CLIMATE ACTION SHOW

February 17th 2025

Produced by Vivien Langford

C O L L I S I O N   C O U R S E 

from The Sustainable Living Festival 2025

Guest speaker:

David Spratt with Emily Rice from The Breakthrough Foundation

“The very act of trying to look ahead and to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope.” – writer Octavia Butler

 This is  the idea which guides David Spratt's unflinching look at the collsion course we are on towards an unliveably climate changed world.

This is an edited version of the talk he gave to the Sudstainable Lioving Festival on 11th February. The MC was Emily Rice from the Breakthrough Foundation. He desribes the tipping points and the unpredictability of the future unless we draw down current emissions.

If Saudi Aramco says we should "abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas", we need to know how to push back, keeping in mind at least seven of the generations of all species that we hope will follow us.

For the slides and full report 

: https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/collisioncourse

Many Climate Action Radio listeners will be impatient to take action and David Spratt looks at the political context within which we must act. The guiding idea here is:

 “Political reality must be grounded in physical reality or it’s completely useless.” – Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

We hear about  a risk report commissioned by the Albanese Government. It was presented in 2022 but will "never to be seen again" as the risks documented make a nonsense of current policies to subsidise and permit new coal and gas projects.

Checkout Slide 8 to see how the proposed development at Fisherman's Bend will look as sea level rise and tidal surge swamp it.

file:///C:/Users/61424/Downloads/2502%20Collision%20Course%20NSF%20events-1.pdf

“Australia’s largest urban renewal project … by 2050 will be home to approximately 80,000 residents and provide employment for up to 80,000 people with a plan for parks, schools, roads, transport and community facilities and services to ensure liveability as the precinct grows over the next 30 years … supported by a suite of evidence-based research reports, strategies and plans.” (fishermansbend.vic.gov.au)