PSA (with foghorn): Climate change isn’t going anywhere. It’s actually getting more serious by the minute. Climate scientists and activists have been telling anyone who will listen for decades now that we’re essentially turning our planet into a Crockpot. Enterprise even joined the chorus of voices last year, with an issue dedicated to the phenomenon, and we’re back now with another edition to further drive the point home. Keep in mind that climate change doesn’t only consist of global warming: It’s a series of interrelated environmental issues, including rising water levels, extreme weather conditions (like aggressive hurricanes), and changes to wildlife populations and different ecosystems.

When even Europe is complaining about the heat, you know something is very wrong. July 2019 was both the hottest July and the hottest month on record, Time tells us, with progressively rising temperatures almost entirely due to climate change. The heatwave that hit France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain was up to 3°C hotter than it would otherwise have been, due to climate change caused by humans, according to the AFP.

The planet’s diverse ecosystems and non-human inhabitants will be severely impacted: We’re facing a wave of mass extinctions, and could be on the brink of the sixth mass extinction ever to take place in all of human history, according to a landmark UN report. Human activity has increased the likelihood of these extinctions by a factor of 1,000, and now around 1 mn plant and animal species are likely to be wiped out within a few decades. We’re talking everything from insects (which may be annoying but are, you know, essential to ecological stability) to leopards.