The Shepparton News has pointed to podcasts as a possible "thing" to help people navigate social distancing and social isolation during the present Coronavirus pandemic.

That is unquestionably true (I'm biased), but will we be using the valuable experiences from the pandemic to help us better understand what we can do both as individuals and a a community to find our way through the climate crisis.

The Coronavirus, or at least news about it, has claimed all the world's major news sources, pushing the climate crisis into the little read, or watched, margins.

However, the climate crisis is still front and centre for some and in France the government is actively seeking the advice of the people; asking it citizenry about how best the country could go about addressing the climate problem in what is seen by some a "grand democratic experiment". The idea was discussed on Australia's Radio National "Saturday Extra" program.

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