We gasp in heartbroken horror at images of towns ravished by bushfire and drought; recoil at the sight of waves of trash crashing onto once pristine beaches; and despair at the plight of polar bears, reduced to fur and bones, collapsing from hunger. And then we move on, without ever really addressing the stark reality of our unsustainable lives.
Our children, however, do not. Riddled with anxiety, they fret about pollution, deforestation, poor air quality, undrinkable water and environmental threats that grow ever more ominous. They are outraged by the people who refuse to change their behaviour to tackle human-driven climate change and who they believe are bequeathing them an uncertain future on a broken planet. They are too young to be carrying the weight of knowledge that they are the last generation with any chance of turning things around.
When we were children, our heroes were movie stars fighting imaginary foes. But to the next generation, heroes are real people fighting a very real threat.
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