Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW 31ST MAY 2021STOP GASLIGHTING OUR FUTURETypes of climate action : Striking, leafletting and going to jailProduced by Vivien Langford ,Robert McLean and the Climate Action Show collective GuestsSCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATEAllen Hicks National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union. Gamillaraay Next GenerationPacific Climate Warrior from 350.orgPitt St Uniting Church :Youth, Pacific and Religious leaders EXTINCTION REBELLIONViolet Coco Lesley Mosby GET UP!Millie and Bondi Junction Volunteers who engaged the public in conversations about GAS. Music Greg Barnett - " Frog in a Pan " Pictures from the Sydney and NSW school strikeshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ss4c/albums/72157719117836771

Climate Action Show May 24th 2021CAPE GRIM, TAKAYNA and KIRIBATI frontiers of Climate Action Produced by Vivien Langford, Alison Hanley ,Sean Marsh and James PerrinGuests:Jessie Boylan in conversation with Alison Hanley from Saltgrass (3mdr.com)Bob Brown in conversation with James Perrin from The Overview Effect Bob Brown & Scott Jordan see a protected takayna rainforest | Overview Effect with James Perrin (climactic.fm)'Insufficent Study of Listed Species' at Tailings Dam Site - Tasmanian TimesAnote Tong Former PM of Kiribati  Growing Concern with Seán Marsh (climactic.fm) - Watch the video interview here: https://youtu.be/BXBlh6MeNYkTonight three guest producers take us to the frontlines of climate action.CAPE GRIMThe C.S.I.R.O scientists at Cape Grim might not see themselves on the frontline. Yet the pure air they have gathered there for decades is a benchmark for the world. Artist Jessie Boylan went to Tasmania to find images of the long emergency exemplified by creeping parts per million of CO2 from 350 to 410.7 measured today at Cape Grim.She asks,  why is so much destruction of the Biosphere sold to us as advancement? TAKAYNABob Brown says "The Health of the Biosphere is in trouble". As the Amazon is now emitting more carbon than it sequesters we must not be bystanders.Protecting the half million hectares of Temperate forest as World Heritage would sequester carbon and slow the climate catastrophe.'Insufficent Study of Listed Species' at Tailings Dam Site - Tasmanian Times KIRIBATIFormer PM of Kiribati calls for a global moratorium on  new coal mines. He says politics is about local issues. Politicising climate change which is a global problem has been the greatest drag on progress. He says to us your leadershipm is not representing yoiu. Take responsibility .You cannot keep your emissions to yourself they are affecting us."People think they are a few rows back from the frontline, but once you're at the front it's too late" "Where will future generations go?"

The Climate Action Show17th May 2021 Produced by Vivien LangfordTIM FLANNERY AT THIRROULAN EXTINCTION REBELLION PICNIC GuestsProfessor Tim Flannery- The Climate Council, Author of  The Climate CureText Publishing — The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency Wollongong can prosper from a future without coal, Flannery says | Illawarra Mercury | Wollongong, NSWMithra Cox -  Wollongong Councillor for the Greens, Musician with The LurkersSharon Posell and Craig Peritt - Protect our Water Alliance. POWAHOME | Protect Our Water Alliance | WollongongOlatunji - Poet at the picnicIKNAG - Illawarra Knitting Nannas against gas The Femmes Fatales - Wild brass band led by Mel WishartFuneral band Les Femmes Fatales performs feminist protest act at HONK! Oz - ABC NewsNaia Webb - Illawara Climate Action NetworkThe Illawarra Climate Coalition - Home | Facebook  THIRROULThis is coal country south of Sydney.The Illawarra escarpment looming over Extinction Rebellion's picnic is riddled with coal mines. Many of them are causing damage to the river beds and swamps above with losses to Sydney's drinking water catchment. DH Lawrence and Frieda stayed at Thirroul and they would have loved the celebration of life that XR brings to the contemplation of climate catastrophe. The brass band with its melodramatic funeral march,  the children making tomb stones for lost species and the serious speakers were not at all macabre.In the background you will hear cockatoos screeching home to roost and children pelting across the grass in sack races.Tim Flannery told us that the Earth's climate System sets the deadlines not politicians. He now lives in this community and is energised by the battle ahead, as they make the transition from coal and gas. Mithra Cox talked about being on council and how we must elect climate activists. Her long experience as a musician supporting many causes has given her the courage to be a leader. Craig Peritt from POWA has worked in the mines and has seen the water gushing in from cracks in the riverbeds. His dream is for green steel at Port Kembla. Will Twiggy Forrest make it a reality? He said our role as activists is to be informed, to be constructively angry, smart and well organised. Sharon Possel explained just what it took for this community to succesfully stop  an  extension of the Dendrobium Coal mine.Dendrobium coal mine expansion rejected by planning commission, John Barilaro vows to overturn ruling - ABC NewsMillions in federal budget for Port Kembla hydrogen-fuelled power plant | Illawarra Mercury | Wollongong, NSWThere is so much more to this programme than the named leaders. You will hear the voice of a child of five and three quarters who witnessed the 2020 Bushfires, there's a poet and  many climate activists, young and old who are energetically making the transition away from the industries and jobs of the past.To take action consider lending your support to Protect our Water Alliance Protect Our Water Alliance (list-manage.com)Leave a message for The Climate Action Show at 3CR 03 94198377

