The Planet Is Burning

Extra Holly
6 min readJul 28, 2023

We knew this was going to happen and yet somehow did nothing.

Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash

When I was in high school, I watched An Inconvenient Truth with my parents one night. You know, Al Gore’s climate change documentary.

I still remember the feeling of going to school the next day, looking around and just feeling complete dread. How could it BE that scientists and governments knew that global warming was an imminent danger…

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Extra Holly

Internet enthusiast. Very into my dog and learning new things. Overthinker, pattern-recognizer. Late-dx neuroqueer.