This summer’s extensive and ongoing bush fires have thrust climate change back into the forefront of community concern as well as the political conversation.

Whilst we’ve all heard the warnings about carbon emissions and irrevocable ecological tipping points it seems that all the scientific reports in the world are not as persuasive as seeing homes lost, habitats destroyed, and the sky filled with smoke. You could say we’re an ‘I’ll believe it when I see it” kind of society.