When It Comes To Climate Change, There’s No Such Thing As A New Normal

Alejandro de la Garza, Time
Wed, 07/19/2023 - 2:20pm

Melanie Guttmann, co-founder of Letzte Generation (Last Generation), a German climate group, once spent six days in jail after being arrested during a protest. She told me it was one of the worst experiences of her life. “I just wanted to get out of there and have a peaceful life, spend some time with the people I love, start a family.” But ultimately, she says, it was worth it, and she’d be willing to be in jail even longer if it might make a difference: “I started to realize that no matter if I’m in prison or not, I will never have those things because the climate crisis destroyed everything I dreamed of for my future.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] An unremitting stream of climate disasters have kept her words rattling around in my head since I spoke with her last Thursday.

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