“We are going to change the fate of humanity.”~ Youth climate strikers, in an open letter

We open the hour with a clip with Greta Thunberg speaking at the school strike in Hamburg on Friday: “Yes we are angry. Because the older generation are continuing to stealing our future, right now. We will not let them do that anymore. We will continue to school-strike until they do something,” she says. Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 6 March 2019 are: [00:48] Geelong youth striker: Noemi Walton, student at Kardinia International College, who is organising the Geelong school strike on 15 March. Meet at 9am in Yarra Street at Richard Marles office, Member for Corio in Federal Parliament. [09:00] Colin Mockett‘s World View — about what you don’t see on the news: today it’s about Taiwan’s 75 per cent emissions reduction 2030 target, and the United Kingdom’s water policy. [16:42] Rod Lowther, president of Geelong Field Naturalists Club, promotes their Geelong and District Nature Forum as a follow-up to the school strike, taking place at Geelong Library on Saturday 16 March from 9am to 4pm – free entry. [32:50] Castlemaine youth strikers: Piper, Rachelle and Charlie talk about persistence: why their youth strike movement is not going to go away until the adults take action on the climate crisis.

[38:43] Noemi Walton reads an open letter from the global climate strike coordination group [44:31] Climate emergency competition idea: Zelly Been, 13, from Adelaide asks: which Australian state capital will be the first to declare a climate emergency? The race is on. [40:45] Climate bashing: In her Sustainable People series, Lene Outzen Foghsgaard tests the waters when it comes to how we talk with each other about the climate crisis without pushing anyone away. “We need to talk about our Mother Earth and the state of crisis she is in, but how do we do that?”, Lene asks Ariane and Emilie. Ariane is the mom of her boys friend, and Emilie is a receptionist at the Physio, where she comes. She knows them a bit and maybe that’s part of the recipe. Sustainable People next week is also about ‘climate bashing’.

Andrea Robertson

“Along with the Sustainable Hour crew, I support the Students for Climate strike. These kids are missing out on school so that they can tell our politicians to take their future seriously and treat climate change for what it is: a crisis. Support these kids as best you can. And as an adult who can vote,