Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ — also known as Zoom, where The Sustainable Hour no 320 is recorded during the coronavirus lockdown — on 24 June 2020 are:

Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne: Six years ago, we met a very passionate 15-and-a-half-year-old year 10 student who had just started as a volunteer for Friends of the Earth in Melbourne. Today Anna Langford returns to The Sustainable Hour as an organiser for the organisation’s Act on Climate Collective to tell us about their recently campaign to get the Andrews government to set real targets to address the climate emergency we face. We see that Anna has lost none of that passion and commitment to the task at hand as she combines this work with her university studies.Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone: Sonia worked for many years as a journalist, both in Malaysia and in Australia. She has done a lot of work on how to implement Citizens’ Assemblies in Australia. The germ of an idea of having one in Geelong before the local government elections in October has life breathed into it during our chat with Sonia.

Colin Mockett‘s global outlook: In this week’s show Colin looks at Australia’s international ranking in a number of sustainability indices. While there are some overall improvements, we still have a long way to go. One particular area where we fit that category is emissions from cars and numbers of electric vehicles sold. Meanwhile, Denmark – where the government currently is introducing a carbon tax – tops the list.

To round off this week’s Sustainable Hour, we hear an extract from a recent powerful talk by climate teen hero Greta Thunberg. It’s an excerpt from the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation program ‘Summer on P1’  which occurred on 20 June 2020, titled: ‘Humanity has not yet failed’. “Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible,” Thunberg says in the program where she takes us along her trip to the front lines of the climate crisis. You can listen to her entire talk here.In-between Anna, Sonia and Greta, we hear music from Australian Tones & I: ‘The Kids Are Coming’.

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“The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today’s political and economic systems. That isn’t an opinion. That’s a fact.”~ Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist

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