The Sustainable Hour no 326

Our guests in The Tunnel on 5 August 2020, as we get organised for the Hiatus, are: Fifth-year law student Katta O’Donnell who is courageously taking the Australian Government to court on the grounds that they haven’t given the market clear signals about the climate risks in people’s investments. This is a world-first legal action which we and the entire climate activist movement will be following with a great deal of interest.

And podcast blogger Sarah Josephine Liberty, who has just moved back to Australia after a number of years studying and working overseas. She is an outspoken climate and human rights activist, who recently formed a not-for-profit initiative, JustSocial, focusing on online human rights.

We are sure that you’ll enjoy the interaction between these two determined young ladies who are determined to make a contribution to a safer, more just and healthy world.

As usual Colin Mockett’s Global Outlook is full of interest. Today he has three items: In his words, “one good, one bad & one that could go either way.”Firstly the good, which takes us to New York and tells us about a long overdue climate advisory committee which will consist of seven young people from seven different countries. This committee has been established by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to advise him on climate.Colin’s second item is the bad. It centres on a research report that has just been released by the Australia Institute. The title “A War on Renewables” gives us a good insight into our current government’s unwillingness and inability to transition us away from toxic fossil fuels.Finally in the category of ‘could go either way’ Colin tells us of the recent courageous decision made by James Murdoch to move away from his family’s media empire and gives the reason for him doing this. His resignation is generally understood to be on the basis of Newscorp’s climate change denialism. No doubt we’ll be hearing more about this in future shows.

If you like what we present each week, please share us far and wide. We’ll be back with more interesting and dynamic solution seekers this time next week, and until then: Live the difference!

“I think the change needs to come from everyone and not be left to young people. But unfortunately it is us and vulnerable communities that will suffer the most.”~ Katta O’Donnell, law student, 23

→ Subscribe to The Sustainable Hour podcast via iTunes or Stitcher

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”~ Jane Goodall, British ethologist