‘Hope has to be a strategy’: the scientist who refused to let the climate warmongers win

Lesley Hughes, a high-profile voice on climate in Australia, says she does grieve for the ecological loss wrought by the heating climate. Photograph: James Gourley

“I think for most climate change scientists, we become quite good at partitioning off bits of our brain,” says Lesley Hughes.

“You put all the negative stuff in a little box and you put a wall around it and you try to keep going.”