Second Sunday of the Month 8 December - Oatley Meeting of Citizens Climate Lobby

All welcome to Southern Sydney group of Citizens' Climate Lobby which meets at Oatley RSL on the second Sunday of the month.

At 2:30 pm on Sunday 8 December the meeting starts upstairs in the Board Room.  Check notice in foyer in case of room change.

We organise guest speakers with Q&A when possible.

At 1:15 pm all are also invited to pre-meeting refreshments downstairs (good food).  Look for Citizens' Climate Lobby T-shirts.  At 2:20 we go upstairs to the meeting.

Our general aim encourage people to think about a just transition from fossil fuels; to get political will to deal with climate disruption, which is already with us; and to mitigate the threat to human survival by looming climate catastrophe.

Generally we support each other in the creation of ideas to promote alternative energy sources to accelerate the urgent need to reduce climate disruption by

- raising popular awareness of the need to act quickly on climate, in particular to get a just transition of employment in a carbon free economy

- helping each other with writing letters to newspapers and to community leaders

- meeting community leaders including captains of industry and politicians at all levels of government, following well-thought-out strategies for the meetings

- proposing a brilliant method of pricing fossil fuels

- encouraging declarations of climate emergency from all levels of government

- inviting experts to address us or talk with us

- outreach, including handing out Meet Your MP forms at community fairs

- educating each other on the science and politics accelerating the just transition to a fossil-free economy, and the urgent need for the acceleration.

- showing amusing videos

Our meetings are interesting and enjoyable, even though the underlying motive is serious and the involvement of people at the "grass-roots" level has never been more important.

We need more hands on deck because the task is enormous. Let's avoid the global hot house! 1.5 degrees will be very difficult, 2 degrees will be a disaster, present Paris commitments or 3 degrees is a catastrophe, business as usual could give us 12 degrees of warming if there is a break-up of the subtropical cloud belt that currently reflects back into space about 30 per cent of the sun’s light.

No pressure. Just come for a short film if you don't feel in a political mood.

See you there!

George Carrard

A/Convenor, Southern Suburbs Chapter Citizens’ Climate Lobby Australia

text 0467004892

All welcome to join Citizens' Climate Lobby: go to the website ccl.org.au and press Join.   You won't be bombarded with emails.   Engagement can be at any level.   You can follow us on Facebook facebook.com/citizensclimatelobbyaustralia/ or meetup.com/Climate-Solutions-NSW/.