Guest in The Sustainble Hour on 5 June 2019 is Noel Emselle who invites all community members to a public forum, the Southern Bellarine Coastal Forum, on future development in the “green wedge” between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove on the 21 June 2019. The interview with him starts at 16:10 minutes.

Colin Mockett’s Global Outlook & World View takes a look at the 600 climate emergency declarations around the world, and on Finland’s declaration that it is going to be carbon neutral already in 2035.

Mik Aidt talks about the global coverage which a new Breakthrough-paper by Ian Dunlop and David Spratt is getting, ‘Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach’, and he has an announcement about a Primal Roar for the climate on Friday 7 June 2019, which whill take place in front of the city hall in Geelong at 11:59am.

We listen to an excerpt of author Paul Gilding’s speech, which he delivered at the first Climate Emergency Conference, which was held in Darebin in September 2018, and where he also commented on Greta Thunberg’s climate strike idea, which she started just three weeks earlier. We also play two excerpts from Greta Thunberg’s recent speech to world leaders when they met at a forum in Austria.

World Environment Day celebrates its 19th anniversary this Wednesday 5 June 2019, and we listen to a short but inspiring clip with UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres where he talks about the common sense approach to speed up of things that we’d want to happen anyway, such as cleaning our cities, oceans and the air from pollution.

We realise we can’t explain the Australian governments bizarre obsession with coal, especially after having listened to an excerpt from this ABC interview with Richard Denniss, Australia Institute’s chief economist, about the ridiculous economic prospects of the Adani mine, which is going to create just 100 jobs at an enourmous expense on the Australian society’s behalf.

Q&A on ABC this Monday was about energy, and had a range of debates worth watching.

“Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility.”~ Pope Francis – in a tweet on 19 June 2015.