"I suppose I just couldn't sit down and listen to it anymore. I couldn't go to the pub and just keep complaining about it and not actually go do something about it," says Gavin Dixon.
The Australian native is speaking of climate change and man's hand in it. It's a topic that is known to trigger a head-in-the-sand position or, more often, dissipate when thoughts move on to more immediate concerns, such as what's for lunch. Climate change is something people don't like to think about. It's scary. It's far away.
"I found that a lot of people are saying, 'Well, I know it's happening,' but they give it a thought for a minute and then they lose the connection with it because they don't understand and see it happening within their lives," Dixon notes.