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What are we witnessing right now as far as climate? >> it's something really new. it's a change in the landscape. having sandstorms in this kind of landscape is not something usual and having the effects of sandstorms shows that nature is changing, the environment is changing, and the climate change is affecting this area more than the rest of madagascar. >> rainfall patterns have grown erratic. and scientists say temperatures in the region are rising at double the global rate. >> it's not just this year, it's building up, you know? it's year after year that the rains are less and that people ...

To use this word �*crisis�* "in connection to climate change, �*cause to most people, "this is something that's happening in slow motion." of course, in planetary time, it's very real and immediate, but to most people, they wake up in the morning and their lives are not immediately affected every single day by the changing climate. how do you make sure, here in kew, that people understand the urgency of the reality? tim is right. this is a really key challenge, this sense of urgency and the impact it's having on people here. and, of course, "here" is an affluent, temperate country. but e...

Change, �*cause to most people, "this is something that's happening in slow motion." of course, in planetary time, it's very real and immediate, but to most people, they wake up in the morning and their lives are not immediately affected every single day by the changing climate. how do you make sure, here in kew, that people understand the urgency of the reality? tim is right. this is a really key challenge, this sense of urgency and the impact it's having on people here. and, of course, "here" is an affluent, temperate country. but even here, people are affected. look at the extraordinary r...

And, of course, "here" is an affluent, temperate country. but even here, people are affected. look at the extraordinary rainfall patterns we've had in london just in the last month or two. more widely, look at the fires in greece or australia, look at the climate drought and the extreme temperatures in canada. so, it is starting to impinge on people, even in affluent, temperate communities. how do we influence people? we tell powerful stories. we explain the consequences. for example, it's striking that 50% of all human calories come from just three plant species — rice, maize and wheat. man...

And, of course, "here" is an affluent, temperate country. but even here, people are affected. look at the extraordinary rainfall patterns we've had in london just in the last month or two. more widely, look at the fires in greece or australia, look at the climate drought and the extreme temperatures in canada. so, it is starting to impinge on people, even in affluent, temperate communities. how do we influence people? we tell powerful stories. we explain the consequences. for example, it's striking that 50% of all human calories come from just three plant species — rice, maize and wheat. man...