Welcome listeners and readers. The Sustainable Hour team of Mik, Jackie, Colin & Tony welcome you to show no 317.

The first of our three guests on 3 June 2020 is Anika Molesworth who helps run her parents’ station near Broken Hill. Anika is a natural leader. She was one of the founding members of Farmers for Climate Action. As someone who lives on the front lines of climate change on very marginal farming, she speaks with great authority on what needs to happen to help us face up to the climate emergency we face. 

Following Anika, we have Adrian Drew. Our regular listeners may remember the glowing report Mik gave after he visited Adrian’s land last year. Today Adrian proudly tells us about how his land is looking at the moment – his hard work there is paying off. He also talks about another project he’s involved in together with The Australian Landscape Science Institute – a project to form a national body of regenerative farmers. We’ll follow this one with a great deal of interest.

Our third guest for today is Christian Slattery who is the Australian Conservation Foundation‘s senior Stop Adani campaigner. Christian gives the latest on what is happening at this very controversial mining site. Although work has started up there, he confidently outlines that it can still be stopped if every person who is concerned about it use the readily available campaign tools to contact businesses who are deciding whether to support this carbon bomb or not. These tools have been successful in making 67 companies realise that it wasn’t in their long term interests to get involved in such an unpopular project.

Last week in his Global Outlook, Colin Mockett talked about the recent decision by the European Commission to implement their Green New Deal as a major part of their post cover economic stimulus. This week Colin goes into more specific detail about the actual amount they are going to allocate and what it will go towards. It makes the Australian ‘Roadmap to Economic Recovery’ look very, very ordinary. Once again, he heaps praise on their chairperson Ursula von der Leyen as he outlines one of the three pillars on which they’ll be concentrating. The total they have allocated is 1.85 trillion euros – that’s approximately $4 trillion Australian dollars, as they strive to become the first climate-neutral continent.

We hope that you get as much out of listening to us today as we did in producing it.

Until next week, #BeTheDifference

“I am also very optimistic that we can transition to a renewable energy low carbon society because we’ve got the knowledge, we’ve got the skills, we’ve got the technology to do that – it’s a matter of the will power, the determination to change the way we currently live.”~ Anika Molesworth, Farmers for Climate Action