Here’s that up-to-date report from the climate emergency frontier in Victoria and the rest of the world, which your so-called professional and public media – sleepwalking on their payroll – once again completely failed to deliver to you.

With strong emotions in the chamber, City of Melbourne declared a climate emergency on 16 July 2019. We play two excerpts from the discussion and the voting at the meeting. Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 July 2019 are:

Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth – who discusses the Victorian Government call for submissions on the energy reduction targets. Friends of the Earth are asking for zero net emissions by 2025. Friends of the Earth are hosting an event titled “Get shit done” to be held at the Multicultural Hub in Melbourne. This all day events is on Saturday 27 July 2019.

Aileen Vening – another climate breakdown warrior – gives us a first hand account of beach erosion and damage to coastal infrastructure. She has engaged in school programs on coastal geography. Average world sea level rise is now 5 millimetres per year.

We play audio clips with the Late John Clarke and Dawe explaining the energy market, and with George Clooney, who explains about UDUMASS – asking us to “listen to the scientists on climate change.” 

Tony comments on the high profile philatropist and the funds being made available to climate action warriors. More below.

“It’s about inviting the youth, the future leaders, to come and talk to Council at a council briefing about their concerns, so that we can actually respond, but more importantly, to show that we are listening to them. And the reason I get emotional when I talk about that is that I think about my daugther, who’d want to know: What am I actually doing… for [her]? If we don’t declare an emergency, I don’t think I can hand-on-my-heart say that we are doing enough.”~ Cathy Oke, Councillor, City of Melbourne

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Climate emergency dinner with guest speaker

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