Peter Burdon's thoughts refresh our hope

Peter Burdon - words of hope.

The late author Louis “Studs” Terkel always said that it is hope that dies last.

Hope had taken something of battering over recent years, but now the thoughts and writing of University of Law lecturer, Peter Burdon, has refreshed that resource.

Writing in the ABC’s environment section, in a story headed: "Climate change: the situation is hopeless ….. let’s take the next step”, Burdon said climate change brings a sadness beyond telling but after grieving we must summon the will to act.

“You have to have a grassroots movement to do the moving,” he wrote.

McKibben wonders about 'The Great Carbon Bubble'

Bill McKibben has long been at the front of the few who have tried to alert the world to the difficulties climate change will bring.

Bill McKibben

Today he writes in The Nation of Change asking why the cult that is denialism seems so remarkably resistant to change; change the world so urgently needs.

He is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009.

Bill’s piece “The Great Carbon Bubble” is important reading.