“If you’ve been keeping your powder dry, waiting for the moment when the climate fight really needed you–right about now would be that moment.”
Author: Mik Aidt
Mik is a journalist, podcaster and blogger. Lived in Denmark many years. Spent four years in Africa. Visited close to 60 countries around the planet. Settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a climatesafety advocate when he became a father of three children, and because – with the words of R. K. Pachauri: “We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.”
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In defense of our planet: Give your vote to the kids
London calling: In The Sustainable Hour on 8 May 2019, we cancel some of our planned interview appointments in order to make room for reporting about something historic: the breakthrough for the climate emergency declaration and mobilisation which has been pushed forward by the school strikers and the Extinction Rebellion
School-strikers inspire governments to declare a climate emergency
On 1 May 2019, the British Labour party moved a non-binding motion in the House of Commons to declare ‘an environment and climate emergency’, which was passed by members of the Parliament across the floor.
Australia’s Labor party still immersed in gas and coal
The problem with Labor’s support for climate action is that it is either fake, hollow or misguided. We need to call out those politicians who think they can sign a climate emergency declaration and then spruik fossil fuels. Peter Khalil, a federal election candidate for the Labor party in Wills,
Voice of our planet
Available on BBC iPlayer – screen it for your colleagues, class mates, students, or an entire school “A landmark documentary”~ The Guardian Sir David Attenborough literally is the voice of Our Planet – the Netflix series by this title, that is. With his latest BBC documentary about ‘Climate Change –
#ClimateStrikers’ call to politicians: Show us you mean it
Climate change is here, the Australian election is here, and the third national student climate strike is here. We have two youth strikers in the studio, Caitlin Ramsay and Hilary Cao, who say they are ready to act like their lives and their futures depend on it. We open the
Scotland declares a climate emergency
First Minister of Scotland: “I am declaring that there is a climate emergency. And Scotland will live up to our responsibility to tackle it.”
Earth anthem for a youth movement
You may like or hate this song, but it has all the features of what any new ‘We Are The World’-song should contain
No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response
“It is our responsibility to act with clear urgency to protect the planet and all its inhabitants. We are rebelling for life, for our future, for the future of all species.”~ Extinction Rebellion “From this moment despair ends and tactics begin. Despair is the infantile disorder of the revolutionaries of
New music, facts and atmosphere for change
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 24 April 2019 are singer Andrea Robertson, professor Melissa Haswell, Fatima Kidwai from Climate Leaders, Tina Zenou who stopped eating meat, and Brian Paterson from Urban Systems.