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We live in a time of climate breakdown with no moral leadership – but we can take action
While we’re stuck inside our homes, we can effect change by putting our money where our mouth is and ending the fossil fuel era
Six years ago I found myself trying to find shade from the mid-morning sun while having a chat with a farmer, Rick Laird.
- David Pocock
- The Guardian
We were chained together, six metres above the ground, on the deck of an enormous super digger in a clearing in what would become Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mine.
I had gone up to Maules Creek to show solidarity with the community protesting against the mine; to add my voice to the hundreds of others who joined the Leard blockade and…