THE CLIMATE ACTION SHOW12TH APRIL 2021 Produced by Vivien Langford#The Tour de Carmichael to stop Adani, #The Climate Action Network Australia to unite our efforts, #Climate Conversations with Professor David KarolyGuests:Coedie McAvoy -  Wangan and Jagalingou People of the Galilee Basin and leader of the Tour de Carmichael Julie Anne Richards -  CEO of CANA  Professor David Karoly - Why more gas is crazy! from Climate Conversations by Robert Mc Lean This show dramatises three aspects of climate action: 1. Holding the line against more emissions.. In the lead  to stop Adani's Carmichael Coal mine are the Traditional owners who regard this land as sacred.Home | Tour De Carmichael (wixsite.com) 2. Policy and Pressure. J.A Richards talks about the Biden Climate Summit in April. Will Australia will be pressured to turn our ship around? She describes how the Glasgow COP this year will  feature  Loss and damage Reparations. This reprersentsd years of ardent work by NGOs and community climate campaigners! Would you like to take collective action?. our members - CANA 3. Public outreach and education; We see  how an eminent scientist like David Karoly is prepared to speak even at a small gathering in Shepparton and a keen radio journalist takes it to a wider audience. Climate Conversations (climactic.com.au) The ongoing disasterous climate impacts such as the floods here, in Indonesia and in East Timor must wake us up to the emergency our  gas and coal are creating. Cocktail of disaster': East Timor asks for Australian aid as floods trigger disease outbreak (msn.com) The Climate Action Radio Collective is being launched in Mid May. We want it to be a platform for the great diversity of people taking climate action. If you or a group you are involved with, would like to make a  regular contribution please contact Vivien [email protected] Here is a message from Coedie about the Tour de Carmichael. ngadyu narri coedieMy name is coediengadyu dannga WirdiMy language is Wirdingadyu yamba nani wanggan yagalingguMy homelands are the wangan and jagalingoungaya wandu-na wadirra bama gayu wurba-gu ngadyu yamba naniI'm asking every man and woman to come to my homelandsyina dalgayu gundarra ngali gara banggaynThis is a big fight and we're not afraidngali wurba-naWe're comingAlong the journey we’ll be stopping and sharing about the significance of our Totems, Twin Hills, the Belyando, the Carmichael river and the importance of our sacred Doongmabulla Springs and other dreaming stories. You’ll be invited to the camp and ceremonial ground that I set up for a smoking ceremony in August last year where you’ll be part of some great yarns and teachings. Tour De Carmichael – Cycle for Country: May 3-7 on Wangan and Jagalingou land Registrations for the Tour are now open and close on Sunday 25th April. Sign up to learn how you can join the tour or help from home.For nine years we have said NO to Adani’s toxic coal mine that will rip the heart out of our Country and destroy our songlines.We as Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners of the Galilee basin are continuing to fight. Join me in the next stage of the battle at the Tour De Carmichael - sign up to learn more.P.S. Oh and please click "GOING" on the Facebook event to demonstrate support for the event. If you can’t make it but want to support from home you can also chip in to cover the costs of the tour here.

