Actor Yael Stone has announced she will give up her green card, and as a result, her career in the US as a sacrifice in the ongoing "climate war".
In a series of videos posted on Instagram on Sunday and Twitter on Tuesday, the Orange Is the New Black star said: "it's time to act".
"I'm sitting in a dark room wondering what the hell is happening. Our country is on fire ... Our prime minister has done absolutely nothing. Cold, calculated nothing. We don't have leaders, we have cowards," she said.
"We have to step up because this is war. This is a climate war. And for the first time, our enemy is not wearing a uniform that we'll be able to recognise. Our enemy is our own behaviour."
In the follow-up video, she said her personal sacrifice would be "giving up my green card".
"After a long, considered process, we've come to understand that it's unethical for us to set up a life in two countries knowing what we know. The carbon emissions alone from that flying - it's unethical, it's not right".
The actor said she will "be going through the process of giving up my green card and saying goodbye to a life in America. I'm going to be here in Australia doing the work I can, to make a difference here because the time is now".
Let's make these sacrifices, let's make these changes, let's put some skin in the game Yael Stone
"Like I said, this is war and we've only got 10 years so let's make these sacrifices, let's make these changes, let's put some skin in the game and say, yeah I care and this is what I'm going to do about it. This is just the beginning from me," she said.
Her decision has attracted praise on social media, with Benjamin Law saying "Bloody hell. Now, this is skin in the game ... Arts careers aren't easy. Can only imagine the heartache behind this decision. Much respect".
Stone lived in New York for seven years while playing Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black.
She recently starred in Sydney Theatre Company's dark comedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Her decision comes as Australia struggles through a horror bushfire season.
Since the first fires began in August, more than five million hectares of land has been scorched.
NSW Rural Fire Service crews fight the Gospers Mountain Fire. Source: AAP
Twenty-four people have been killed in the fires, an estimated 500 million animals are dead and more than 1,600 homes destroyed.
