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Today has been an unusually hot day, one in which you wish you could drink a gallon of water and it not be dangerous. It didn’t yet occur to me the importance of a rising\/volatile climate until I looked outside and saw grass beginning to turn yellow on my neighbors lawn. Seeing this decrepit scenery, it made think of our garden at KPU and it filled me with concerns about watering it. While being worried about the garden is an entirely valid concern, the threat of global warming becomes a lot more profound when we look at it in the macro-context. According to Rob white “Global warming is rapidly and radically transforming the biophysical world in ways that will continue to have massive ramifications for humans, specific ecosystems, and animal and plant species” (White, 2018, pg. 124). These ramifications are certainly tangible, as I sweat while typing this article and not too long ago, a vicious heat wave claimed the lives of 619 people in British Columbia alone (<\/span>https:\/\/science.gc.ca\/site\/science\/en\/blogs\/science-health\/surviving-heat-impacts-2021-western-heat-dome-canada<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0I\u00a0scarcely\u00a0remember my time during the event, however what I do remember I would not\u00a0wish\u00a0on my worst enemy. The heat was so intense that fans became ineffective, and\u00a0event\u00a0to an extent counterproductive as they instead of blowing\u00a0cold air, they blew\u00a0hot air.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u00a0have to\u00a0credit gardening to this green criminological perspective because, without the garden I would have never\u00a0given consideration to\u00a0the powers of global warming despite bearing the discomforts of it myself. By bearing the responsibilities\u00a0of\u00a0gardening\u00a0it has\u00a0opened up\u00a0diverse perspectives for me to events that might not\u00a0otherwise would\u00a0have connected to me.\u00a0I also\u00a0have to\u00a0admittedly\u00a0say that\u00a0I\u00a0much enjoyed the rainy days of the gardening\u00a0project,\u00a0so it comforted me to the idea of the project not requiring\u00a0particularly\u00a0a lot\u00a0of\u00a0maintenance.\u00a0The\u00a0unusually\u00a0hot day\u00a0has\u00a0sort of shattered\u00a0that expectation and has\u00a0helped me\u00a0to become more\u00a0Intune\u00a0with the criminological harms that occur within the context of green\u00a0criminology.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This also then leads to another important consideration, that being that climate change does not happen by it self, as accordingly “Because the level of natural resource production is declining as we increase production, the biosphere will not be able to sustain current production levels, even while technology innovations make production more sustainable (seen in the manifestation of global problems such as climate change). The idea that we are increasing the footprint is highly consistent with the treadmill analogy. That is, ecological disorganization is accelerating over time under capitalism”(pg. 14). So really the small, maybe even menial concerns that we may have come from large macro factors.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To conclude, having the responsibility for the\u00a0garden at KPU has opened my horizons for new perspectives\u00a0and has\u00a0helped\u00a0me to understand harms at\u00a0a much\u00a0larger macro perspective.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n References:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/science.gc.ca\/site\/science\/en\/blogs\/science-health\/surviving-heat-impacts-2021-western-heat-dome-canada<\/p>\n The Treadmill of Crime (2 Treadmill of Production for Green Criminology)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n