Our guests in The Tunnel – also known as The Sustainable Hour no 319, coming to you via Zoom – on 17 June 2020 are:

Belinda Noble, who is co-founder of the Communicators Declare movement. She was so impacted by the horrific bushfires raging through New South Wales and Queensland late last year that she felt she had to do something. She is a professional communicator, so she reached out to her industry for individuals and companies to declare that they’d have nothing to do with promoting any fossil fuel company or project.

First People’s leader Lidia Thorpe, who gives her views on true reconciliation in our country as well as the #BlackLivesMatter issue in Australia. 

Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook today looks at the following items:

– Firstly the parlous state of the Australian finances of the Adani company that hopes to build a controversial coal mine in Central Queensland and the incredible irony in what is keeping that company afloat here.

– We hear about the very successful grassroots campaign facilitated by Market Forces to make insurance companies, which are thinking about insuring that carbon bomb, see the error of their ways.

– We hear what the influential World Bank says will be the consequences if countries do not take real action on climate as they stimulate their economies post Covid-19 – as well as what will happen if they do.

Britain’s Got Talent had 10 million viewers watching an ‘SOS from the Kids’, who – through their lyrics – told the adults the inconvenient truths which keep being ignored. “We can do better than this,” they proclaimed.

We are truly fortunate to have such inspirational guests on our show. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did in making it. Till next time – be the difference: be aware, declare and act.

“Words matter. The pen is mightier than the sword, and our industries hold great influence over the messages that reach the public and the projects that gain social licence. For too long our industries have been helping companies that produce greenhouse gas pollution by furthering their interests and protecting their reputations. To have any chance of reaching net zero, communicators must be aware, declare and act.”~ Belinda Noble, co-founder of Communicators Declare

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