Taking responsibility
Alison Leonard looks back at Christmas 2015 and reflects on the past year
It is strange to look at our photographs of Christmas Day last year. All I see in our faces is a kind of innocence. It was the last day that I knew climate change was the overwhelming issue of our time but still assumed it wouldn’t actually affect me. Of course, I knew that the valley we had just moved into was regularly flooded; members of our family had lived right next to Hebden Water, which flows into the River Calder. They had heard the wartime warning siren at the time of the last flood, in June 2012.
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