For many in America, 2021 has been the year that the climate crisis matured from a worrying abstraction into a very present catastrophe, with much of the country ensnared in a vicious cycle of heatwaves, drought, wildfires and flooding.
As ever, the effects have not been evenly distributed. Poorer people are the worst hit – more likely to work outside, with less access to air conditioning and public services, and fewer resources to relocate to safer ground. But the emergency has never felt so close for so many people.
The homes we’ve known are changing, inevitably and irreversibly. We want to hear what this looks and feels like. We’re asking Guardian readers all over the US to share the tangible ways the climate crisis has affected their communities and their lives. We are particularly interested in hearing about how things have changed since 2015, when the global community last came together to commit to limiting the emissions responsible for heating the planet.
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