Episode Summary:  This short segment is taken from a previous episode that focused on debunking myths about climate change, particularly Myth 9: that climate change doesn’t affect me.

A 2019 poll revealed that only 24% of the respondents believed that climate change would impact them personally. Jenn and Inma dissect this misconception

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Inma Lopez

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.  

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

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Hi, I'm Ima

And hi, I'm Jen.

Which one is, uh, another MIS gem.

This myth is that climate change doesn't affect me.

Oh, because you don't live in planet earth.

exactly.

Very interesting.

Do you think there are people there that believe that?

Apparently, apparently there are.

, and there was actually a poll done in 2019 that that found that only

24% of the respondents believed that climate change would have a great

deal of impact on them which is interesting because as you say, we all

live on this planet and it's already happening and we're already seeing.

Yeah, I think it may be that that poll was made before.

COVID.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, it was,

And then, and then having experience something as small as a

virus being planetary dimensions and affecting almost everyone or everyone.

Uh, I think that changed, uh, our minds about how connected we are.

I think you're.

I think you're right.

And we've had some in our part of the world and in many parts

of the world, we've had some extreme weather experiences.

Um, we had

words that I'd never even heard of before, like heat dome and

atmospheric rivers and, and wildfires

That were super serious.

So, , there have been more and more of these things.

Um, there have been tornadoes in places where there were never tornadoes before

and , so quite some drastic things.

And,\ uh, at king tides, another term that I hadn't heard.

And so if you're living near the ocean and you happen to have a place near

the water and the sea level is rising well, then that is gonna affect you.

Oh, and, and, and in things as, common as the price of food,

mm-hmm

it's rising and it will go, it keep going rising.

And that affects everyone of us

That does too.

And so does, um, more expensive house insurance.

Um, you know, when, when you have to ensure for things like hurricanes,

uh, earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding fires, uh, your house

insurance will go up quite a bit

as well.

So yeah, I would think that directly, we can see that happening

already and affecting all of us.

And if it gets warmer, then you're going to have more costs to

do with cooling your home or cooling your company, your business, um,

to keep air conditioning running, or keep fans going.

Yeah.

Or, well, I hope not many air conditioner machines going around because that

also affects and make things worse.

So,

Yeah.

Another thing, uh, that has been changing our, our warmer temperatures

cause, uh, allergy season to be longer.

yes.

So people suffering with higher pollen counts and more allergy

symptoms as a result because ground level ozone, uh, is part of smog.

and people can feel difficulty breathing and, and things like that too.

So, um, you might not think of that, but that might

be, something that's affecting you.

So.

Things are gonna get worse.

I think we are all clear on that.

living a sea level right now , is to enter in the dangerous zone

of, uh, and then, uh, migration.

It will start happening.

mm.

So all these things is gonna affect all of us,

Water quality.

what quality.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And even things like disruption to travel.

If there's a storm, you know, and you're trying to go somewhere.

yes, exactly.

So it's is we are, we don't want to be, uh, really doom in this, in this, in this,

but we want to be real and, and we want.

Everyone to, to, to know that is gonna affect or is affecting all of us.

It is.

And, and as you said at the beginning, even with food prices, you will

have noticed that food is a lot more expensive everywhere right now.

And, uh, and so we're in this together, we're in this together

and we need to, um, join together

to be able to, , to work towards, reducing.

And slowing down this climate change because it is

affecting everybody who shares

this planet.

Yeah.

Uh, I remember when, uh, few months ago, , and I, someone

was comparing this situation.

Well, comparing a little bit, this situation with when the.

Also, uh, layer was starting to be damaged and we got it on time and

everyone, everyone in the world went at once and it's one of the

things that we did it together.

So, I, I think , it's a bigger issued now, but, , I'm definitely

sure we can do it together.

We can, we can let's do it.

Let's do it.

thanks.

EDMA thanks so

much.

you, Jen.

Thank you.

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