So let’s not read and get depressed, take some sort of action: political: e.g. write or talk to your local MP, even your local councillor, support environment organisations with petitions and submissions or volunteering at events, practical: plant native shrubs or trees that will help your local wildlife, join a Landcare or bush regeneration group, become a transporter (or wildlife carer) for volunteer wildlife care groups, creative: create art related to nature and share it with others, go to workshops, read nature stories to your children, collect treasures in the bush and turn them into artworks with your kids or grandkids, monetary: donate to environmental causes that are meaningful to you, personal: commune with nature, look at the plants and animals around you, listen to their voice and the voice of the sea, the wind.
Get cranky, get passionate but don’t give up if you love nature. It will love you back.