Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleIf you visit Karen Grant for a counselling session, expect a little sand in your shoes.Ms Grant specialises in climate anxiety and believes taking the conversation outdoors is an immediate reminder of what the effort to tackle climate change is for."Welcome to my office!" Ms Grant yells over the crash of waves and wind, before moving toward a beach shelter with bench seats and a cement floor.
For almost 20 years, Ms Grant led climbing, kayaking, canyoning and caving trips all over Australia and overseas.She first learned about climate change in 2001, when she retrained as a cartographer. "What I see happening in the community is helplessness, people giving up because now things have got so bad, they don't think they can contribute anymore."
As a child, Dr Jessica Melbourne-Thomas learned to dive in kelp forests off the coast of Tasmania, but those forests are now gone because of climate change. "For me, working on reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is quite compelling and upsetting.
will ruin the peaceful walk
Nar I'll be ok.
Love this.
Just walking on that beach would be counselling enough for me, no “Karen” required.
Ever hear of no being a bch and holding it in like a man😎 well....
No good for me. I'm hard of hearing and I'd be fighting the sounds around me to hear her. 😭😭😭
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