If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor

‘I believe we have the collective juice to break free of what oppresses us. But we’ll need to do this together in new and unlikely alliances,’ writes author Tim Winton. Photograph: AAP

Not long before the Nazis murdered him, the Lutheran pastor and resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children”.

That moral challenge is timeless. But with the climate emergency upon us, it has an unsettling new edge, and with that in mind, I’ve been preoccupied lately by the underappreciated power of solidarity.