“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983)

In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018 we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou
 in Castlemaine, who are mobilising an Australian school strike for the climate, and our guest in the studio is Lis Bastian from ‘The Big Fix’, a successful community news outlet in the Blue Mountains, which possibly could be started up in our community as well.

In a speech in the Canadian parliament, Elizabeth May, leader of Canadian Greens, talks passionately about how the climate breakdown now is affecting our kids – not ‘someone else’s kids’, or some ‘future kids

’ – and we talk with Guy Lane about his new book 
titled ‘What Comes Next: Climate Change, the Future and You’ – a two-hour read that seeks to go viral and change the world.

Briefly we attend Byron Shire Council’s ordinary meeting on 18 October 2018 where all except one councillor voted in favour of passing a Climate Emergency Notice of Motion, the New South Wales municipality’s first Climate Emergency Declaration.

The American meteorologist Eric Holthaus was on CNN to talk about the new IPCC report on the consequences of 1.5°C global warming. We play a clip from the tv station’s online video titled ‘Climate catastrophe could hit by 2030.’.

 

“Some words missing from the IPCC SR 15 summary for policymakers are: Catastrophe, Collapse, Starvation, Emergency, Apology, Sorry.”

~ Jem Bendell, professor, strategist and educator on social and organisational change

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Kids on school strike for climate action

Have you ever asked how our kids, the youth, feel about the way we, the adults, are going about our business and allowing air pollut...