The Climate Commission's first report released today is titled "The Critical Decade". It warns that our decisions this decade will determine whether our children will spend their lives struggling with a climate out of control. Will Steffen, the report's author and professor of climate change at ANU warns that we need a clean energy revolution starting now. We need to decarbonise our economy and way of life and move to clean energy, now. If we fail to do this we will miss the last remaining opportunity to safeguard the future.
You'd think that a message like this would preoccupy the nation's thinking, dominate news broadcasts and stop us in our tracks. You'd think every one of us would be imploring governments to facilitate this transition to renewable energy at the very least for the sake of our children and grand children. And talking to our neighbours about what more each of us could do to pull our weight. That political parties would stop arguing and legislate today to reduce our carbon emissions, the proven cause of this, the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. And the 17 government subsidies of the fossil fuel industry would be transferred to industries waiting in the wings to build a renewable energy future. That groups like BZE with its costed plan for transitioning to renewable stationary energy within a decade would be consulted about how to do it.
But none of this is happening. It's just business as usual. What will it take to move us to demand a change of direction necessary to safeguard the future?
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