The Climate Action Show

17th May 2021 Produced by Vivien Langford

TIM FLANNERY AT THIRROUL
AN EXTINCTION REBELLION PICNIC 

Guests

Professor Tim Flannery- The Climate Council, Author of  The Climate Cure

Text Publishing — The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency 

Wollongong can prosper from a future without coal, Flannery says | Illawarra Mercury | Wollongong, NSW

Mithra Cox -  Wollongong Councillor for the Greens, Musician with The Lurkers

Sharon Posell and Craig Peritt - Protect our Water Alliance. POWA

HOME | Protect Our Water Alliance | Wollongong

Olatunji - Poet at the picnic

IKNAG - Illawarra Knitting Nannas against gas 

The Femmes Fatales - Wild brass band led by Mel Wishart

Funeral band Les Femmes Fatales performs feminist protest act at HONK! Oz - ABC News

Naia Webb - Illawara Climate Action Network

The Illawarra Climate Coalition - Home | Facebook

THIRROUL

This is coal country south of Sydney.

The Illawarra escarpment looming over Extinction Rebellion's picnic is riddled with coal mines. Many of them are causing damage to the river beds and swamps above with losses to Sydney's drinking water catchment.

DH Lawrence and Frieda stayed at Thirroul and they would have loved the celebration of life that XR brings to the contemplation of climate catastrophe. The brass band with its melodramatic funeral march,  the children making tomb stones for lost species and the serious speakers were not at all macabre.In the background you will hear cockatoos screeching home to roost and children pelting across the grass in sack races.

Tim Flannery told us that the Earth's climate System sets the deadlines not politicians. He now lives in this community and is energised by the battle ahead, as they make the transition from coal and gas.

Mithra Cox talked about being on council and how we must elect climate activists. Her long experience as a musician supporting many causes has given her the courage to be a leader.

Craig Peritt from POWA has worked in the mines and has seen the water gushing in from cracks in the riverbeds. His dream is for green steel at Port Kembla. Will Twiggy Forrest make it a reality? He said our role as activists is to be informed, to be constructively angry, smart and well organised.

Sharon Possel explained just what it took for this community to succesfully stop  an  extension of the Dendrobium Coal mine.Dendrobium coal mine expansion rejected by planning commission, John Barilaro vows to overturn ruling - ABC News

Millions in federal budget for Port Kembla hydrogen-fuelled power plant | Illawarra Mercury | Wollongong, NSW

There is so much more to this programme than the named leaders. You will hear the voice of a child of five and three quarters who witnessed the 2020 Bushfires, there's a poet and  many climate activists, young and old who are energetically making the transition away from the industries and jobs of the past.

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