MORE THAN ENOUGH

In September last year, I went on the Strike 4 Climate march to support the 80,000 mostly young New Zealanders calling for action. The placards were clever: “This Earth is getting hotter than my imaginary boyfriend”; “I can’t believe I’m marching for facts!”; “Save Planet Earth, not Uranus”.

But the placard I liked best quoted Greta Thunberg: “Start Acting as if Your House is on Fire”. If one message could lodge itself in the psyche of the masses, I thought, that visual metaphor