‘Hope has to be a strategy’: the scientist who refused to let the climate warmongers win

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:13:50 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/23/prof-lesley-hughes-evidence-effects-hope-the-scientist-who-refused-to-let-climate-change-warmongers-win>

"“I think for most climate change scientists, we become quite good at
partitioning off bits of our brain,” says Lesley Hughes.

“You put all the negative stuff in a little box and you put a wall around it
and you try to keep going.”

But in the record-breaking year that 2023 has become, some of the dread and
grief has broken out of Hughes’s mental box and vaulted the wall.

There have been sleepless nights, where she’s pondered the future for her
family, the natural places she loves and for the species being lost.

“I do grieve,” the ecologist tells Guardian Australia at her home on Sydney’s
lower north shore. “But I’ve never done it on camera.”"

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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