Today's episode is all about the proposed gas lead recovery for Australia and what our young people are doing to try and stop it.
Firstly we will hear from Warwick Smith, an ecologist and economist, who lays out exactly why the gas lead recovery is a nonsense.
Then we have two young people who have been involved in the school strike for climate movement. They have created an event for Castlemaine that is in coordination with actions across Australia to protest the gas lead recovery. I talk to them about activism, and how the school strike movement has changed their lives.
Then we throw back to an interview I did last season with Cam Walker. He works at environmental organisation Friends of the Earth and I thought what he said in that interview back in May is pertinent right now, on this issue.
Saltgrass is produced in Castlemaine, on Djaara country, home of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Links and resources:
Student strike for Climate
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC)
References made in Student Striker interview:
The One Straw Revolution
Effective altruism
Cohen spoke about being involved in the local Z-net effort which Saltgrass covered in Season 2 Episode 21.
If you want to get active and contact your Australian government representatives here are some starting points:
Current Australian Ministry List
If you want to focus on the Labour party
This is the Labour members of parliament
Cam Walker works at Friends of the Earth (FoE)
This link is if you wand to listen to the whole episode with Cam.
S4E10 Mildura Part 2: the Eco Village
REPEAT: Adani Coal Mine
S4E09 COP26 with Cam Walker
S4E08 Mildura Part 1: The Mallee, the Murray and the Mayor
S4 E07 Charging the Regions with Rob Law
S4 E06 Healthy Soil with Dr Jess Drake
S4 E05 Cycling Together
S4 E04 The Bioenergy Debate - Part 2 - Questions and Answers
S4 E03 The Bioenergy Debate - Part 1 - The Presentation
S4 E02 Human Health and Climate
S4 E01 What is Saltgrass?
S3 E23 School Strikes: Fund our Future
S3 E22 Full Circle with Scott Ludlam and Alex Kelly
S3 E21 Hear Here
S3 E20 GrAiNZ
S3 E19 Redbeard Bakery with John Reid
S3 E18 Cape Grim with Jessie Boylan
S3 E17 Repair
S3 E16 Degrowth
S3 E15 Second Hand Electric Vehicles with Anton Vikstrom
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