I am . Here’s how climate change is likely to shape the rest of my life.

Heat & extremes are the new normal

Recent years have been record-hot. Expect more “once-in-a-century” floods and heat domes to show up as regular news. Cooling costs and lost outdoor time rise.

Real-world data is below.

Insurance & risk shift

Insurers raise rates or exit high-risk areas in many regions; mortgages and rents increasingly reflect climate exposure.

Temperature anomalies vs 1951–1980

Paris targets (1.5 °C/2.0 °C) are defined vs 1850–1900; GISTEMP’s baseline is 1951–1980 (≈0.2–0.3 °C lower).

Permanent 1.5 °C breach risk

Multi-year averages likely sit near or above 1.5 °C over pre-industrial, raising the odds of compounding heat and humidity that strain public health and labor.

Coasts get louder

“Nuisance” floods stack with storm surges. Ad-hoc relocations (“managed retreat”) start in more places.

Sea level change since 1993 (mm)

Satellite altimetry record; seasonal signals removed (NASA MEaSUREs, Column 12).

Food & water stress bite

Simultaneous crop failures become more common when heat and drought cluster. Prices swing; rationing appears during bad years even in wealthy countries.

Smoke, heat, outages

Wildfire smoke and extreme heat drive indoor summers in many regions. Energy and logistics disruptions interrupt jobs, schooling, and care.

The hard question

“If you have kids, they ask why you brought them into this world.” You might not have a good answer. That’s part of the honesty here: facing trade-offs between hope, action, and responsibility—then doing the most good you can with clear eyes and a steady hand.

Coastal risk re-maps cities

With multi-decadal sea-level rise, storm tides reach farther inland. Some districts are protected by expensive barriers; others are abandoned.

Ecosystems flip

Many coral reefs are gone; forests shift toward savanna in some regions. Fisheries, tourism, and local food webs change permanently.

Compounding risk world

Heat, water, crops, coasts, ecosystems—multiple systems strain at once. Not everywhere, not all the time, but often enough to define the decade.

The direction is not in doubt; the scale depends on choices. Your world will differ from the one you were born into—how much depends on what people do, together, starting now.