Do you love watching the Olympic games? Then you should hate climate change, because it’s threatening the future of sports as we know it.
Global warming is making it harder to choose Olympic host countries because it’s becoming too hot for the necessary snow for the Winter Olympics and extreme heat is affecting the ability of athletes at the Summer games to safely compete. As a result, the number of cities that can host the Olympics is narrowing.
Pollution is already making it difficult for sporting events like the Olympics. In the past, cities like Beijing struggled with high levels of air pollution.
In Paris this year, the Seine River failed to meet European pollution standards more than half of the days leading up to the Olympic games (even though the Mayor of Paris took a plunge himself to try and prove the river was safe to swim in.)
Now the men’s triathlon has been postponed due to high levels of pollution. If we do not address the root causes of pollution and climate change, it will only get worse from here.
The Olympics are a reminder of why we need to build a global coalition to tackle the climate crisis head-on. Team USA is doing our part thanks to the work of the Biden/Harris Administration and SEEC members in Congress, but we have to keep making progress.
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