AustLit
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School strike for climate, On Heldenplatz, Vienna, Austria, 15 March 2019. Wikimedia Commons.
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There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can't change the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change, and it has to start today.
Greta Thunberg, TEDx Stockholm, November 2018.
This section collates other voices on climate change. Although some of theses voices may be creative writers or may become so, but the focus here is on activism and the voice as protest.
This section takes the form of Read - Listen - Watch: explore articles, podcasts, and videos that situate climate change fiction in the current mood of protest.
The keyword for this section is 'action'. While climate change fiction can often be grim and apocalyptic, climate activism is inherently hopeful and models changes both large and small that lighten the footprints we leave behind us.
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Dead trees in the Barrenbox Swamp near Griffith, NSW. CSIRO. Wikimedia Commons.
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We, too, can make our final acts on earth a testament to the human capacity for mercy, a living bow to our highest good—for its own sake—even though it will not save the day. (Catherine Ingram, 'Facing Extinction')
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General
Bergman, Megan Mayhew. '"They Chose Us Because We Were Rural and Poor": When Environmental Racism and Climate Change Collide.' The Guardian, 8 March 2019.
Camerini, Valentina. Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet. Collingwood: Piccolo Nero, 2019. (Read an extract.)
Carrington, Damian. '"Outrage Is Justified": David Attenborough Backs School Climate Strikers.' The Guardian, 26 April 2019.
'Climate Change Has Started to Influence Our Language. Here's How.' The Guardian, 30 May 2019.
Falconer, Delia. 'Signs and Wonders.' Sydney Review of Books, 22 March 2019.
Flanagan, Jane. 'Ethiopia Will Plant 4bn Trees to Fight Deforestation.' The Times, 29 May 2019.
Flannery, Tim. 'The Gloves Are Off: "Predatory" Climate Deniers Are a Threat to Our Children'. The Conversation, 17 September 2019.
Ingram, Catherine. 'Facing Extinction'. Catherine Ingram (website), February 2019.
Israel, Janine. 'Sustainability Expert Michael Mobbs: I'm Leaving the City to Prep for the Apocalypse'. The Guardian, 29 September 2019.
Kendi, Ibram X. 'What the Believers Are Denying.' The Atlantic, 1 January 2019.
Stafford, Andrew. 'Australian Musicians Band Together to Invest in Solar Farms.' The Guardian, 4 June 2019.
Taylor, Lenore. 'Enough Scandalous Time-wasting on Climate Change. Let's Get Back to the Facts'. The Guardian, 13 March 2019.
Watts, Jonathan. 'Greta Thunberg, Schoolgirl Climate Change Warrior' [interview with Greta Thunberg]. The Guardian, 11 March 2019.
First Nations Perspectives and Issues
Amos, Jonathan. 'American Colonisation "Cooled Earth's Climate".' BBC News, 31 January 2019.
Hansen, Terri. 'How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change'. Yes! 29 March 2019.
Murphy, Katharine. 'Torres Strait Islanders Take Climate Change Complaint to the United Nations'. The Guardian, 13 May 2019.
Norman, Heidi, and John Janson-Moore. 'Death on the Darling : Colonialism's Final Encounter with the Barkandji'. The Conversation, 5 April 2019.
Roache, Madeline. 'The Mayor Fighting to Save Her Island Home from Climate Change.' Time, 22 April 2019. [Note: Torres Strait Islands.]
Ryan, Hannah. 'Indigenous Traditional Owners Drilled Parliament Lawns to Show Politicians What It Feels Like'. Buzzfeed, 16 April 2019.
Wright, Alexis. 'We All Smell the Smoke, We All Feel the Heat. This Environmental Catastrophe is Global.' The Guardian, 18 May 2019.
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Terraced rice fields, Yunnan, China. Wikimedia Commons.
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Tim Flannery on climate change and saving the reef.
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Salinity-driven erosion, Charters Towers, Northern Queensland. CSIRO. Wikimedia Commons.
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Greta Thunberg, creator and face of the school strikes for climate change.
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The Majestic Plastic Bag, a mockumentary.
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Accelerate Climate Action (2019).
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2040: Join the Regeneration
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