THE FIVE QUESTIONS
Across the Mediterranean, crops are failing, drought and floods are affecting vast swathes and the olive harvest has, to all intents, just failed for the second successive year which now presents a very real threat for the future.
These are the five climate related questions we will ask as many people as possible as we travel across the region.
By asking the same questions to everyone, we hope to build a complete picture of how climate change is viewed by those on the ground with real, daily, lived experience.
- What changes have you seen in the climate in the last 10 years?
- How has this affected your and your family’s way of life?
- What effect has this had on your business?
- What changes have you had to make already and are planning to make in the future?
- How do you see the future?
Over our first 75 days travelling across N France, N Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Sicily, Italy and France we asked these five questions many times to people we met along the way.
The responses are being written up and will be published as soon as we have completed the second leg of trip across Spain and Portugal from 26 September to 5th November 2024.
Some of what we heard is uplifting, some pessimistic, a lot is poignant but the outlook is encouraging and worrying in equal measure. Watch this space...