If we don’t do anything

Castlemaine is the home of the school strike movement in Australia. Seeing our kids give voice to climate was a proud moment for local parents. But two and a half years on the strike continues, with seemingly ever younger children carrying the baton.

Kyla’s notes:

Being an adult at successive school strike for climate rallies has a slightly surreal edge to it - each year I get older but the students stay the same age and not enough has changed - it’s like there is a rent in time and part of the world is lost inside of it…

I see other climate action supporters who are even older than me - it makes me wonder if I’ll still be going to school strike 4 climate rallies in thirty years time - what will it all look and feel like in 2050…

In 2022 I see these beautiful young people - dressing up, laughing and riffing off one another as teens do - just like I did with my own friends at that age… only, at that age I did’t have to worry about the future of the planet and how I would survive it.

Anyway I was asked to take photos for the School Strikers and I ended up making this audio slideshow for them as well. It uses music Rob Law made in his own relative youth and field recordings and interviews by fellow local soundmaker Allie Hanly who produces Saltgrass podcast.