Ryan’s Story

I try to gather a sense of climate change through memory.

Climate change makes me worried about our animals and species on earth and how long they have left.

I am sensing climate change through the increase in extreme weather.

In my audio recording, I speak about my experience growing up competitively skiing.

Cape Town is usually very rainy but a few years ago they experienced intense water shortages.

In my hometown of Beaver, PA, coal and steel production was historically extremely important sectors of employment.

They make me feel sad and upset that local leaders are so glib about impending threat.

It was depressing to experience a beautiful park for the first time and see how fragile the ecosystem is.

While there, I learned about how these farmers who had lived there for their entire lives were having to adapt their food growth to an increasingly arid climate.

My family huddled up in one room with air conditioning and even with it, it was still 80 degrees in there.