Electronic trail leads to an interesting story

by Robert McLean

An electronic trail led me to a story well-worth the few minutes it takes to read and confirms a personally belief.

Svein Tveitdal.

It all began with a tweet from a former Director at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Environmental Ambassador to the Norwegian city of Arendal, Svein Tveitdal.

He urged those he tweeted to read and consider an op-ed piece in the San Gabriel Tribune headed “The longer we wait on global warming .. . .” written by Pasadena geophysicist, Bryan Killett.

Discussing his family’s switch to energy efficient light bulbs, Killett wrote: “Individual actions aren’t enough; we desperately need real leadership at the national level. At the very least, we should stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry”.

The science communicator, Julian Cribb, recently spoke in Shepparton and while discussing the collision of circumstances with the potential to destabilize the world’s populations he argued the real difficulties would not be for existing generations, rather their children and grandchildren.

Cribb’s reason for visiting the Goulburn Valley was to discuss food security and in answer to a question about what action people should take, he suggested that the urgency of the matter be constantly brought before our decision makers.

In effect, what he was saying was that we can no longer continue with “business as usual”, but needed courageous and visionary leaders willing to help us understand and address new ways of living.

To repeat Killett: “we desperately need real leadership at the national level”.