W4’s resident greenies and sustainability wise old owls finished off the year very pleased to hear positive news from John about the momentum created out of the ‘Renewable Energy for Benalla’ community forum and the first meeting of the ‘Renewable Energy for Benalla’ working party. We will continue to monitor local developments and good news stories next year while retaining a focus on scientific evidence related to climate change through reading of well researched articles.
At our last class for the year we watched an excellent Catalyst program which asks whether we have entered a new geological era ‘the Anthropocene’ , with evidence of our existence visible millions of years later in the rocks of tomorrow. Concern about the impact of the election of climate denier Donald Trump arose and appears unclear – ‘Given Trump’s record of political flip flopping it remains an open question as to how far he will actually go to undo the diplomatic climate legacy of the Obama administration’ (Robyn Eckersley, Univ of Melb, ‘The Conversation’ Nov 11 2016).
We continue to hope for a scientifically informed non-partisan approach to addressing climate change and to reflect on what we are doing ourselves at a personal level, with Gabija recently describing trialling solar devices while camping as a stage in making a transition to a solar powered future.
At our last class for the year we watched an excellent Catalyst program which asks whether we have entered a new geological era ‘the Anthropocene’ , with evidence of our existence visible millions of years later in the rocks of tomorrow. Concern about the impact of the election of climate denier Donald Trump arose and appears unclear – ‘Given Trump’s record of political flip flopping it remains an open question as to how far he will actually go to undo the diplomatic climate legacy of the Obama administration’ (Robyn Eckersley, Univ of Melb, ‘The Conversation’ Nov 11 2016).
We continue to hope for a scientifically informed non-partisan approach to addressing climate change and to reflect on what we are doing ourselves at a personal level, with Gabija recently describing trialling solar devices while camping as a stage in making a transition to a solar powered future.
