Anna Rose

Anna Rose is a co-ordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coaltion.Anna Rose

"Climate change is the biggest issue facing our generation. It's so huge, so overwhelming, that few of us can even imagine what the future could become if climate tipping points are reached. I feel like someone who has discovered a terrible secret, a mass grave earmarked for us - and all our children - that our governments have decided to essentially ignore. They step around it, refusing to do what needs do be done, and decide it is more convenient – and profitable (in the short-term) - to continue with business as usual.

"Those of us who can see this mass grave, are overwhelmed by the size of the hole and the pace at which humanity is hurtling towards it. We can only fight this challenge one struggle at a time, one place at a time. This is how we will win. Climate camp will be the first time this struggle will be dramatized in Australia through mass direct action. It will be a landmark event in the Australian climate movement.

"The Students for a Democratic Society said, 'if we are said to seek the unattainable let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.' Together, in the world's biggest coal export port – my hometown, Newcastle – we will stand up against the coal industry and fight to make a sustainable, clean energy future, attainable."