Ventura vs. the climate crisis

The Earth is constantly changing, as it has been since its very creation. Ice wraps around it, then melts, meteors strike, volcanoes birth new islands and tectonic plates break apart whole continents. Change is nothing new, but the rate in which it happens has become unnaturally faster.

Climate change is a hot topic (literally) that is melting ice landscapes and causing extinction. On a more local level, Ventura’s flowers are blooming much earlier than expected. In fact, it’s all happening several weeks earlier than the anticipated Equinox, the scientifically set time in which the sun’s rays most directly hit the equator, causing changes to happen with plants and animals. You may be more familiar with the term “Spring.”

However, these types of reactions from nature have been popping up in early February, with warmer temperatures, blooming flowers and bugs shifting their usual schedule to accommodate the plants. This has many reactionary events such as the shift in seasons and the timing of Earth’s natural rhythms…

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