Sign the petition to the Australian Retirement Trust: Be a climate leader

Fossil power is dead

It’s a nobrainer and could, most likely be done with little or no effect to your bottom line

Super Funds do not do enough to use their financial power for the better future of our planet.

As a member of the Australian Retirement Trust I would urge the fund to invest in renewable energy sources and avoid polluting businesses.

Latest information indicates 1.5 degrees C by 2030 is too late and 2.0 degrees C before 2030 is likely with present and increasing CO2 emissions (currently over 420 ppm).
I understand that when the temperature reaches 30.6 degrees Celsius with 100% humidity, the human body internal temperature starts to rise uncontrollably. If it reaches about 45 degrees Celsius, death for humans and most other species, is almost certain. Indeed, humans can only survive at 35 degrees Celsius with 100% humidity for five to seven hours.
I appreciate that you may not want to accept responsibility for your part in supporting
companies carrying out increasingly serious damage to the atmosphere and the environment.
Have you noticed that the large planetary energy imbalance assures that global temperature is headed higher? More heatwaves, more extreme variability with intensive, destructive winds, precipitation and floods, and an increasingly difficult environment in which to live and work in the tropics. Watch the exodus of the uninsured and homeless with the withdrawal of the insurance companies.
Townsville had a near miss in 2019, when the Ross River dam peaked at 250% of capacity and the flood gates were fully open. If those flood gates had not opened, 100,000 people may have been washed out to sea in the dark, as there was a very high probability of the dam collapsing.
More recently, there was Cyclone Jasper which hovered over an area north of Cairns. There were no major dams in the area likely to collapse, so the precipitation caused disastrous flooding with unexpected rapidity. One survivor from the Lion’s Den (a pub about 50 miles or 80 kilometres south of Cooktown) said that the floodwater was around his ankles and, 15 minutes later, it was up to his neck. He and 15 others were rescued from the roof of the Lion’s Den by helicopter, one at a time, before the building was destroyed.
Sea sponge records going back around 300 years suggest that the Earth is already 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-06/sponge-skeleltons-show-earth-may-be-1-7c-warmer-already/103411646
One thing you can do now, for example – stop deforestation – a no-brainer. Easy, and comes at a very low cost.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_foley_the_climate_solutions_worth_funding_now
You can work out later, how many lives you will save by taking action now on pollution, for your children and grandchildren.

Net zero by 2050, are you joking?