{"id":2225,"date":"2020-01-08T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=166039"},"modified":"2021-01-31T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T17:11:24","slug":"bushfires-climate-change-government-action","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/bushfires-climate-change-government-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crash Course In Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – NOVEMBER 14: CFA Members work on controlled back burns along Putty Road on November 14, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hello, my name is Isabelle Truman and until very recently I didn\u2019t know enough about climate change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels embarrassing and wrong to write a sentence like that, especially given I am an animal-obsessed, vegetarian, journalist who carries a Keep Cup everywhere, who avoids plastic at all costs and who always votes for the party with the most environmental initiatives. I do all of this because I know we need to, but <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> we need to was something that I wasn\u2019t all too clear on until recently, until Australia started burning to the ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the reason I hadn\u2019t delved headfirst into finding out everything the is to know about climate change and what we can do to stop it is that the mountain felt too big. I felt like it was too far gone. It felt too embarrassing to say \u2018Wait, what is actually happening?!\u2019 in the years leading up to 2020. So I\u2019d sit there and continue to watch Greta Thunberg<\/a> speak, knowing that as soon as she started with facts and figures, mentioning CO2 emissions and gigatons, everything would get a bit blurred around the edges.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when a new decade starts in flames, enough is enough. We have now lost one billion animals, 25 people have died, 2,000 homes have been destroyed and 10 million acres of land. But the scariest part of all? The devastation we\u2019re seeing is just a taste of what\u2019s to come if we don\u2019t take action immediately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So in a bid to find out exactly what\u2019s going on in a way that I could really understand, I went straight to an expert who agreed to answer every question I had, no matter how big, small or silly. On the most recent episode of the podcast I co-host, <\/span>After Work Drinks, <\/span><\/i>scientist and climate change expert, Professor Nerilie Abram from the Research School of Earth Sciences<\/span>,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>explained in laymen\u2019s terms exactly what climate change is, how it caused the current bushfire crisis, the government\u2019s part in all of this (big, HUGE), and how we can each help. <\/span>You can listen to the episode here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW EPISODE: Climate change is directly responsible for the severity of the Australian bushfire crisis and if change isn\u2019t made now, the devastation we\u2019re seeing – lives lost, homes destroyed, a billion animals dead – is just a taste of what\u2019s to come. So what do we do? To explain exactly what\u2019s happening, why the Earth\u2019s temperature is rising, how this is going to cause irreversible damage and the part Australia plays in the climate emergency, we spoke to a scientist and climate change expert who broke everything down simple terms. Plus, in a moment where everyone is feeling helpless and useless, we discuss all the simple, real world ways you can contribute to slowing down (or eradicating!) global warming. The only thing we ask of you this week is to please listen, take note, and pass that info on \ud83d\udc9a Link in bio<\/a><\/p>\n

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