people”. According to Accuweather, this will be the hottest every 4th of July for many people, and every year we set records for temperatures previously never reached on a certain date.

During the unprecedented heat wave at the end of June in Europe thousand of people died.

The climate crisis is not coming for us. It’s already here.

We had the the ability to crate it. Do we have the ability to end it, mitigate it, or change the policies that will continue to crate it?