Opinion

Let's show young people generational solidarity by acting on climate change

By Susanne Legena
February 24 2021 - 7:00pm
NOW: Australia must act on its intergenerational responsibility to protect all kids from climate impacts. Picture: Shutterstock
NOW: Australia must act on its intergenerational responsibility to protect all kids from climate impacts. Picture: Shutterstock

We are now face to face with a global emergency.

It was the images that flashed across our screens for those long, terrible weeks of the Australian bushfires last summer that became a tipping point for me. Pictures of kids in boats, wildlife destroyed en-masse and birds falling from the sky, of entire ecosystems made uninhabitable. Of course, I had been acutely aware of climate change up until then.

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