Life in a changing climate is more than coping with emergency events. It’s dealing with food and water insecurity, housing shortages and supply chain issues, threats to our health, the rising cost of living, and questions about how we support the next generation.
In the face of these big questions, it's inspiring to hear about local people and communities who are not just reacting to climate impacts, but getting on the front foot.
The first two episodes of Everything We Need will launch on Earth Day, Monday 22 April. Listen to the trailer now.
Radio maker Kyla Brettle is interested in how we are adapting and responding to climate change, both locally around her home on Dja Dja Wurrung Country and across Australia. Credit: Carmen Bunting Photography/Carmen Bunting Photography
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Introducing Everything We Need: A podcast about climate adaptation
SBS Audio
03/04/202403:09
Credits
Everything We Need is based on a series called Climate Ready Stories, originally commissioned by Dona Cayetana with Geoff Caine and Eryn Coffey for as part of the regional .
Production would like to thank The Climate Systems Hub and organisers of the conference, .
Kyla Brettle: Research, recording, editing and sound
Jane Curtis: Story editor and consulting producer
Rob Law: Original Music
Photography: Carmen Bunting
Artwork: Elizabeth Geddes
Produced with support from the SBS Audio team: Caroline Gates, Joel Supple and Max Gosford.
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Transcript
Troy Butler: This is a leadership group - this is to make them think - how can we fix that problem
Lucy Young: It’s about people reconnecting where they live and really doing what it is to serve life, in place.
Student at Maryborough Education Centre: I was like, this is the thing for me - I just love the environment and I hate how climate change is happening and global warming
I’m Kyla Brettle and this is ‘Everything we need’ - a climate podcast about making change in our lives for the better
Climate impacts are not just some some vague threat in the future - but are touching our lives now
Debra Bogenhuber: I almost left, we were having a dust storm a week… and some of those were leaving us in the middle of the day in complete darkness
Cam Walker: We got a call at quarter past 11 and already there was water inside the substation - it was phenomenal how quickly the creek came up - it was absolutely raging
Amy Atkinson: And recognising that people didn’t necessarily have bushfire plans - even though we are currently in an extreme bushfire risk area
Miranda Bone: So where do you go on these horrific days that are really hot, with lots of wind, you don’t feel safe driving on the road, what do you do?
Living with a changing climate is more than coping with emergency events - it’s dealing with food and water insecurity, housing shortages and supply chain issues, threats to our health, the rising cost of living and how we support the next generation.
Students at Maryborough Education Centre: Wait - this ones another one - Hopefully not another drought... If plants can’t grow, that affects the farmers, then their crops can grow - no, sorry - we actually write down, who gets impacted… um
But what inspires me are people and communities that are not just reacting to climate impacts - but facing them - and connecting with where they live
Linto Thomas: We can flip the narrative - go to the community, start listening to them and build on those answers from there.
Oli Moraes: That vision and principle of bringing climate and people and country together and seeing them as one whole is hopefully what people take away.
Jocelyne Majambere: I’m always like yay - I’m a farmer - I can have food for myself, for friend and for bigger community.
Everything we Need is a podcast of stories - each one a different way to work with the people around you to protect the things you love - and re-think what we all need to thrive - now and into the future.
Uncle Rick Nelson: Kids are our future - if we can have them thinking about environment, about cultural history and looking at ways Aboriginal people lived on this country for so long, hopefully we can see some change out of it
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