“The time has come / to pay our share.”

~ Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’, 1987

The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a full stop to the Adani coal megamine in Queensland.

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 19 September 2018, who explains how we will stop Adani, is Charlie Wood from Tipping Point and the #StopAdani movement’s Melbourne HQ.

By royal appointment… Colin Mockett’s World Outlook this week is about a letter he received from the Queen – Australia’s head of state – about the many things she does for sustainability, including responsibly reducing carbon emissions, just like Australia ought to do it as well.

We talk with Jim Crosthwaite, Phil Papas and Max Finlayson about the Wetland Carbon Workshop they run on 18 and 19 September in Melbourne – and with one of the speakers at the workshop, Gene Blackley, who is starting up the ambitious project Drawdown Australia and is looking for people who would like to join him on that journey.

We play an excerpt from Tom Ballard’s brilliant ‘climate change explanation’ on the ABC.

We play a verse from Midnight Oil’s ‘Beds are burning’, and we round the hour off with ‘Stand Up Stand N Rock’, a song from the anti-pipeline protests in the United States.

 

“I don’t hear anyone talking about the tens of thousands of jobs that are currently being created in the solar industry alone in Queensland. The more than 1,500 ongoing jobs that are being created, which is more than Adani’s mine. And these are jobs that are not going to destroy our environment and our economy. I don’t hear anyone talking about the 70,000 jobs in the Reef industry that will be damaged by Adani’s mine if it goes ahead. If we are really concerned about jobs, why aren’t we talking about these issues?”

~ Charlie Wood in The Sustainable Hour

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