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ABC Everyday ( Print text only You've got the reusable cups and bags, the beeswax wraps, the shampoo bar. You collect your cans and soft plastics and you compost, recycle and reuse what you can.  You research brands so you can support sustainable, environmentally conscious businesses.   Why? Because you're trying to do your bit for the environment and climate.  But if you find that when you can't do these things it causes you to feel anxious, guilty or hopeless, you might have something called climate distress. It may sound like a newly invented first-world problem but it is very ...

What did I divest from? Ash and I never thought of ourselves as investors (it has a bit of a suit-and-tie vibe), but thanks to compulsory superannuation in Australia, every Australian of working age is an investor – even if you don’t have a stock portfolio. “I can almost guarantee you that if you are not watching where that money goes, you are accidentally financing the climate crisis,” says Bullock. This is because “in Australia, most superannuation companies are investing in fossil fuels.” And the banks? Like a lot of kids in the 90s, Ash and I were both brought up as Dollarmite...