The reason I don’t intend to travel anymore to Australia with large groups of musicians is because it’s just not environmentally tenable," Anohni says.

"The footprint is too abhorrent. The amount of carbon that I burned to get here … it’s football fields full of forests for me to come here with a group."

Good on her

This time, Anohni is focused on the Great Barrier Reef, where she has spent time investigating and documenting its destruction.

“I put all the money or the proceeds from the concert into this project, Mourning the Great Barrier Reef, which has been my focus for the last month,” she says.

“I’ve been in Queensland filming at Lizard Island with a group of marine biologists and filmmakers, documenting the state of bleaching and acidification that’s currently playing out on those group of reefs.”

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying

Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.