Saturday, February 29, 2020

No Answers from Politicians

In a small Australian town real people are asking who pays the human costs when the coal fired power plants and coal mines are closed?  Nobody seems to have a practical answer.  
“I don’t think there’s been a great deal of thinking or attention to what [a climate transition] means for small towns like us. What I see is politicians, tourism people, saying each one of our jobs is going to be replaced by a new tourism job. But I don’t see that as practical at all. It fails to take into account that we own houses, businesses, we have settled families. What exactly is our transition plan for these people? Should we just leave our homes and businesses and move..."
Only governments can solve the climate crisis and they will only act if we take to the streets and demand not just technical solutions, but human solutions.

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