Caring about land and drought at close range has a cost. Young people in this movement carry grief for places that have already changed, and a low, constant pressure to fix them.
Naming it is not weakness, and it is not a distraction from the work. Burnout takes more advocates out of the room than any opposing lobby does.
The Hub runs wellbeing sessions for exactly this reason, and builds quiet space into the programme at COP17. Rest is part of the strategy.