Feeling the Heat

Temperature's Rising and We're Burning Out

When Steph Evans’ love for dugongs took her to the Great Barrier Reef on a research expedition last year, she had to think twice about posting photos on her Instagram feed, wary of the backlash she’d receive from fellow classmates and online trolls.

“Dugongs have sort of become a word I don’t want to hear anymore. I guess because it’s become a taboo. It’s always the thing people have paid me out about or talked about me behind my back very loudly that I can hear it.”

Steph is an example of a growing movement of young activists who have elevated public awareness of a worsening climate crisis. For a 16 year old she has an impressive list of accomplishments; convincing her local council to declare a climate emergency, travelling to Canada to participate in a global climate conference, and at the age of 10, starting her own charity, Seas of Change.

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