The inaugural Eco_Media Symposium, held at RMIT University in October 2019, convened theorists, poets, researchers, filmmakers, and artists to explore creative and critical responses to climate catastrophe. This performance-lecture challenges the notion of “the climate catastrophe” as a singular, universal event, critiquing its colonialist framing and embracing the multiplicity of localised perspectives. It examines ambience as a mode of ecological attention that foregrounds bodily timbre and geospatial awareness. Combining eco-queer methodologies with decolonial praxis, the project speculates on ambience's potential to address the intersections of immediacy and gradualism, offering a framework for contemplating the scales and impacts of climate crises.