Australia's attitude 'Nothing short of alarming'

Australia’s official attitude toward dealing with climate change is “Nothing short of alarming”.

 

That is the view of the organizers of this coming weekend’s “Australian Climate Action Summit 2014”.

“The lack of political will to address climate change is nothing short of alarming, and the dismantling of climate policy a step backwards at a critical point.

“But a civil society movement,” it said in encouraging people to attend the action summit, “is growing from the grass roots and up, and now is your chance to get involved”.

Speakers at the Brisbane event, at Queensland University of Technology’s Gardens Point campus will be peak oil and finance analyst, Nicole Foss; the Climate Council’s Will Steffen, Doing it Ourselves Theo Kitchener; Sustainability Showcase’s Kari McGregor; thinker, advisor and comedian, Rod Quantock; UK ecocide lawyer, Polly Higgins; Generation Alpha’s Ben Pennings; and Jane O’Sullivan from Sustainable Population Australia.