We used to say, “to declare a climate emergency.” Now it has become such a common thing to do that people just say “to declare” and expect everyone to know what they mean. → You can add your name to
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Australian parents angry about climate threat
Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…
United Kingdom: Civil disobedience call for emergency plan of action
Extinction Rebellion is a non-violent civil disobedience movement – an “alliance of the willing” – in the UK which demands of its government that it declares a climate emergency, communicates the crisis to the public and goes zero carbon already by 2025.
We call on ABC and SBS to break the silence on the climate emergency
This page was published on 31 October 2016. It was updated on 1 September 2017 by which date it had had 123 unique visitors When will the ABC and SBS begin to live up to their own charters – their
It’s time to decide our future
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 February 2017 are Simone Boer, leader of City of Greater Geelong’s Our Future project, and Steve Posselt, kayak adventurer. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 154 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To
Finding foothold as a wave of climatic counter-logic hits our parliaments
Some January 2017 notes with links and contemplations as we enter a new year and are confronted with governments’ increasingly absurd lack of response to the dangerous climate change disruption – the Great Turning, collapse, catastrophe, apocalypse or whatever you want
Significance of Paris Agreement: Churchillian turning point for smoke
The Sustainable Hour on 2 November 2016 is all about the ‘evil smoke’ – some prefer prettier names such as greenhouse gasses or carbon emissions – and how we will get rid of it, now that the global Paris Agreement
Climate emergency radio relay
We have a climate emergency, but no one is reporting or acting on the facts. What are we going to do? Inspired by American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ call for a World War II mobilisation, we started asking a row
Our coal fired power stations: Shut them down!
Submission to the Committee Secretary, Re: Retirement of coal fired power stations It’s time to get serious about the climate emergency and start shutting down coal fired power stations. There is no more time to pander to the coal industry,
The key to unlock the current climate action stalemate
The greatest threat humanity has ever been confronted with is not climate change. It is us, human beings, and the way we have organised ourselves in democracies where money flows both openly and secretly back and forth between powerful commercial