In The Sustainable Hour on 4 July 2018, we talk with Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super, and professor Lesley Hughes, founding member of the Climate Council and a lead author on the International Panel on Climate Change’s latest two reports. We play a peer-reviewed rap song about IPCC for her – by Baba Brinkman.

Colin Mockett’s Global Outlook contains a special message to our listeners, and we play a new video from The Terminator with a special message to both Trump and Turnbull.

The Terminator’s take on renewables

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i’m still offering 10-to-1 odds that there won’t be a new coal fired power station generating within 10 years.

no takers? not even you @PaulineHansonOz?https://t.co/yDZLLDpnJh

— simon holmes à court (@simonahac) June 27, 2018

“It’s a shameful fact: The older generation bears the responsibility for climate change but the younger generation will suffer its disastrous consequences.” 

~ Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO, We Don’t Have Time

» Washington Post – 3 July 2018:

Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week

» CNN – 6 July 2018:

Blistering heat wave claims 54 lives in Quebec

“A blistering heat swept through parts of Canada this week, killing 54 people in the province of Quebec, according to health officials. Twenty-eight of the deaths were in Montreal, said Marie-Claude Lacasse with the Ministry of Health. Many of the victims were older than 50, male, living alone and had no air conditioning.”

“Political cesspit in Canberra is utterly failing Australians”

“We are more exposed to the impact of this warming than any other continent. Drought is in full swing, farming land is rendered increasingly unproductive; this process will accelerate, with impact across society. We are totally unprepared for what is now developing. The first priority of government is the security of the people. The political cesspit in Canberra is utterly failin...