From the article: "Most sport happens outside, and outside is getting harder to live with. A third of grassroots football clubs in the UK are already losing around six weeks to two months of the year from flooding, cricketers are collapsing in heat and at global events like the Tokyo Olympics, marathons have been moved hundreds of miles north and brought forward to dawn to dodge the heat.
"The climate and nature crisis stops being abstract when you see these very real impacts on how we play sport and exercise."
This article is about a short, action-focused documentary, hosted by Chris Packham, about how the crisis is moving faster than predicted, but which we can solve if we act fast enough. The film is spearheading a major push for [UK] government action on a scale to match.
The article links at the end to a free online showing of the film, only for sports fans, on 30 April – it can normally only be seen at community screenings. Although the documentary focuses on the UK, sports people from outside the UK are welcome to attend.
by Caffe44