The past few years have brought some of the worst wildfires the world has ever seen. Between the United States, Australia, and Siberia, fires have eaten up millions of acres of land. Siberia’s 2021 fires alone burned more than all the others around the world combined, destroying more than 21 million acres of boreal forest — an area about the size of Serbia.

With the pandemic insanity of the last couple of years, you may have missed a controversy that toppled the head of the Sierra Club last summer.

About 21 million people live in Mumbai, India. Between 2 and 3 million of them live within a half a mile from the Arabian Sea. And climate scientists predict that 80 percent of the land they live on may be under water by 2050 due to global warming.

What do you do when your once-dry village suddenly turns into an island? When your only source of fresh drinking water disappears, and dangerous snakes, alligators, and hippos unexpectedly live too close for comfort?