The path the world takes out of lockdown will shape the climate struggle for decades to come

auntyuta Uncategorized June 25, 2020 1 Minute

The climate crisis is still the greatest challenge!

23 June 2020 — ROAR Collective

What can we do to seize the moment?

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COVID-19 has forced a re-evaluation of nearly every aspect of how we fight for social and ecological justice. Yet, when it comes to the issue of climate change it can seem as if the virus has changed everything without changing anything at all. The world we live in today looks nothing like it did at the start of the year, but the climate crisis is still the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced and global capital is still hell-bent on ignoring it.

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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com View all posts by auntyuta

Published June 25, 2020

4 thoughts on “The path the world takes out of lockdown will shape the climate struggle for decades to come”

doesitevenmatter3 says:

June 26, 2020 at 8:54 am

Thank you for sharing this, Uta.
HUGS and ❤ to you and Peter!
🙂

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1. auntyuta says:
  
  June 26, 2020 at 3:31 pm
  
  You are welcome, Carolyn.
  Hugs from us to you too! 🙂
  
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catterel says:

June 26, 2020 at 9:02 pm

I’m so glad I’m old and not young at this time!

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auntyuta says:

June 26, 2020 at 10:02 pm

“. . . when it comes to the issue of climate change it can seem as if the virus has changed everything without changing anything at all. . .”
I keep thinking, Cat, that how is it, that with all the changes the virus has brought, society as a whole is still reluctant to cut back on everything. If old people cannot find it in them to change their ways, I wonder, how many younger people are aware at this time that cutting back is essential for survival?
I am amazed that a lot of vibrant life loving people, for instance in England, rather spend a beautiful warm, sunny day at an overcrowded beach rather than thinking of this very dangerous virus that could infect them at large gatherings like these. Are they not like lemmings, really?
Being old, actually very old, I do not think there is much I have to be afraid of. But I am very, very concerned not just about my descendants, but about humanity overall.

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