As young people all over the world mobilise in support of Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future climate strike movement, taking to the streets on Friday with more than 1,600 events, a bunch of old fellas in Australia have started making up for the lack of action when they were younger.

Our first guest is Dr John Merory. John who was a surgeon for many years and wasn’t able to act on his climate concerns because of the demanding nature of his work, as the news got worse and worse. He is making up for that now in his retirement, when, like many people, he has devoted his life to working on climate solutions. With John we range widely on things like public transport, lowering our own carbon footprint and population, a topic we agreed to get him back on to discuss.

Our second guest for today is Robert Patterson from #MassMailoutForClimate. Regular listeners would remember that Robert was a guest at the start of the month, so we decided that, as we approach the end of September deadline for getting letters of climate concern to our federal politicians in support of Zali Steggall’s Climate Bill, it was a good time for an update. As we all know, the best way to get to politicians is in numbers.

We wholeheartedly support Robert in this endeavour – if you haven’t sent your letter(s) off yet, there’s still time. Deadline is 30 September. Go to www.massmailoutforclimate.org and you’ll find everything you need – an easy way of offsetting a bit of your climate concern and adding to the numbers.

A satirical piece from “A Rational Fear” starts us off in The Tunnel on 22 September 2021 with its “Coal Keeper” advertisement. Once again, the target is our current federal government and their lack of appetite to wean us off fossil fuels and the money that flows from coal, oil and gas companies to our major political parties.

Mik Aidt then guides us through one of Sunday’s newspapers. It takes him up to the bottom of page 25 where he finds the first mention of the climate crisis we face. While it is barely noticeable, the words of the headline, ‘Earth on path to catastrophe’, does sound like something which in a normal and sane world would be considered front cover material. After all, if the world is on path to a catastrophe, wouldn’t that be something we would want to know about? Needless to say, it’s a Murdoch paper, as are the majority of the newspapers in Australia. However, none of the independent news providers, not event the public broadcaster, did anything different. They merely quoted the United Nations’ report on the topic, and then quickly went on with much more important issues, such as Covid-figures, footie results and a new fashion design.

An interesting discussion then follows: a comparison to how the BBC are covering climate, studies looking at