CLIMATE ACTION SHOW APRIL 5TH 2021"ONCE YOU KNOW"Produced by Vivien Langford What happens "once you know" about climate change? Two film makers from TFF show us the "spear in the chest moment", when a person with a platform becomes an activist. Once you KnowEmmanuel Cappelin had such a moment when he  realised we are heading for collapse. It is a  grenade word. When it explodes in your mind you need to find out what to do, to be transformed or to remain stuck.   He visits Joanna Macey in USA and Dr Saleemul Huq in Bangladesh. These people have been bravely facing the challenges for decades. He looks at Transition Towns, Citizens' assemblies and direct Action through Extinction Rebellion. It is an intellectually provocative discussion. Emmanuel talks about preparing for the "long future". When we are reeling from local climate shocks and shortages how will we maintain democractic and civilised behaviour? What must we save on the way down? Beyond ZeroNathan Havey film is  Beyond Zero – A feature length documentary from HaveyPro Cinema (beyondzerofilm.com) It brings us the story of a carpet company called " Interface" whose CEO, Ray Anderson, had a "spear in the chest moment" after reading a book by Paul Hawken. Ray saw that  industry needs to achieve far more than sustainability. It needs to sequester carbon, and prevent future environmental damage. In 2019, "the company officially announced the completion of Mission Zero and introduced the next mission, called Climate Take Back; an aggressive new strategy to sequester carbon in their products and make their factories perform the same functions as forests, sustaining and replenishing the ecosystem." Nathan says " You can't mandate a change like that. A cultural transition makes an environmental transformation possible." We talk about the Green New Deal, Biden's climate action promises and the caring economy. He says we "have to bring more people in to design solutions" and offers his film as a part of any Business Curriculum.Teach This Story – Beyond Zero (beyondzerofilm.com)To build a lasting community of workers with a stake in the future here is an online course from HarvardIntrapreneur Accelerator  If there's a tomorrow Song by David Rovics and friends Songbook – David Rovics -Singer/Songwriter

March 29th 2021WINTON HIGGINS  ALBERT CAMUS THE PLAGUE AND LAUDATO SIThe story of LE CHAMBON  and how not to be a bystander in the climate emergency.PRODUCED  BY  VIVIEN  LANGFORD  and  ANDY BRITT Music by KAVISHA MAZZELLA  with her new album EMPTY SKY  Winton Higgins is a distinguished writer, Secular Buddhist teacher  and Holocaust scholar. He tells us the story of Le Chambon. In 1940 the writer Camus was sent there for his TB but while writing The Plague, he observed a conspiracy of goodness. The community was committed to saving the lives of many Jewish people and helping them escape to Switzerland. As plague force global emissions in our time are temporarily lessened by flights,cruises and industry being locked down for the COVID 19 pandemic, many are re reading The Plague. Winton discusses the novel with Vivien in terms of what strength we can draw from it as we face the truth of the climate emergency in our generation.He also  looks at Laudato Si!  by Pope Francis, to learn how not to displace our moral responsibility... How to be citizens rather than consumers. Naomi Klein warned us in Shock Doctrine,that predatory money will turbo charge the recovery if we let it. Will damaging the biosphere continue to be seen as a necessary trade off as workers are engaged in emissions intensive projects? Will we continue to be bystanders ? Kavisha Mazzella MusicEMPTY SKY (kavisha.com)This discussion is full of practical ideas although it is more philosophical than usual.Please pass the podcast on to friends.

