As voters, we are embedding a cabal of political eunuchs, neutered by our inability to aspire beyond the trivial, the expedient and our endless ambition to extract and consume all within our reach.

We need positive action on climate and biodiversity, a new construct for living as part of rather than in conflict with nature, in order to meet our responsibilities for the health, wellbeing and, yes, even prosperity of future generations.

Attribution of emissions outputs to climate change and specific environmental impacts is a nonsense legal view setting an unfortunate precedent for expansion of fossil fuel extraction and export in Australia.

Climate change and biodiversity are flip sides of the same coin – one interacting and ultimately dependent upon the other. From a human perspective, this makes it impossible to divorce climate action and mitigation from biodiversity protection.

How do you meet the challenge of advocating for climate action is when people’s personal experience of the weather often seems to contradict the science. A cold day in Melbourne had me pondering this.

The ‘firehawks’ of The Kimberley opened my eyes to the fact that there is plenty about indigenous knowledge that meets the formal method of western science and the two have more in common than they differ.

Don't we feel powerless at times to deal with climate change and environmental loss? It is not beyond individuals to take action.

We should embrace the potential firepower that the finance industry’s focus on risk will bring to the call to action on climate, environment and sustainability.