Why Climate Change Matters.

January 31, 2026

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I’m newly inspired about reducing Climate Change. I saw a video on YouTube about a female polar bear who was pregnant and had to swim a long way because the ice flow she had always lived on had melted completely. Her swim totally exhausted her but luckily she found a human who could help. He gave her warmth and rest and some fish to eat and helped her give birth to two cubs. The vet came and said everything was fine and they found the family a new place to live, on land. But she is not the only polar bear in trouble. This sort of story gets repeated over and over. There are not always humans there to help.

So what have you done today to reduce Climate Change?!!

I turned the air con off.

Cheers, Sally Ann

Sally Ann Hunter

Sally Ann Hunter is a biologist and environmental policy officer (BSc [Biol], MEnv Sts.). She has published a collection of poetry called The Structure of Light and a biography called You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down: from Parkinson’s to a New Life with Deep Brain Stimulation.

A paper she wrote on the biography, was read on ABC Radio’s Ockham’s Razor, as was a paper on living with solar power.

She completed a ten-month course called Manuscript Incubator at Writers SA. Also at Writers SA, she did Poetry Studio on Zoom with Jill Jones over several months.

A novel called Transfigured Sea, (Nature Writing) was published in 2022 and another called Golden Cups (Historical Fiction) is in the process of publisher’s revision.

A number of her poems have been published in anthologies and online. She lives in the Adelaide Hills where she gains inspiration for much of her Nature Writing.

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