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    Knowing Our Power in Tumultuous Times

    Mar 24, 2022 3 minutes
    Lily Spencer
    “The future is not a linear extension of the past.”

    Kelly O’Shanassy, CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation, spoke these words to me last year, during an interview for The reMAKERs podcast about climate change and what gives her hope. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had just issued their latest report, a Code Red for Humanity warning on the nature of things to come. I asked her how she’s able to get up and do this work every day, during a pandemic, knowing that the future for life on Earth is looking so grim.

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