The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away, writes Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts
Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing uslast week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy, inwardly give thanks that fate picked someone else – and foot on the accelerator.
Cars skittled like bowling pins in urban streets, cars bobbing in rivers of mud, cars turning into death traps. The images from Valencia and other regions of Spain are both shocking and familiar. In Italy last month,where 24 died in floods in Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Governments continue to focus on economic speed rather than climate safety.
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