Here are some more resources.

I don't think I really need to explain why we shouldn't turn our natural ecosystems into highways, stockyards, rubbish dumps, and suburban sprawl, but if anyone is on the fence about it, I would recommend the books, websites or podcasts below.

Some of these resources discuss how human beings got themselves into this apocalyptic pickle and others are focused on positive actions people can take to reverse themselves out of it. They're all useful and reading any of them will give you some environmental dilemmas to think about.

Even if you decide to carry on doing nothing, it wouldn't hurt you to at least read what someone more knowledgeable than you has to say and then have a think about it. If more people thought about the environment in their day-to-day lives, we might still have a few more frog species hopping around.

At the very least, the poor people at the recycling plant wouldn't have to spend as much time unclogging plastic bags, shredded paper, extension cords and doonas from their machinery. For the "most intelligent species", thinking tends to be a rather underutilised skill.

Now, if you want a small dose of climate news in your inbox every day or two, I would highly recommend any of the podcasts or websites below.

All of the websites have mailing lists that you can sign up to, but that doesn't mean you have to. If you're just going to sign up to everything then feel overwhelmed and eventually "delete all" to the 379 unread emails in your inbox, you will have achieved nothing.

Just choose one thing and read or listen to that. You can always come back and choose something else later if you find you have some more time. For example, when you have finished unsubscribing to all the other useless junk in your inbox. Or when your 35-year-old children finally decide to move out. Or when you finally realise that upgrading your car every few years is not worth having to work three jobs. Whichever of these things comes first.

My inbox is free from junk and my house is free from children so I basically have nothing to do except keep this list updated in the hope that one day you return.

Actually, that's not true. It won't bother me in the slightest if you return or not.

I am going to keep it updated though. Mostly just to highlight the fact that by choosing not to have any mini-emitters in my house, I have a lot of lovely free time for reading, listening to podcasts and updating webpages that nobody else has time to revisit.