From Slacktivist to Activist
By Jenn H O’Connell When our daughter was born, in 2014, we were living overseas in a community built around oil and gas. My husband worked in the industry, we flew regularly for international holidays, we bought more bottled water than ever before, and lived in a little expat bubble that basically ignored the climate crisis. Our family earned good money and paid barely any tax. But we were paying a "soul tax" (a term borrowed from a wise friend I met while there) and as our