They want you to panic, but love is leading female climate activists

For 27-year-old Eleanor Dixon, the prospect of ecological collapse is personal.

Vanessa Farrelly, Northern Territory director of Seed.

“If my country dies, I lose myself, I lose my identity, I lose my purpose,” she says.

Despite her fears, Dixon is one of an increasing number of young women leading the climate justice movement. Without waiting for politicians, they are leading strikes, joining sit-ins, and starting conversations everywhere from schoolyards to remote communities.

Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Claire Capel-Stanley - “They want you to panic, but love is leading female climate activists.”