Yes, we have a 'Climate Emergency'

Yes, we have a “Climate Emergency”.

Former Chair of the Australian Coal Association and former CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Ian Dunlop, said:

“We are out of time for gradualist policy. We need courage rather than procrastination from our aspiring leaders. Emergency action is a call increasingly being taken up by leading scientists and responsible leaders around the world as extreme events escalate.”

A petition supported by a host of well-credential Australians is presently circulating and it says:

“We call on the Australian Parliament to declare a climate emergency and initiate a society-wide mobilisation.”

Visit Climate Emergency Declaration and sign the petition.

Skeptics delighted to hear about wind farm procrastination

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limate change skeptics would be delighted to hear about the further procrastination about wind power as a renewable energy.

Senator John Madigan - he is "sitting on
 the fence" about wind farms.

Endless research has illustrated the no ill health effects are connected to wind turbines, but still we argue about their safety and impact on human health, while a power generating system we know has massive impacts continues without serious challenge.

Coal-fired power stations, we know, are changing the world’s climate system, risking the lives of billions, and again we know, many people die every year to coal related illnesses and yet it is an issue governments rarely confront.

No doubt to the delight of the skeptics further procrastination is proposed as Senator John Madigan steps up to defend his idea that there should be further scrutiny of wind turbines.

Read the ABC story - “Wind farm commissioner: Senator John Madigan defends proposal for fresh scrutiny on wind turbines; professor says'no evidence' of health risks”.

Failure to respond to climate change is effectively a crime against humanity

Events which people were able to avoid, prevent or save their fellows from and about which they did nothing or which they vindictively prosecuted, have historically, and traditionally, been seen as a crime against humanity.

Yet to be born generations of people struggling with the legacy of inaction and procrastination on climate change by today’s world leaders will be wondering why those of us who “knew” what was unfolding, failed to act.

The June 2014 edition of the Health and Human Rights journal has said in its editorial: ”The Great Procrastination”:

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in response to global outrage at the human suffering and atrocities of the Second World War. The world united to ensure that humankind would never again experience such loss of dignity and freedom.

”Unabated climate change poses exactly this threat; it is imperative that we use our human rights entitlements to guide the process and actions to mitigate such disaster.”

The failure of many governments of developed countries to act to positively address climate change, among them Australia and Canada, represents a crime against humanity.