“If someone were to say there is no climate change, I could not accept this.” Urge, farmer in Cherkos, Ethiopia.
[pullquote align=”right”]If a fire touches your feet, then it is your feet that burn. So if someone else were to say that your feet were not burning, this would be unacceptable.[/pullquote]
For Urge and the members of his community in Cherkos, the time for debating whether there is a climate crisis is over.
The community of Cherkos and families like Urge’s, know first-hand the devastation that the climate crisis is causing. The impact on their rainy seasons has meant a shortage of food and lack of self-sufficiency which is frustrating.
As Urge says, ‘if a fire touches your feet, then it is your feet that burn. So if someone else were to say that your feet were not burning, this would be unacceptable.’