FINDING COMMON GROUND – the parents who refuse to look away

I think it's so easy to feel really overwhelmed by the scale of the climate crisis and especially now it feels like we're having to fight so many fires.

It's not just climate, it's the, you know, dissolution of democracy and the rise of fascism.

I think a lot of young people don't feel like those who are in power really represent the world that we want to live in and are making decisions that will ultimately affect us more than anyone else.

What I would say is that the world has gone through tremendous changes.

And if we look at all of the positive things that have happened in the past 100, 200 years from, you know, the abolishment of slavery and segregation through to the civil rights movement, the rights of women to vote in this country, the rights extended to the queer community, all of those changes have come not from people in positions of power, but from people in the margins.

and people who were up against really tremendous odds.

And I think they were so brave because they acted not when it was easy, but especially when it was hard.

Says Clover Hogan, a young British climate activist.

And I know I can say personally, a lot of Australian climate activists who are finding Life's somewhat hard these days.

It's hard.

It's actually really depressing to watch how easy it is to con people into thinking that this climate crisis, oh, this problem with our pollution, our carbon emission, that's not really a problem.

Actually, it's a hoax.

And it's certainly something we don't need to worry about.

We should worry about cost of living and not give any thought to why it is that we are struggling and prices are going up.

What does that actually have to do with the bigger picture, the climate crisis which is happening and affecting our food production and energy prices and the rest? It's hard.

The fact that there are politicians and thought leaders and these tech gurus in America and billionaires who actually see this escalating climate crisis as a good thing, because that's something that's going to wipe out a couple of billion people, poor people on the planet, people in Africa and Asia.

And it's going to help put an end to democracy, which is exactly what they are hoping for.

They deliberately want to put us into this havoc and devastation.

And meanwhile, as polls are saying, up to 40% of Australians are going to vote for politicians who promise they're going to take us there.

It's hard to accept, which is why, that's what I say, we need to speak up.

And it's also why we have the Sustainable Hour, where we Every week we look into the genuine and the positive alternatives that actually exist.

These better options, the safer ways forward.

Much more about that once we've had our weekly dose of news from around the globe.