If we are going to address other challenges we face, like the climate crisis, then we need to take a similar approach. On a still, clear day it can be hard to imagine the extreme changes that will unfold if we don't go hard and early to stop the pollution of our shared planet. Yet we also have images available to us of the consequences of inaction on climate change: unprecedented wildfires in Australia and the US, dying coral reefs in the Pacific, and extreme flooding here at home recently in Hawke's Bay, for example. We don't have to imagine the solutions either. They already exist. They are the compact, walkable towns and cities of Europe, the solar revolution in Germany, and the regenerative agricultural movement taking place on farms across Aotearoa. And did someone say, "Land back to indigenous peoples."? It might have been me. 