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Safe Climate news - June 3, 2010
Safe climate news - June 3, 2010
 Safe Climate Newsletter 3rd June, 2010 |
Dear friends and supporters,
Welcome to the June 3 Safe Climate newsletter. Please email us if
you have suggestions for the next newsletter. If you'd like to join the
Safe Climate activist discussion list, just let us know. Contact us on info@safeclimate.org.au.
SATURDAY 5th JUNE
World
Environment Day
EcoFair cancelled
Because
of the weather, and roadwork next to Forrest Place, Environment House
has had to cancel the planned EcoFair this Saturday.
We have a community survey on renewable energy and information about the coming coal national day of action to distribute, so let us know if you want to join Safe Climate activists at a World Environment Day campaigning stall in the city, 11am-1pm.
Phone Kamala 0417 319662 or Peter 0438940386 for more information.
Coming Events
New
Climate Action Group forming - Hasluck electorate
Peter is looking to start a climate
action group
for the electorate of Hasluck. There will be an initial meeting this
Thursday, 3rd June at 7pm in Guildford. So if you live in or near the
suburbs of Guildford, Swan Valley, Forrestfield, Wattle Grove, Midland,
Gosnells, Kalamunda, Maddington, Thornlie and are interested in getting
involved please ring 0438 940 386 or email peter.langlands@grs.uwa.edu.au for details.
FRIDAY 11 JUNE, 7PM
In
Transition
La Tropicana Cafe, High St, Fremantle.
A film which captures the motivations of residents wanting to start a community garden in East Fremantle. Plus music, discussion and other short films. Entry by donation.
Ph Del Weston 9339 0803.
SATURDAY, 12TH JUNE, 2-4PM
Safe
Climate meeting
City Farm, 1 City Farm Place, East Perth (just next to
Claisebrook station)
Help us build the campaign to phase out coal and expand renewables. We will be planning the Perth component of the national day of action on coal, on July 17. Put your creative energy to good use and help us come up with plans for a high-impact event to pressure state and federal politicians to stop the expansion of coal-fired power stations in WA, begin Australia's phase-out by closing Hazelwood, the world's dirtiest coal-fired power station, and start the transition to 100% renewables.
Phone Kamala 0417 319662 or Peter 0438940386 for more information.
TUESDAY 13 JULY, 1-4PM
Climate
Change Policy in WA, Australia and the World: what next?
Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography Bldg, UWA
Organised by the
Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA
After the widely perceived
failure of the Copenhagen climate change conference, the absence of any
post-2012 international climate change agreement and an Australian
emissions trading scheme now deferred until at least 2013, what’s next
for climate change policy in WA, Australia and the world?
Free event - registration by July 6th essential.
SATURDAY JULY 17, 12 NOON
EXPAND
RENEWABLES - PHASE OUT COAL!
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
The number of coal-fired power stations in WA is set to more than double by 2013.
Join us to demand:
- no new coal-fired power stations in WA
- replace Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power station with renewables
- 100% renewables by 2020
SafeClimate in Action
The Safe Climate Coalition took part in May 2 launch of the 100%
renewables campaign.
This photo includes a hastily assembled group of supporters of 100%
renewable energy at the May Day march in Fremantle on May 1.
Visit the national website at: www.100percent.org.au
Climate News
In a perverse twist but in keeping with the mentality of burying ones head in the sand, Professor Ian Plimer, one of Australia's primo deniosaurs, was one of the headline speakers at "Critical Horizons" and was speaking on "Why I am skeptical about human-induced climate change".
Activists from Climate Action Bunbury had an important message (and a "Deniosaur of the Year, 2010" award) for Plimer and those seduced by his too-easy message.
AMWU adopts motion for 100 per cent renewable
energy by 2020
The WA branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union took the
exciting step of adopting the following motion which calls for 100%
renewable energy by 2002. The motion was proposed by John Sharp-Collett,
Secretary of the Retired Members Division. It was adopted on 27 May
2010 at the WA state conference of the AMWU.
100% renewable energy by 2020 motion
Conference
notes and supports the union policy on uranium mining however till date
very little has been done to implement this policy while the pro
uranium lobby continues to roll on and in fact is becoming more
confident as they hitch their band wagon to climate change. They argue
that nuclear energy is necessary as part of the energy mix which is not
correct.
The delay in the uptake of renewable energy is historically due to the
fact that the fossil fuel lobby has been able to dominate energy policy
even today this is the case. A business as usual model will not address
the urgency of climate change.
100% renewable energy by 2020 is achievable. It is also necessary to
combat climate change in such a manner as to negate the pro uranium
lobby. The 100% renewable energy by 2020 is an international campaign
that we need to not only support but be prepared to take action in
support thereby attaining a nuclear free future.
Pictured: AMWU state vice president Dave Fox and state secretary
Steve McCartney supporting the new policy
PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT OF COCHABAMBA
Announced at the World People's
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, April 22,
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger.
If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead to, there is a 50% probability that the damages caused to our Mother Earth will be completely irreversible. Between 20% and 30% of species would be in danger of disappearing. Large extensions of forest would be affected, droughts and floods would affect different regions of the planet, deserts would expand, and the melting of the polar ice caps and the glaciers in the Andes and Himalayas would worsen. Many island states would disappear, and Africa would suffer an increase in temperature of more than 3 degrees Celsius. Likewise, the production of food would diminish in the world, causing catastrophic impact on the survival of inhabitants from vast regions in the planet, and the number of people in the world suffering from hunger would increase dramatically, a figure that already exceeds 1.02 billion people.The corporations and governments of the so-called “developed” countries, in complicity with a segment of the scientific community, have led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system.
We confront the terminal crisis of a civilizing model that is
patriarchal and based on the submission and destruction of human beings
and nature that accelerated since the industrial revolution.
more here - and follow the links for other outcomes of this historic gathering of the global climate movement
Are we all
climate deniers? Clive Hamilton writes:
It’s easy to jeer at the climate deniers for their obtuseness and fantastic theories.
But aren’t we all, by one means or another, denying the reality of a warming world?
Even a very optimistic set of assumptions about when global emissions will reach a peak and the rate at which they will then decline will see the world warm by around 4°C by the 2070s. That will make the Earth hotter than at any time for the last 15 million years. And of course the temperature will not stabilise at that level because feedback effects will have taken control of the Earth’s climate out of our hands.
New Scientist Special report: Living in denial
Replace Hazelwood Campaign launched
Watch the video and check out what campaigners in Victoria are doing to replace the dirtiest coal fired power station in the industrialised world.
http://www.replacehazelwood.
Carbon scheme 'will create millions of jobs'
Get in touch with a climate action group near you
Climate Action Bunbury Phone SouthWest Environment Centre and leave a message 9791 3210.
Hasluck electorate climate action group - watch this space. Contact
Peter, 0438 940386.
Hills Sustainability Group -
meets in Darlington. Contact Leonie leoniecampbell@
Leederville - Contact George on crisps@westnet.com.au
Margaret River Climate Action Group vicstroud@highway1.com.au
Rockingham Climate Action Group rcag@iinet.net.au
Safe Climate Perth Meets Saturday fortnightly at City Farm. Phone Kamala 9228 0802, Peter 0438 940386. mailto:info@safeclimate.org.au
If you know other Climate Action Groups that are up and running or about to get started, drop us a line so we can help get the word out!
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