My awareness journey on the climate crisis started in 2022, reading the words from Hans-Otto Pörtner, co-chair of IPCC’s WG II: “The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future”.

I have started to question my sphere of influence as astronomer.

Astronomy is beautiful because it tells us about our past and origins. It is fascinating, stimulating human curiosity, creativity, and imagination. But astronomy offers even more, something I explored in my PhD Thesis (available here).

We, as astronomers, know how rare life on a planet is. […] We, as astronomers, know that there is no Planet B.