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School strike for climate, On Heldenplatz, Vienna, Austria, 15 March 2019. Wikimedia Commons.

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.

Dead trees in the Barrenbox Swamp near Griffith, NSW. CSIRO. Wikimedia Commons.

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')

General

Baddeley, Michelle. 'Almost 90% of Us Now Believe Climate Change Is a Problem – Across All Political Persuasions.' The Conversation, 17 May 2022.

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.

Healy, Stephen and Abby Mellick Lopes. 'Climate Change Hits Low-income  Earners Harder – and Poor Housing in Hotter Cities Is a Disastrous Combination.' The Conversation, 12 May 2022.

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.

King, Andrew, Linden Ashcroft, and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick. '"One of the most Extreme Disasters in Colonial Australian History": Climate Scientists on the Floods and Our Future Risk." The Conversation, 2 March 2022.

McFarlane, Ro, Nenad Naumovski, and Shawn Somerset. 'A Year of Hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine War Is Worsening Climate-linked Food Shortages.' The Conversation, 27 April 2022.

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

Allam, Lorena. '"We Want to be Included": First Nations Demand a Say on Climate Change.' The Guardian Australia, 27 March 2021.

Amos, Jonathan. 'American Colonisation "Cooled Earth's Climate".' BBC News, 31 January 2019.

Climate Change and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Lowitja Institute and National Health Leadership Forum, November 2021.

Hansen, Terri. 'How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change'. Yes! 29 March 2019.

Moggridge, Bradley J., Gretta Pecl, Nina Lansbury, Sandra Creamer, and Vinnitta Mosby. 'IPCC Reports Still Exclude Indigenous Voices. Come Join Us at Our Sacred Fires to Find Answers to Climate Change'. The Conversation, 4 March 2022.

Mohamed, Janine, Pat Anderson, and Veronica Matthews. 'Indigenous Peoples Across the Globe Are Uniquely Equipped to Deal with the Climate Crisis - So Why Are We Being Left Out of These Conversations?' The Conversation, 29 March 2022.

Murphy, Katharine. 'Torres Strait Islanders Take Climate Change Complaint to the United Nations'. The Guardian, 13 May 2019.

Norman, Heidi, and Chris Briggs. 'How Can Aboriginal Communities Be Part of the NSW Renewable Energy Transition?' The Conversation, 5 May 2022.

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.

Synot, Eddie. 'Why the Australian Government Must Listen to Torres Strait Islander Leaders on Climate Change.' The Conversation, 10 November 2021.

Williamson, Bhiamie. 'Caring for Country Means Tackling the Climate Crisis with Indigenous Leadership: 3 Things the New Government Must Do'. The Conversation, 1 June 2022.

Wright, Alexis. 'We All Smell the Smoke, We All Feel the Heat. This Environmental Catastrophe is Global.' The Guardian, 18 May 2019.

Terraced rice fields, Yunnan, China. Wikimedia Commons.

Salinity-driven erosion, Charters Towers, Northern Queensland. CSIRO. Wikimedia Commons.