A Year of Climate Action

2020 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning. A year when we come face to face with the stark reality of the climate crisis. 

All the evidence suggests we have to peak global emissions NOW and then completely transform our economy, energy and transport systems to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

For years I have been feeling almost paralysed in terms of how to respond to this reality. Now the climate emergency is unfolding before us, and I’m looking for a way to deal with the ecological grief that underpins my life, like a persistent drone in a minor key.

I have to try something. Anything. Everything I can possibly do. All kinds of action on climate change. Even if it does all feel pathetically futile and highly unlikely to succeed. In another decade, if nothing has changed, that will be the time to wallow in despair.

2020 will be my year of climate action. Every week I’m going to focus on a different kind of action and this blog is here to keep me accountable. 

Will you join me? 

The stripes show each year’s departure from the annual average temperature of Australia between 1901 to 2018.
You can download regional versions:  https://showyourstripes.info/