• Snow is very noticeable. It’s weather that is very pretty and visual, but also impacts your daily life.

    I remember how many snow days I had back in school, and how kids now often don’t have any

    It’s very visceral and memorable weather - most other things are vague and easy to write off, or they’re a life changing catastrophe that is basically up to luck.

    If snow is what makes people understand, viscerally, “things are changing very, very fast”, then that’s fine

    That’s where we are right now. People generally believe it’s happening, but only intellectually - they have no sense of scale or urgency. Most still think they’ll be gone by the time it gets bad, and that it’s a long term problem.

    Any and every way you can make people understand this is a “right now” problem helps

    •  bstix   ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) 
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      110 months ago

      Yeah I’m living through it right now. We’ve never had this much snow since I was a kid. I encourage my kids to go out and dig into it like I dug in to it forty years ago and I’m trying to explain and hope that they understand the oddity of it and not just taking it for granted whether or not it comes again every year or never again from here on.