'I can’t breathe. They say something like 100 bush and grass fires are raging across the state. The city I live in feels like a scene from Blade Runner 2049 come to life in 2019. There is no other way to see it: our dead future is here'.
In the final week of our national parliament there was no word about climate change, little sense of much that is urgent, just platitudes and worries and scandal.
My experience of the city and its skies feels like an omen. I fret for my children getting home from school and the world that is coming for them. Towards the back of my head, right at the base where my neck joins it, a dull cloud sits in my mind and I struggle to think straight in this atmosphere that has become a part of me. I’m tight and tense, and I register that I am becoming desperate and have no voice that matters.
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