I now live with a pervasive anxiety of how the climate and biodiversity emergency is affecting the planet and life.
Eltham, VIC
I now live with a pervasive anxiety of how the climate and biodiversity emergency is affecting the planet and life. We are undergoing the lived experience of climate instability in the form of increased extreme weather events and witnessing the battle that living things are undergoing to adapt to a pace of change that they were not evolved for. It is a battle that we are apparently losing in the face of governments and societies being too slow to respond to this threat. Indeed, there are many forces in society who are actively campaigning against urgent action. We need to wake up.
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