Bendt Thagard of Flensburg, Germany is a Shipping Agent for Dangaard. He works on booking transports, completing the transport documents and leaflets, assigning package coordination, as well as coordinating internal transport and deliveries and pick-ups. He is happily married with two sons and a daughter. In his daily life, the climate of his workplace has become increasingly more stressful. He doesn't get out of the office much and since he lives in the city the temperature is climbing much higher, as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in the country's rural areas. This is thanks to the "urban heat island effect." This effect refers to when a natural landscape is replaced with buildings and asphalt streets that absorb and store more heat, this causes cities to warm more and more than surrounding areas.
This area lays 15m above sea level and the climate generally sits at a warm and mild temperature. A significant part of the climate is the rainfall, even with strong precipitation during the dry months. The usual annual temperature is 47.3 °F with the rainfall being around 29.1 inches per year. With the heat rising in the dry seasons have stretched out and for people like Bendt, this turns his office cubical into an oven. Bendt is sweating over a paper on Apple Computers being shipped to the U.S. and when looking at the route a drop of sweat falls on the paper. He lets it dry, finishes it and heads to get it approved by the boss.
Bendt's boss is in a meeting the receptionist says. He sits in the waiting room and reads on his phone The Guardian article about Naomi Seibt, an "anti-Greta' activist who had spoken at an event at U.S. right-wing conference who has questioned the scientific consensus on the climate crisis. After a few minutes of reading his boss calls Bendt into his office. He hands in the shipment plans and they discuss the melting of the ice caps and how new routes have open across the world. Then they turn to the point of air transport and how the heating of air has affected the lift of the plane carrying their shipments. Bendt brings up the arguments of Naomi Seibt and other skeptics across the world. He argues how they can't seem to see clear evidence. Bendt and the boss talk about their families and a few hours later and leave for the weekend.
Bendt reaches home and has dinner with his family. He spends time with his sick son Theo who has been having breathing and heart issues since the increased heat in Germany. Bendt is fearful that with climate change his son will only get worse, he wishes to get relocated to a branch of his work located somewhere cooler in climate. Yet he knows he can't run, this is affecting the planet as a whole and even Greenland full of ice is melting and heating up. Bendt doesn't know what to expect next and he fears that Germany will soon burn with the rest of the world.
https://www.jobindex.dk/jobsoegning?q=shipping
https://en.climate-data.org/europe/germany/hamburg/hamburg-69/
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-change-affecting-germany
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/28/naomi-seibt-anti-greta-activist-white-nationalist-inspiration
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/19/climate-change-spells-turbulent-times-ahead-for-air-travel