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5 August 2014
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Way ahead FOUR local climate reality ambassador leaders attended training on how to give presentations highlighting the urgency to act to combat climate change. The training was hosted by former US vicepresident Al Gore on a visit to Australia last month. Reade Smith, left, Greg Hunt, Sarah Beebe and Sharon Kellett say urgent action is needed to tackle the effects of climate change. Picture: Yanni
Climate of change Neil Walker neil@mpnews.com.au FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd called it “the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time� but failed to meet the challenge, avoiding the reality of dealing with climate change for political reasons. However, tackling climate change is something five local climate reality ambassadors are determined to achieve,
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both by their day-to-day actions in living a sustainable lifestyle and by spreading the word that time is fast running out for governments to act to make a real difference before it is too late. Former Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor Reade Smith, South East Councils Climate Change Alliance excutive officer Greg Hunt (not the federal environment minister and Flinders MP), wildlife conservationist Sarah Beebe and associate nurse manager
Sharon Kellett have signed up to join a green army with a difference: the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. The four attended an extensive training session last month presented by former US vice-president Al Gore in Melbourne.Mr Gore narrated the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth which brought the dangers the world faces from climate change to widespread attention. He has dedicated his post-political life to lobbying govern-
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ments around the world to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change. The four climate reality ambassadors are available to give presentations on how a sustainable future can still be attained by making a global shift from dirty fossil fuels to clean, renewable energies like solar and wind. Ms Kellett, a 51-year-old mother of three, said she took governments’ inaction on climate change “personally.� “As a mother I make no apology in
taking this very personally,� she said. “If it is the business of future generations, then it is my business too.� “The training we received with the Climate Reality Project was anything but doomsday. It informed us regarding the many ways that we can address climate change, both as global humanity and as Australians.� Visit www.climaterealityproject. org to book a presentation by a local climate reality ambassador.
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