Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 15 May 2019 are from the Australian climate action community:

Caroline Danaher, the persistent and outraged pensioner who was arrested last Friday at Sarah Henderson’s office.

Greg Rolles, a geography teacher from Gembrook, Victoria, who turned into a direct action climate activist and is currently facing court on charges arising out of his protesting against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. The outcome of his case will depend on whether the judge accepts the foundation of his argument that “Climate change is an extraordinary emergency.”

Kammy Cordner Hunt, scientist and candidate running for Independents for Climate Action Now, ICAN, in the federal election for the Victorian seat in the Senate. She is interviewed about the climate emergency by Mitchell Dye in Mitchell’s Front Page on 94.7 The Pulse.

Ian Arthur from the New Democratic Party in Canada put forward a motion to declare a climate emergency in Ontario and gave an impassioned speech about his reasons for this in the debate in council chambers. Eventually Premier Doug Ford and the Ontario PC Party voted the motion down.

Colin Mockett’s Global Outlook and World View is about a UN climate emergency forum on the Fiji Islands, which Australia decided not to send a representative to.

We also play Nat Harris‘ new rap-song ‘The Call Out’, and we end with a clip from The Project. More below.

“A climate emergency declaration is kind of like a restart button for us to go into the future.”~ Kammy Cordner Hunt, scientist and candidate running for Independents for Climate Action Now

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Rapper: “Young people can be the change this election”

Nat Harris’ new video ‘The Call Out’, filmed by Richard Garcia, uses the power of music to urge young voters to vote and make a difference at this Saturday’s federal election.

“There is a climate emergency and we need politicians who are bold and believe in change so we can avoid apocalyptic environmental changes,