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Pocket Change

Check your pockets to understand climate change

Ruth Glendinning
8 min readJul 15, 2023

I’ve spent decades incubating and developing huge system-changing ideas. What I’ve learned is that most people can’t resonate with those concepts until they can visualize how it will affect their own pockets.

One of the biggest issues we are all facing is the changing climate. It’s hard to comprehend on a global level, but becomes very real in our daily interactions with weather phenomena.

No matter what you believe the source is, the results are here.

2023: The Summer That Changes the Story

This is the summer climate change arrived, with a vengeance. But next? Next will be the coming age of climate regret. Why didn’t we act fast enough to stop this? Why were seduced by nonsense instead — like far right politics, which turned right around and only made the problem worse? Why did we let things get this bad? This bad won’t mean: as bad as things are now. It’ll mean much worse.

Imagine just three summers ago. Now imagine another three summers from now. Now five. Now ten. The speed and scale and fury with which our climate is undergoing profound transformations is leaving even scientists shocked and bewildered — and the average person is squarely in the crosshairs. So go ahead, imagine ten summers from now. How much worse will things be if all that happened this summer’s already happening, and just…goes on…intensifying?The Coming Age of Climate Regret by

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Ruth Glendinning
Ruth Glendinning

Written by Ruth Glendinning

Community Architect // Published Poet // Future Story Lab // Anti-Fragile Playbook // S.L.O.W. Tech // #womenswork Buy my book! https://a.co/d/5MG47Di

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