How do we tell stories about a world in climate crisis? 

What is the role of writers and storytellers at this critical ecological time?

And do the narratives we tell drive climate action or exacerbate the doom and gloom?

This week on Earth Matters we hear from two Australian climate advocates grappling with these very questions.  

Gen Z millennial Connie Gamble is a Masters student of Public Policy and Management and Wattle Sustainability Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her current project uses memory as a storytelling tool to build connection to place. 

Lauren Fuge is a passionate climate activist whose journey from science writer to author speaks to the role of writing as an agent of change. We chat to her about this journey, her book  Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene as well as her PhD exploring creative forms of climate communication. 

Acknowledgements

Audio featuring Connie Gamble and Kumi Naidoo is kindly broadcast courtesy of the Wattle Fellowship, University of Melbourne.  Kumi Naidoo was the keynote speaker at the 2025 Wattle Fellowship Spotlight Series event at University of Melbourne, June 2025. 

For more details about the Wattle Fellowship Program see: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/wattlefellowship

You can follow Connie Gamble's memory project on instagram @sedimentary.lives

Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge is published by Text Publishing.

This week's show is #1523 and was produced by Claudia Craig.