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Climate change: yes, your individual action does make a difference

What can we do in the face of the climate emergency? Many say we should drive less, fly less, eat less meat. But others argue that personal actions like this are a pointless drop in the ocean when set against the huge systemic changes that are required to prevent devastating global warming.

Some reflections after Melbourne’s silent sit-in

Three days ago, on Friday, myself and almost 100 other climate activists sat down in the middle of the intersection of Bourke Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne. Surrounded by signs we brought for the occasion, we shut the intersection down for over an hour.