Scenes from the Climate Era: A stark look at our vanishing world

By Linda Herrick
New Zealand Listener·
7 mins to read

Scenes from the Climate Era: A stark look at our vanishing world
Watching the world burn: California's 2021 Windy Fire. As climate change and years of drought push wildfires to become bigger and hotter, many of the worlds biggest and oldest trees, the ancient sequoias, were killed. Photo / Getty Images

Theatre preview: A short section in Australian writer David Finnigan’s play Scenes from the Climate Era depicts a solitary tree frog, the very last of its species in the world. “Smiley”, kept in an aquarium to guard against disease, has suddenly started croaking, calling for a mate. But there will

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