I graduated university in 2019, AKA the year we were told we had 11 years left to prevent irreversible damage from being done to the planet. Welcome to adulthood, huh? Friends made new Instagram accounts to document their sustainability tips, and school children dressed in black, lying in the road to stage a funeral for their futures. My peers decided they no longer wanted to have children due to the crisis. This was the new normal. But are these times as dire as they seem, and what can we take from the battles our communities have fought
