CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

August 7th 2023

Produced by Vivien Langford

KICK PROFITEERS OUT OF THE DRIVER'S SEAT

FORESTRY, COAL AND  OUR FUTURE

Guests :

Professor Christopher Wright - Sydney University co author of Organising Responses to Climate Change 'The barriers to climate action today aren't technological. They're political. Read this book to understand how polluters have created obstacles to the task of decarbonization and how we can fight back.' Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University and author of The New Climate War

Organising Responses to Climate Change by Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden - 9781009266949 - Dymocks

Miree Leroy - Move Beyond Coal on their win for people power. NAB says no to financing Whitehaven Coal - Move Beyond Coal

Australia has a big coal problem
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of coal – the number one cause of climate change. Right now, corporations are planning to dig more new coal projects in Australia than anywhere else on the planet.

It doesn't matter where Australia's coal is burned, people everywhere are facing the impacts here and now, with catastrophic floods, bushfires, heat waves, droughts, and more extreme weather events.

We have a responsibility to act.

Dorothee Babeck - Bob Brown Foundation on AUGUST URGENT  NATIONWIDE campaign to Protect our forests 

Action - Defend the Giants - August 12th in Sydney at Addison Rd Centre Marrickville

                                           - August 12th in Melbourne 11am Parliament steps + 10 other cities

In the year of THE VOICE, First Nations people's voice is being strong armed off the scene. Watch this video and weep. 

(671) Gumbaynggirr Forests 50fps - YouTube

This is the authentic voice of Gumbaynggirr elders as police move them out of Newry State forest and allow loggers in.

https://nit.com.au/31-07-2023/7001/elders-physically-removed-from-sacred-land?fbclid=IwAR1uuNF_y4HG-uMpZ7GoqaX5r_h42Cc-aj_EUSPI5eXFHwUAWuP9gIqhPSM

We know that native forest logging in New South Wales is economically wasteful, costing the taxpayer millions of dollars each year to prop up a loss-making industry. What’s worse, is that these subsidies are paying for ecological destruction, the loss of our critical carbon stocks, and the extinction of species like the Koala and the greater Glider.

Our native forests can be most beneficial to us by being protected and being allowed to continue to grow, to store carbon and to provide healthy ecosystems for people and animals alike.

We call on the Treasurer to stop prolonging the inevitable. We want to see a rapid and ambitious end to native forest logging outlined in the next Statement of Corporate Intent.