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| Philip Sutton - wants an ethical response to global warming. |
The Save the Planet
candidate for the Batman electorate in the forthcoming July 2 election, Philip
Sutton, says a safe climate policy would also be ethical.
“We have to start with what we care for or care about. A
comprehensive ethic would care for all people and all species, world-wide,” he
said.
Philip said the real test of this commitment would be to
protect the most vulnerable people and species globally.
“Then we have to decide whether we really mean it - if we
do, policies need to fully deliver on the protection we are aiming for. We have
to set out to guarantee the achievement of our goals.
“The earth has now
heated up so much and there is so much CO2 in the air that the only policies
that can be effective must involve:
• emergency speed action (like happened when the economy was
mobilised in WW2)
• we have to get the whole economy to zero emissions (in 6
to 10 years)
• we have to put in place a truly massive program to take
all the excess CO2 out of the air really fast - but we have to do this in a way
that is compatible with maintaining food production and nature protection, so it
will take a long time (probably over 100 years)
• we have to seriously consider that careful use of solar
reflection methods to get fast cooling as soon as possible so that we can back
the world out of tipping points and stop runaway climate change and sea level
rise,” he said.
Philip said solar reflection methods should be not be used
if they did not deliver net environmental benefit, such as the net protection
for the world's vulnerable people and species.
“We have to recognise that climate change has now gone so
far that if we decide to not use solar reflection (to add to an emergency speed
transition to zero emissions and fast, massive CO2 drawdown) then people and
species across the world will suffer massive losses - deaths, misery and
extinctions, and civilisation could be threatened,” Philip said.
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