Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 6 November 2019 are Geelong’s new mayor and deputy mayor, Stephanie Asher and Kylie Grzybek for an important conversation about leadership and how best to bring both Council staff, businesses and rate payers with us to help solve complex and collective problems in our community such as the current recycling crisis and the climate emergency.

Colin Mockett starts off the hour with a climate emergency declaration from 11,000 scientists, which is all over mainstream news this morning. He also tells the story about how one by one, portraits of the French president Emmanuel Macron are disappearing from town halls across France in an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push the president to do more to fight climate change.

We play a clip from a new Danish tv documentary about Australia, ‘The Drought Drives me Crazy’, which was screened on the Danish equivalent to the ABC, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, on Monday night, and which allegedly left a strong impression on the Danish viewers. Journalist and producer Jacob Crogh’s message was: “Australia is the world’s largest emitter of carbon pollution per capita. In spite of the fact that the country is already hit hard by the climate emergency, the population in general, including the drought-hit farmers and even the government is in complete denial about the problem.”

We play the song ‘The Change of Climate’, and round off the hour with Missy Higgins’ ‘The Difference’, and Jamiroquai’s ‘Emergency on Planet Earth’

“I think we need to actually really step up our game. So we will be part of trying to raise awareness, talking to people, educate people. (…) Do have patience with us, because we are actually all on the same side. We don’t want to be fighting battles to stop things happening. We are actually all heading in the same direction. It is just a matter of time. We have to bring everyone with us. We want to have as many people supporting the same action as possible, because then it gets easier.”~ Stephanie Asher, Geelong Mayor, in The Sustainable Hour on 6 November 2019

Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 292 on 94.7 The Pulse: