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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: Climate epiphany - 'It just felt like living in nightmare' - Amy Blain; And John Smith from Canberrra's Peoples Climate Assembly
Description: The Australian 2019-20 bushfires saw Amy Blain and her young family trapped on the beach at Bermagui in New South Wales.
Amy had always been concerned about environmental issues, but that moment of "living in a nightmare" was an epiphany for her.
Returning safely from her bushfire/Bermagui experience, Amy decided it was time to take her activism to a new level and now she chairs Canberra's Peoples Climate Assembly.
Climate Conversations made contact with Amy via the group's treasurer, John Smith, during a webinar organized by Anjali Sharma, to talk about the "...