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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Guardian community team

People in the US: tell us how the climate crisis has affected your life in small ways this year

Smoke from a wildfire hangs over Yosemite national park.
Smoke from a wildfire hangs over Yosemite national park. Photograph: Gabrielle Canon

The climate crisis is reshaping our lives: extreme weather events are intensifying, extinctions are accelerating and the urgency for both adaptation and intervention only increase.

But there are also the smaller, more personal impacts. Perhaps it’s not being able to fish with your kids in the place where your childhood memories were made because the river has dried up. Maybe it’s not being able to gather around a campfire in the summer, due to wildfire risks and restrictions. It can be the loss of a favorite tree, a personal sacrifice you’ve made for the greater good, or a change you’ve observed through the seasons.

We want to hear about how these shifts showed up in your everyday lives this year, and to note the ways people across the US are responding to, grieving for, or marking the losses that may not make the headlines.

Have you lost something special or personally felt changes caused by the climate crisis? Tell us about it.

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