The Sustainable Hour no 342In The Tunnel on 25 November 2020, we have three guests, all doing very much different things, but all with the same aim: The aim of being active participants in solutions to the chaotic place where business-as-usual will take us.

Anisa Rogers has been very active over the last few weeks organising an outstanding online forum that is running counter to the International Mining & Resources Conference, IMARC. The conference runs in Melbourne each year at this time. This year, while in their hiatus, Anisa and others from Front Line Action on Coal (FLAC) decided to run ‘Blockade IMARC’ via Zoom. The incredible fruits of their efforts will be rolled out till this coming Sunday 29 November. To see their program, go to www.blockadeimarc.org.au.

Carina Mammone from Tomorrow Movement co-founded this group with the aim of creating an unstoppable movement of young people fighting for a society with good healthy jobs, great public services with safety nets and a safe climate for all.

Saimon Boyle from Urban Farm and House tells us of the risk he took in leaving his stable, but unfulfilling job a couple of years ago and starting his own business. A risk he has no regrets about as his business grows.

We start the hour with a recording from the Japanese Parliament on 19 November, where the Japanese minister for the environment, Koizumi, said: “The world is facing a climate emergency”, and had the entire hall of parliamentarians stand up up in acknowledgement of his proposal that Japan – the world’s third largest economy – declares a climate emergency and now will “radically strengthen its efforts toward the realisation of a carbon-free society – as soon as possible.”

Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook has a number of examples of extreme weather events that haven’t been mentioned on our mainstream media: Out of control fires since July in South America, a cyclone in Honduras with multiple deaths, extreme record breaking heat in our country and extreme fossil fuel driven air pollution in India.To counterbalance these negatives he tells us of energy requirement laws brought in by San Francisco’s local government authority as well as England’s conservative leader Boris Johnson’s exciting 10 point plan to counter the climate crisis we all face. The big question he leaves us with is: When will our LNP government come up with a similar plan?

Till we return next Wednesday: Live the difference!

“By 2050 Australia will experience economic losses on par with COVID every single year if we don’t address climate change. That would compromise the economic future of all future generations of Australians.”~ Pradeep Philip, Deloitte’s principal report author