A manifesto of care

As the world heats, glaciers melt, bushfires, conflicts and intolerance wreak havoc, it is clear that we have reached a tipping point where we need vast social, political and environmental change. In the early decades of the 21st Century we have witnessed climate catastrophe play out through fires across Australia, California and the Amazon; extremist right wing politics fuel austerity; despotism and racism in Europe, the US and Australia; while gender inequality continues to permeate spheres of influence and life throughout the planet. When bush fires burned millions of hectares in Australia, people asked whether this is the end of the world as we know it. Enough is enough!! We can either continue with the bellicose politics of austerity, racism, gender inequality and climate denialism, or we can practice a politics of care. Macarow proposes a Manifesto of Care to assist with the adaptation and mitigation to the climate emergency we find ourselves in. The climate crisis buttresses all systems on earth and there is no way out of the emergency unless we practice care rather than domination. The Manifesto of Care is concerned with biodiversity and ecologies of care. Practices of care, kindness, imagination, collaboration and generosity are more than ever required for the health, wellbeing and potential of all humans and non-humans that inhabit our planet.