We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a parent’s role and responsibility in that respect, consumer power and not waiting for the government, and how using nature to draw carbon down from the atmosphere could mean the future won’t be as scary as it more and more often is being described.

Guests in the studio are Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils Australia, member of Citizens Climate Lobby and a regenerative farming researcher, and Lene Fogsgaard, a Danish journalist based in Melbourne.

Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student, was interviewed in Stockholm by Janine O’Keeffe.

Gillian Sanbrook, regenerative farmer in drought-stricken New South Wales, who rehydrates the landscape and works with nature. She was recently featured in The Land as being very resilient when neighbouring properties are struggling with drought.

Colin Mockett today takes a look at the world’s largest solar plant, which is under construction in Egypt.

We also listen to a range of American climate change and carbon fee perspectives – by atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, economist Jeffrey Sachs, senator Sheldon Whitehouse, philosopher and historian Noam Chomsky, and the peer-reviewed rapper Baba Brinkman, who has written some sharp and relevant lyrics for this hour in his song ‘Makin Waves’.

 

15-year-old Greta has a message to the world

“If the adults don’t care about my future, why should I?”

~ Greta Thunberg, Swedish student on school strike for the climate

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One 15 year old girl in front of the Swedish parliament is striking from School until Election Day in 3 weeks

Imagine how lonely she must feel in this picture. People where just walking by. Continuing with the business as usual thing. But the truth is. We can’t and she knows it! pic.twitter.