By Rachel Morgan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer
We are living through unprecedented times.
That was the tagline when the startling COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe.
But the phrase had already become commonplace for a generation altered by the reality of climate change. What scientists now commonly call the “sixth extinction event”, defined by the massive loss of plant and animal life over a short geological period, is the likely outcome of temperature increase caused by human activity, namely the use of carbon to create the addictive energy that fuels our lifestyles.
But