“We as individuals and as citizens of the world have a) and obligation and b) the power. We have glorious power to act in our lives and rise above politics, because we cannot just wait for politicians and for governments to put in policies to fight climate change. We can’t wait! We have to get on with it, and there is so much to do.”
“Because carbon pollution is invisible – you can’t see it – it’s been easy to say, well it’s not affecting me really, so I can get on with what I’m doing. That is changing. It is getting hotter. There are more ferocious cyclones and droughts. Climate change is happening, visibly, all around us. Connect this back to plastics in the ocean, food waste and overconsumption: all of it brings an embedded carbon. All of it fuels this thing called climate change.”
“If you look at it on a grand scale: the planet and us in it, then everything is interconnected. Everything! And if one part of the chain falls apart or is weakened then the whole thing can collapse. You cannot have infinite resources on a finite planet, it’s impossible. We are feeling the pressures of this now – the Earth is telling us.”
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