Supporting sensible climate policy

December 1, 2023

As a fellow concerned parent, I admired and supported Gregory Andrews brave hunger strike for climate action. Even the most optimistic emissions reductions scenario presented by the UN offers just a 14 per cent chance that humanity will keep global heating below a safer 1.5 degrees. Given this, the Albanese governments continued support for gas, approval of four coal mines, and unwillingness to rein in native forest logging is unacceptable. Climate change impacts are already hurting communities across Australia. What will life be like for our children? Andrews five demands of the federal government ending fossil fuel subsidies, an urgent phase out of coal and gas exports, end logging native forests, updating the EPBC Act to include climate impacts, and releasing the Climate Risk Assessment report – are both evidence-based and sensible. If only decision makers would listen to scientific fact.

Sources: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/nations-must-go-further-current-paris-pledges-or-face-global-warming https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/climatehungerstrike