The Climate Action Show22nd March 2021Edited with permission from Reset 21 Forums by Vivien Langford BELOW ZERO 2030EMERGENCY ACTION FOR NEGATIVE EMISSIONSThe dramatic shift in mainstream climate policy in support of a zero-emissions target is widely welcomed. But are we at grave risk of missing our intended outcome by attaching highly dangerous timeframes to this critical goal?The evidence is clear: any further emissions released from now will only jeopardise the ability to address the existential threat of climate change. Current emissions will have ongoing impacts, and temperatures will continue to rise even if all future emissions were prevented today. In addition for the need to address the question of immediate cooling, two actions critical for long-term climate repair include eliminating all further emissions, and large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.What are the leading tech disruptions, key innovations and economic strategies that could dramatically accelerate the transition to zero within the decade? What elements could make up an effective global drawdown program at the monumental scale and speed required?Saul Griffith – Founder and Chief Scientist, Rewiring AmericaHeidi Lee – CEO, Beyond Zero EmissionsJustin Borevitz – Professor of Plant Energy Biology, ANUModerated by Natasha Mitchell – ABC Broadcaster & JournalistrK50AJN5cX2Dwzg52fnK

Over this past six months I have been closely watching the news - it has become clear that Australia's backing of fossil fuel exports are becoming increasingly untenable. The US has rejoined the Paris agreement, in October China vowed to reach net zero by 2060 - quickly followed by South Korea and Japan. This Asian tsunami away from coal is a huge proportion of our coal exports which accounted for over 55% in 2018.And where does this position Australia with our reliance coal and the prospect of a gas lead recovery? Tim BuckleyTim Buckley is the Director of Energy Finance Studies at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Tim is expertly placed to foresee how Australia's energy export prospects are likely to change as our export partners move away from coal and commit to net zero energy targets. Links from interview: Biden's Executive order on Climate change  Ross GarnautProfessor Ross Garnaut has been the most important climate policy strategist in Australia over the past 2 decades. His work reviewing the economics of a carbon price profoundly influenced the policy decision of the Rudd and Gillard governments. His 2019 book Superpower: Australia's Low Carbon Opportunity reframes the exhausted debate on climate change in Australia from necessary sacrifice to economic opportunity. His resent book Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession looks at Australia's recovery post-COVID.Links from interview:Superpower: Australia's Low Carbon OpportunityReset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic RecessionJolene ElberthJolene Elberth is the Australian Conservation Foundation's Democracy campaigner. Jolene has a deep understanding of how democracy in this country is being undermined by money and influence from various industries - in particular the fossil fuel lobby - how this impacts the decision making process of our politicians.

