From Greenpeace Australia Pacific
https://act.greenpeace.org/page/7812/petition/1
Devastating news about the Great Barrier Reef is becoming the new normal, but we can do something about it.
Click here to take action now!
https://act.greenpeace.org/page/7812/petition/1
A new report by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has confirmed that our Reef will ‘cease to exist’ by the end of this century if we keep burning fossil fuels. [1] We know the solution, and the report confirms it: the only way to save the Great Barrier Reef is to tackle climate change. So, what should we do when the Turnbull Government refuses to act? robert, let’s give them hell.
Ahead of the World Heritage Committee meeting next week, UNESCO confirmed that we must keep global warming to below 1.5C to ensure the Reef’s survival. To do that, we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Instead, the Turnbull Government is actively funding climate destruction. It hands over about $11 billion in enormous tax breaks each year to keep the mines afloat and the drills going. [2] Right now, they’re desperately trying to give $1 billion of public money to the Carmichael coal mine. Clearly, our Reef is not in safe hands.
So here’s the plan: let’s cut the flow of public money to the fossil fuel industry and wave goodbye to the big polluters. If we can stop the Government handing over billions of dollars of public money to prop up this dying industry, greener technologies will roar ahead. The $1 billion loan to Adani is the lynchpin of the Carmichael megamine. With the pressure of tens of thousands of Australians, we can stop the Carmichael megamine and signal the end of this kind of handout to the fossil fuel industry. That’s why we're going straight to the source, ol’ money bags himself, Malcolm Turnbull.
Tell Malcolm Turnbull now: stop funding Reef destruction!
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https://act.greenpeace.org/page/7812/petition/1
Let’s look at the facts:
1. UNESCO put the Australian Government on notice for its handling of the Reef back in 2015, and the Reef has been on its ‘watch list’ ever since.
2. The Government then put its ‘2050 Plan’ forward to protect the Reef, but it does nothing to address climate change.
3. Fast forward to now - the Reef has suffered two mass coral bleaching events back-to-back. About 30% died last year, and this year we’re expecting a death rate of 19%. This is unprecedented.
The Government’s own advisors have told the Government their plan won’t work because of climate change. [3] Just addressing local impacts, like agricultural runoff, is the very premise of the Government’s plan, but this is just tinkering around the edges of an enormous environmental catastrophe. Real action on climate change is needed, not billion dollar handouts to the very companies destroying the Reef.
For decades, Australian Governments of every stripe, at both the federal and state level, have propped up the fossil fuel industry in every way imaginable. Tax cuts, handouts, loans, free infrastructure, cheap water, you name it; they’ve done it. But the tide is turning. The Carmichael coal mine now hinges on a $1 billion public loan and the controversy is so loud that politicians and civil servants keep kicking the decision down the road. You’re part of the fight, robert, so thank you! Now, it’s time to take it up a notch.
Sign the petition to stop this dodgy deal, and let’s start building a future we can all be proud of.
State and federal politicians are all complicit, but the rot starts in Canberra. If we forced Malcolm Turnbull’s Government to call time on our tax money going to climate-wrecking fossil fuels, the states would follow. It’s an ambitious goal, but as the Great Barrier Reef slips away from us, as the heatwaves get hotter and the cyclones stronger, we will fight harder than ever before.
