As my son choked on bushfire smoke it was clear our most vulnerable are feeling our climate negligence | Nic Seton

Any new coal and gas projects are incompatible with effective climate action. This egregious compromise has to stop now

I've never felt more helpless as a parent than I did during the black summer bushfires.

Rushing my two-year-old son to hospital, I was overwhelmed with worry: there was no escape from the toxic smoke, even where we lived in inner-city Sydney. It went on and on. As any parents would be, we were terrified about what the next few days would hold.