WOMEN'S CLIMATE LEADERSHIPWHERE DOES IT TAKE US?8TH MARCH 2021Produced by Vivien LangfordGUESTS:Victoria McKenzie-McHarg - Women's environmental Leadership WELA and Chair of the Climate Action Network Australia CANALucy Manne - CEO of 350.org AustraliaJanet Laurence - Artist and Curator of REQUIEM at the Festival of Sydney 2021Kerrie Leishman - Painter on her exhibition "The New Beauty" featuring wind turbines at Waubra VicMusic : Montaigne with the song that launched the School Strike for Climate in Sydney 2019-  "Ready to Go!"and "Mother earth" composed by Aunty Ruby Sims to launch the Beyond Zero Emissions "Million Jobs Plan" sent to us by Dominque Hes The theme of international Women's day this year is Women in leadership.Victoria McKenzie-McHarg launches the show. Her IWD hero is Julie Lyford who, with Groundswell Gloucester fended off a gas company in their valley and then won a court case to stop the Rocky Hill Coal mine going ahead. Julie is a graduate of the Women's environmental leadership course. Victoria says it's obvious that the present political, societal and corporate leadership is failing on climate action. a more collaborative, diverse and supportive form of leadership is needed. She speaks about  Nicola Rivers who with young children could not see herself as a CEO but through mentoring came to the idea of sharing a CEO position which she now has as CoCEO of Environmental Justice Australia.WELA is there to open doors for women. They have established a giving circle to fund women led projects and initiatives for our envoronment.Women's Environmental Leadership Australia | The Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) program is designed by and for women environmentalists to support women taking environmental leadership in Australia.  sign up for our monthly e-newsletter and join us on Facebook. To celebrate IWD we talk to two artists who lead us towards a change of heart around our connection to the land and  landscape.  They are Janet Laurence and Kerrie Leishman. Janet Laurence curated REQUIEM, a week of art events in an old Reservoir near Paddington Town Hall. As we descend into the sunken cathedral she invites us to lament and reflect on the black summer bush fires. It is a place of reckoning and the audience response in Qand A was all about "what can we do?"Art helps us to see what's invisible and Janet says blindness to nature breeds indifference. In front of her installation of waters made turbid by charcoal and dead matter left by the bushfires, many speakers such as Bruce Shillingsworth, urged us to think differently about mother earth and her lifeblood rivers. In an interview later Janet told me that the Art World did not easily accept her focus on climate change. But she does not want to plunge them into a defensive reaction and the sheer tenderness, the scale and the science behind her work is opening many minds.'I want you to linger': how Janet Laurence's art compels you to save the earth | Art and design | The Guardian Kerrie Leishman says that wind turbines create a new aesthetic. This challenges our usual idea of landscape. But like Janet Laurence she does not want to put us on the defensive. Her paintings are a subtle form of climate leadership taking us along as she comes to see the turbines as gentle giants. Her exhibition called "The New Beauty" was inspired by the wind farms at Waubra in Victoria.blog - Kerrie Leishman Paintings and Illustration Lucy Manne started the fossil Fuel Watch project during COVID. They report  on such things as  the media coverage of COVID recovery funds going  towards gas projects rather than the jobs rich care economy. They also report on the national conversation around citizens' rights to protest. One example recently is when the mining lobby portrayed community groups as "vexatious" Graeme Samuels found that such legal challenges are the "foundation of our democracy". She recommended that we watch the Greenpeace film "Dirty Money" and join 350.org in their campaign to "Fund our Future not Gas".She talks about the shift in energy resulting from the Biden Administration's climate policy in the USA.Will this help us turn a distant 2050 target to a manageable 2030 target for reducing carbon emissions to zero?Her women's day hero is Milly Telford founder of SeedMob. The campaign she wants us to support is the Torres Strait Islanders' landmark human rights complaint against the Australian Government. They say the government has not adequately reduced Greenhouse gas emissions or helped them adapt to changing climate conditions. Lucy herself is a shining example of women's leadership coming up from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and now as CEO.Australia – 350.org’s Fossil Fuel Watch project

SOUNDING THE ALARM FOR CLIMATE ACTIONMARCH 1ST 2021Produced by Vivien LangfordGuests:These are ARRCC members who are leading Sacred People Sacred Earth (arrcc.org.au)Tejopala Rawls  (Buddhist)  Fahimah Badrulhisham (Muslim ) Dr Byron Smith  (Christian)These are the film makers from the Transitions Film FestivalRob Innes Producer of the film YOUTH ONSTRIKE Maiysha - Yr 12 student and youth leader who vlogged for this fast paced film. Nathan Havey - Director of "Beyond Zero"Emmanuel Cappelin - Director of "Once you know" Action1. Please sign GreenFaith International's multi faith statement calling for a recovery from COVID which will help create a more just world order while tackling the climate crisis.It has been signed by hundreds of high-profile leaders of a wide range of faiths as well as regular people of faith and we'd love you to sign this and ask others to do the same. By March 11 we aim to have the signatures of thousands of religious leaders and individual people of faith and spirit.2. See the trailer  for Youth on Strike hereYouth On Strike! | Youth On Strike! & CitizenKid: Earth Comes First | Transitions Film Festival (eventive.org)Book your ticket to see it online at TICKETS & PASSES 2021 – Transitions Film Festival Millions of people from faith groups around the world will be sounding the alarm for Climate Action 11am on March 11th. It's the 11th hour and it heralds a year of action leading up to the UN Cop meeting in Glasgow in November. We'll talk to a Buddhist, a Muslim and a Christian and you may be surprised how radical they are.Then we go to the Transitions Film Festival. We'll hear about three films. Once you know, Beyond Zero and Youth on Strike.The long interview  will be with Rob Innes and Maiyesha but the other directors will speak to us at length in later shows.Climate Action is involving wider circles of people now. The students want to be at the decision making table not just because they are young but because we want to hear what they have to say about their future.