October 20 ... 'Member's Choice Session' resources...

From John - 
NS 16 Sept – Prairie Power  - Link
 
NS 7 Oct 23 – Can China Turn the world green?   -  Link
 
The Conversation 16 Oct 23 – A fair energy transition  -  Link

​The Conversation 17 Oct 23 – Hammer-head shark aggregations off Perth  -  Link
 
The Conversation 17 Oct 23 – Cloud brightening to cool the sea (video below)  -  Link

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From Bev - 'I follow Peter Sainsbury who writes on the environment for John Menadue's 'Pearls and Irritations' website. In an article 'Environment: Andrew Forrest’s climate message to Biden, Modi and Xi'. (September 10, 2023) suggests...

​"If you’ve got 24 minutes, I strongly recommend watching Andrew Forrest’s speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Perth last week. Until the last seven minutes, it’s not so much what he says about global warming as the fact that Forrest is saying it, and he is clearly addressing himself to the leaders of the world’s most powerful governments, with whom he suggests he has good relations."...

"...Forrest opens by discussing the near-impossibility of avoiding warming of at least 1.5oC and that it will happen this decade. He then describes the human consequences, principally the deaths that are already occurring and the millions more that will inevitably occur soon as a result of lethal humidity (‘the next global pandemic’). He is at pains to emphasise that he is a scientist and that what he is saying is backed up by the best science.

While Forrest is extremely concerned about the future, he doesn’t think it is too late to avert a complete disaster. He is clear about the cause of the problem and what needs to happen:

• Global warming is caused by ‘business’: ‘It’s business that will kill your children. It’s business that is responsible for lethal humidity. But it’s policies which guide business. You must hold us to account’;
• Governments must:
  • Match policy settings to risk immediately
  • Develop policies to guide ‘business’
  • Take down all barriers to green energy manufacturing
  • Abolish fossil fuel subsidies.

In particular, the governments of China, the USA and India, who all fully understand the magnitude of the risks posed by global warming, must put aside their geopolitical struggles and establish a ‘Green Armistice’ to ‘put a handbrake not on our survival but on that which is killing us, global warming’. Forrest explicitly identifies Biden, Modi and Xi as the people responsible for getting the ball rolling and suggests that they ‘announce the intention to render illegal any action which would prevent mitigation of global warming’.

Forrest has a very clear message for the governments of the world: ‘You must hold us to account. Business guided by government will either save or destroy this planet. Hold us to account. The power of you. Make us change. That’s all I’m asking you to do. Make us change.’

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