Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 October 2018 are Damien Cole – a surfer, campaigner against oil drilling in the Bight and independent South Barwon candidate in the November state election – and Peter Cowling, Vesta’s Country Head for Australia and New Zealand.

We also play a clip with the American professor of economics Jeffrey Sachs who was panellist in ABC’s Q&A program on 15 October 2018, with energy investor Alex Turnbull, and with former Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. We round off the hour with the song ‘The Difference’ by Missy Higgins.

 

“We all have to work together in order to get this done. It is absolutely imperative that we do not make it a political issue. This is not the right versus the left, because there is no liberal air or conservative air. We all breathe the same air.”

~ Arnold Schwartzenegger, former governor of California, 23 June 2017

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Skolstrejk, Stockholm 19 oktober. #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture #climatestrike pic.twitter.com/IVqR1QB5fx

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) October 19, 2018

 EDITORIAL: 

The renewable turnaround time

Here is my prediction: The Australian politicians in Canberra who think they can get away with ignoring the new IPCC report, as we currently see them doing it, will in just a couple of years look back at this decision as one of the biggest and most embarrassing, even shameful, mistakes in their entire careers as politicians. It is going to cost them their job.

By Mik Aidt

The Liberal, National and Labor parties all need to quickly get back on track with reality if they wish to have a political future.

It’s not even up for debate.

The work ahead of us in order to keep temperatures at or below 1.5°C degrees is crystal clear – and clean: We need to shut down coal and stop the Adani mega-mine.

Parties and politicians who don’t get that – and currently neither of the three major parties in Australian politics seem to get that – will get a big surprise soon. Sentiments among their traditionally faithful voters are changing very,