Welcome and welcome back. This article talks about trees, multiform-activism, climate crisis, corruption and “all hands on deck”. Not in that order. I lived in Australia for 14 years and during that limited time I saw the speed at which unforeseen and unprecedented ecological events and natural disasters accelerated. Not just in Australia itself, but in many other regions of the globe simultaneously. Last month, Cyclone Gabrielle struck New Zealand's North Island which prompted a nationwide state of emergency. This took place within weeks of flooding in Auckland, when an entire summer's worth of rain fell in a single day. James Shaw, the New Zealand climate change minister, attributed the scale of the disaster to climate change, exacerbated by global temperature increases. In a speech to parliament, he stated that “
Trees, corruption and 'all hands on deck'
Trees, corruption and 'all hands on deck'
Trees, corruption and 'all hands on deck'
Welcome and welcome back. This article talks about trees, multiform-activism, climate crisis, corruption and “all hands on deck”. Not in that order. I lived in Australia for 14 years and during that limited time I saw the speed at which unforeseen and unprecedented ecological events and natural disasters accelerated. Not just in Australia itself, but in many other regions of the globe simultaneously. Last month, Cyclone Gabrielle struck New Zealand's North Island which prompted a nationwide state of emergency. This took place within weeks of flooding in Auckland, when an entire summer's worth of rain fell in a single day. James Shaw, the New Zealand climate change minister, attributed the scale of the disaster to climate change, exacerbated by global temperature increases. In a speech to parliament, he stated that “