A 75-year-old Australian pensioner got inspired by a 15-year Swedish teenager, and hear what happened next… 30-minute radio documentary by The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse about Caroline Danaher’s direct action quest in Geelong, Australia. This is the story
Category: World affairs
I hereby declare The Story as changed
The strategy of getting more councils and governments to declare a climate emergency is changing the story. Why is that important?
“Everything must change:” Drone action with picnic at Heathrow Airport
Video from three EU election candidates’ press conference at Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom, calling for Heathrow Airport to pause all flights.
#ClimateStrike: Unprecedented youth mobilisation around the world
Friday 3 May 2019 was a Climate Election Day of Action in 75 locations across Australia, where thousands of students left their schools in order to pay their local federal politicians a visit instead, as a contribution to the #climateelection
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.
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
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.”
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
British arts organisations declare a climate emergency
More than 190 UK institutions and individuals from the arts and culture sectors have pledged to declare a climate emergency and in this way become part of a first wave of climate emergency declarers in the country.
Concept of ‘climate emergency’ enters mainstream of society
2019 was the year the ‘climate emergency’ genie eventually was allowed to come out of its bottle and go mainstream…