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A better Anthropocene

Our globally connected planet is changing faster than we could ever have imagined. For much of 2019, the lungs of our Earth – the Amazon rainforest – was burning; while only months later, our sunburnt county was doing the same. Both were blanketed in soot and black smoke visible from space.This year a heatwave swept over the Arctic as Siberia’s tundra was set ablaze by wildfire.This is the last place on earth that should be on fire, yet more than a startling metaphor for global warming, it starkly exhibits the urgency of the situation that is climate change.

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.” —Rachel Carson

In the depths of the Arctic ocean, temperatures are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Indigenous coastal communities are feeling the absence of ice as

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