Climate Change: “We just need the Government to get out of the way”

Australian feminist social commentator, author and lecturer Jane Caro, is campaigning for bold action on tackling climate change. Sitting down with Climate Expert Scott Hamilton and Ticker News Presenter Holly Stearnes, Caro said it’s time that we invest in renewable energy technologies of the future.

“It’s positively biblical, yet it’s business as usual as far as the old blokes who run the country are concerned”

Jane Caro

Caro, who is a Walkley Award winning author (books including: Just a Girl, Just a Queen, Just Flesh & Blood, Plain Speaking Jane, Stupid Country, F Word, Accidental Feminists) says that it is not about being in the ‘coal business’, it is about being in the ‘energy business’ and the massive opportunities for jobs and growth in renewable energy. 

‘It is no wonder that women are rethinking having babies’

Holly Stearnes asked Caro about her recent comments that ‘it is no wonder that women are rethinking having babies’. Jane shares her experience that rarely does she not have a young woman coming to asking her ‘should she do it. Is it responsible to bring a child in into a rapidly deteriorating climate?’

Forget the slogans like ‘technology not taxes’.

The federal government is still spending billions of our taxpayer dollars on fossil fuels.

‘Forget the slogans, that is the first thing we need to jettison,’ said Caro.

The federal government recently announced it will invest $600 million in a new fossil gas plant in. NSW which highly respected head of the Energy Security Board, Kerry Schott, says ‘doesn’t stack up’.

Scott Hamilton commented that it is an example of the priorities of the federal government when they spend $600 million on a fossil gas plant and nothing for a dedicated quarantine facility which is desperately needed.