FERNWOOD FITNESS - PULSE eMagazine - Issue#7 - Flipbook - Page 50
Climate emotions are slowly gaining attention as we are
becoming increasingly aware of the threats associated
with our warming planet. While the effects of climate
change were once invisible and a problem of the “future”,
it’s becoming clear that the future is here and now.
Climate change is no longer invisible, and as a result
it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore with
many now seeing it as impossible to dismiss given the
overwhelming micro and macro data and measured changes
that are inexplicable outside climate theory.
We see climate change in the 昀氀oods, the 昀椀res,
and the “unprecedented” weather events that
are vastly becoming the norm. We see it in
oscilla琀椀on between extremes, the ho琀琀est of
the hot days to the we琀琀est of the wet. We see
it in the loss of the sounds of frogs in creeks,
the decrease in bee s琀椀ngs, and the lack of
insects hi琀�ng our windscreen. We see it in
the staggering 60% decline of mammals, 昀椀sh,
birds, rep琀椀les and amphibians over the past
40 years. We see it in our own backyards; in
the indigenous plants and trees that just don’t
thrive anymore despite having grown in that
loca琀椀on for thousands of years.
We are increasingly hearing climate change
in our children’s narra琀椀ves. In our children,
we feel the guilt and anguish of knowing they
are inheri琀椀ng an impossibly di昀케cult world,
and that we are largely powerless to protect
them undo the damage. I know 昀椀rsthand the
grief of a nine-year-old child holding my hand,
looking up into my eyes and asking “Mum,
will I be able to have children? Or will they
die from climate change?”.
If you are also
feeling this, you’re
not alone.