Radio Program for CICD’s Alternative News on 3CR
Why peace activists must work with climate change protesters and refugee advocates to prevent future wars ?
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Welcome to this edition of CICD’s Alternative News on Melbourne’s Community Radio station 3CR.
My name’s Andrew and I have with me Bevan Ramsden, a NSW representative of IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. Today we will discuss why peace activists should work with climate change protesters and refugee advocates to prevent conflict and war.
Bevan: Friday 15th March,2019 should be a wakeup call to politicians and governments all around the world. On that day over one million school children from 90 countries left their books and classrooms to protest publicly for government action to arrest climate -change.
Andrew: The world-wide protests included 300,000 school children in Germany, 150,000 in one city, Montreal and in Australia, over 100,000. The Australian protesters called for a stop to the Adani coal mine, an end to coal-fired power stations and a 100% conversion to renewable energy by 2030.
Bevan: These school children have realised that climate change poses a serious threat to the quality of their future life. It can be expected that their protest numbers will continue to increase until effective action is taken by government’s around the world. Their actions should also be a wake-up call to us all; we all need to join in and make these protests so large that politicians are unable to move without being confronted by the demand for climate change action.
Andrew: It is inspiring to hear the views of these protesting students and why they decided to walk out of school and attend these protests. Here is what one student said. Her name is Isabella Harding and she is in year 11 and attends Brunswick Secondary School.
