I recently saw a meme being shared on Facebook that made me feel a bit sad, and, if I’m being honest, caused me to chuckle a little at how nonchalant we are when it comes to connecting the dots to global problems. The meme featured a large tent covering the entire coast with the caption ‘Yall could thank me later’. A bit of satire, I suppose, to cushion the discomfort of rising temperatures and what people are facing when it comes to conducting their everyday business in heat that feels fit enough for frying an egg on the road.
It’s normal to overlook rising temperatures in a tropical country like Guyana because indeed what other seasons do we have to compare it to? It always felt to me as if we were made for the heat because we were born into it. But this is excessive heat, which isn’t an exaggeration on anyone’s part.
