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Where Family Meets Community… and the Forest Meets the Sea  is about empowering our kids, us as individuals and as a community so that collectively we can help create an insurance scheme against climate change… one tree at a time.

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Statistics released March 2022 from the 2020/21 Australian Bureau of Statistics showed 19% of children aged 15-24 had anxiety and 14% had depression. Our kids and grandkids are exposed to all the adult problems of the world via the media, yet may feel powerless to do anything about it.

In recent NSW coastal history: 2019/20 east coast mega-fires burned through an estimated 8 million hectares of vegetation, plus the estimated loss of between one and three billion native animals… depending on which creatures are included in the statistics.

A global pandemic hit in 2020 which we are still recovering from emotionally, economically and physically.

Then in 2022, within months our NSW coasts had three once-in-a-hundred-year floods with one being reclassified as a once in five-hundred-year-flood.

The Australia: State of The Environment released July 2022 showed: “The Australian environment is deteriorating, climate change threatens every ecosystem and environmental decline and destruction is harming our wellbeing.” https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-pinion/news/2022/07/19/state-of-the-environment–the-findings.html 

In 2019 children from 200 countries around the world went on strike to show their level of concern about climate change. Their common voice is too loud to ignore and we should not ignore them any longer.

Each one of these factors focused attention on a need for community action: acting locally, while thinking globally.

We can be the leaders our children seek by working with them as part of our communities to create a safer future.