Our AWPC mission is to encourage each of us to co-exist positively with the nature around us, find solutions to local nature destruction and actively work for wildlife people, our fellow species, and their habitats. Linked are a couple of stories on the threat to our mutual habitat, this small green planet, with a call for us as citizens to be proactive – demand effective remedies for restoration of atmospheric balance and not be sidetracked and hobbled by the weak or dismissive and distracting response we now see from elected political leaders. Do they have a death wish? The stakes are about the whole of biodiversity as much as human survival in the comfy ‘civilizations’ we enjoy.
The call for individual action for the planet and our fellow species is nicely put by the eminent zoologist Jane Goodall in a foreword to a recent book profiling community action for nature around the world, Echos from Eden.
She writes: “One of the questions I am asked most often is: Do you honestly believe there is hope for our world? And I answer truthfully that we do have a window of time during which we can start healing the harm we have inflicted on the planet – but the window is closing…. We must get together and take action now.
“My definition of hope is different from simple optimism – just passively hoping that something will happen. No, for me hope is generated through action… the cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions will improve our world for future generations.”
What are we offered as daily media fare on climate change? The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target
Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works | Atticus Fleming and Andrew Macintosh
