As the United Nations declares July the hottest month ever recorded, Bulli great-grandmother Cherry Hardaker is becoming more and more worried for her family's future. Which is why the 77-year-old joined protesters, including those from her group the Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Greed, outside Russell Vale mine on Saturday morning to call on a "just transition" away from mining and into renewable energy.
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00:16 I'm the mother of five children, the grandmother of twelve, and the great-grandmother of one.
00:23 And I have been working for years to try and do something about what's happening to the environment.
00:28 We just care passionately about the environment, and we don't want to live in an environment that is in the state it's in now.
00:36 We want to live in a better environment for our children, so that they don't have to experience the horrendous weather changes that are happening.
00:45 The world is burning. It wasn't climate change, it's now a climate catastrophe.
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