If Australians want to eat, farmers need a real climate plan

I live and work on McMartin’s Strawberry Farm on the idyllic Sunshine Coast, which my grandparents bought back in 1945. 

Kerrie and Graham McMartin fear mounting climate
change impacts will slowly destroy their property.

In our little slice of paradise, we also grow lychees, custard apples and sugar cane. You might even have eaten some of our produce.

We are a long way off from Monaco, where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report saying that global sea levels are expected to rise by up to 110cm by 2100, but this news has hit very close to home for us, and coastal communities around the world.

My dad turned one the same year that my grandparents purchased this place. He’s now 75, and suffice to say, he’s seen a lot of changes in his lifetime.

Read the story from The Courier Mail by Kerrie McMartin - “If Australians want to eat, farmers need a real climate plan.”