In Yorkshire, Kevin and Catherine Lorryman’s bungalow, home to three generations, was destroyed by floods after Storm Jorge. In the Bahamas, 10-year-old Torres lost his home, his father, his school, his future, to Hurricane Dorian. In Afghanistan, five-year-old Badro’s family were forced from their home by drought and conflict. Poor and desperate, Badro’s parents engaged her to marry a man 30 years older than her.
This is the reality of climate change. Three stories, out of innumerable personal tragedies. Women, men and children, their lives devastated by the actions of others. It’s a crisis. It’s also a moral failure on a cataclysmic scale. And it’s happening now.
Don’t hurt people. Don’t kill them, tear them from home or family. Few would deny these moral principles. But we’re not living by…