Sign the open letter: Let's renew with climate solutions

The safety of our food, soil, air, water and biodiversity continue to become increasingly compromised. Our children and our Earth deserve hope for a bright future. There are solutions that are being ignored.

I believe our leaders must power our communities and transport with clean energy, switch from coal and gas to clean energy, and protect and restore nature to be the lungs that clean the air for wildlife and people.

Agrivoltaic systems can produce solar power with panels on stilts allowing for grazing, cropping and orchard practices to be sheltered under the shading and insulating properties of the solar panels.

Regenerative farming practices, agroforestry, syntropic farming and natural sequence farming are productive systems that allow for enterprise diversity in a changing climate and create complex systems that produce more employment, conserve more moisture in the soil and prevent runoff and soil erosion.

These are systems that sequester carbon in the soil, while producing pasture, food crops, timber and fibre with decreased reliance on irrigation and synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

We have been told that this is not possible but more examples are proving this industrial agricultural philosophy as destructive and unnecessary.

Charles Massy, Charlie Arnott, Bruce Pascoe, Peter and Stewart Andrews, Colin Seiss, Damon Gameau, Tim Flannery, Terry McCosker, Martin Royds, Walter Jehne, David Holmgren, Christine Jones and many others are showing us the way. Our governments could be dissipating this information and creating training opportunities for technicians to help our farmers set up their farms in preparation for drought, flood and fire.

There are economic benefits to making this knowledge commonplace. If we could set up a summit with these great Australians to direct our politicians on how to transform our nation’s agriculture, we would be creating a continent that would be doing its part in quickly sequestering carbon, hydrating our landscape while producing food without chemicals in biodiverse settings.

It’s time to stand up as a nation and regenerate our soil, water, air, food and biodiversity.

It’s now or never!

The Business Council of Australia and other major industry groups are pressing for bold, decisive federal government climate initiatives. Eight out of 10 of Australia’s leading economists are reported this week to back net zero by 2050. The majority of Australian people want yet more – let’s aim for net zero as close as possible to 2030. On the international stage, it’s the federal government’s inaction to mandate firm and ambitious short and medium term commitments that will result in tax penalties and access blockades on our goods and services in response to Australia’s woeful contribution to tackle the greatest challenge in our planet’s human history.
Please, on behalf of all Australians, don’t pander to those few rooted in the past. Step up on our behalf at Glasgow, and put Australia on the right side of the climate ledger by leading us towards a clean, green, carbon neutral future.

We’re past the point that this should even be a question, we have to take climate action now!

Time and time again, you have failed to listen to the voices of and act in the interests of us young people, as well as First Nations Peoples and people living in regional and rural communities. Come on, Morrison government!! This is your last chance. The youth are rising and we are becoming stronger by the day.

Politicians – please represent the people who elect you to govern us

Come on Australia – I want a clean and green future for my kids!

The time to stop climate damage was 30 years ago, however all we have is now.

Let’s embrace new green technology and be a leader, not a laggard and develop new industry that we can export to the world.