‘Nobody wants to do this’: the tough calls to mitigate climate change

By Bianca Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
September 22, 2024
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: International

Changes that used to take place over hundreds or even 1000 years are now taking place in a lifetime… Rather than mutely accepting that climate change will transform our landscapes for the worse, Parks Victoria is entering into a new approach in collaboration with the United States National Park Service and Geological Survey. There, officials have adopted a new approach to climate change: the Resist, Accept, Direct (RAD) framework… In the local version, rangers will look to triage Victoria’s landscapes and locations into areas where resistance can be strengthened; areas where we have to accept that changes are unstoppable (for example coastal inundation, with sea level rises unlikely to retreat); and areas that have already changed.

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