Witness
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The ability to fly quickly and cheaply comes at a heavy cost to people who live near airports. The noise of a take-off can be heard ten miles away.
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Reports presented at COP26 indicate predict 2.4 degrees increase in average temperatures since 1850. This would be enough to submerge this Kent beach permanently.
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The soft white chalk cliffs of Sussex are especially vulnerable to higher seas and more intense storms.
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Once this was a thriving lido. Now it is abandoned to the rising sea.
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The seawall at Climping in West Sussex has been undermined and breached. Now the sea chews away at the farmland behind.
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Pollution in Chichester Harbour.
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Rising seas will inundate the coast of Sussex, where I live. This is already a reality for many island communities.
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The car is not in the river, it’s on the road.
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Dead tree.
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Final approach, Gatwick Airport