Finland, the fridge unplugged
1987. The first year I remember and witness. The snowdrift looks huge since I'm small but let's forget about my subjective judgement. In reality, the snowdrift was still huge. There was 1,5 metres of snow in February and the Christmas was white.1993. White Christmas was a certainty.
1996. There was snow to ski on but people in the neighbourhood had a topic to discuss: will the snow come until Christmas? That would be nice, our children are looking forward to seeing white christmas. Yeah, and we've got plans to go skiing over the weekend...
1999. The local skiing center is investing in fancy new lifts at the same time when the amount of snow coming down from the sky has fallen dramatically. My height: 1,60 M. In 1987 there was snow as much as 1,50 M. I don't remember I saw such huge snowdrift in 1999.
2002. People are gossiping. It's been raining in Central Finland in December and February. A young mother in the neighbourhood doesn't know what kind of clothes to buy for the children - rain coat or ordinary winter pants.
2003. I'm off in Norway where it rains in the winter too. Going back to Finland for X-mas break. Suddenly extremly freezing, -30 Celcius, three days later +2 Celcius. Sweating in my winter pants, but insist to accept that I could well wear a T-shirt in early January and go out for a walk.
2005. Grass found in the back yard.
2006. Living in northern Finland. It is a part of the globe where people are proud of being survivors in the chilly climate. It's +7 degrees Celcius, December 2nd 2006. No hope for going to ski. Raining.
Climate change has proven to me it is happening. Very few people have the courage to care about it. We need to do something. Some people say we need to do sth to save the planet but it is not so. We need to do sth in order to save the planet where WE can live. If we destroy the planet where human being is able to live, we'll just leave it to some other species stronger than us.
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