I wrote this piece as a part of the ‘Unfiltered Thoughts’ series to the prompt ‘Conversations that could change a life’. This addition to the series was published on R U OK? Day on 8 September 2022.

This open editorial was penned in the line of my duties as a media spokesperson for School Strikes 4 Climate on 30 April 2019, following the Globe Climate Strike on 15 March. Whilst some of the information stated is now out of date, the issue is even more pressing now than it was then.