This piece appeared in the Daily Maverick on 6 March 2019. The original piece can be viewed here. How do we respond to eco-anxiety? Curl ourselves into balls of denial and trust that some techno-fix just over the horizon will save us or do we need transformative hope? The sixth extinction is upon us; the…
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