Three Seconds - 1st Prize Short Film Winner #Film4Climate

Three Seconds is a short motivational piece to get younger and older generations alike to stand up for trees and a clean future. This spoken word piece by artist Prince Ea was designed to put into perspective our existence on earth’s timeline and to excite viewers for the fight against the status quo that too often disregards Mother Nature. 

Short Film About Three Seconds: An epic presentation of where humanity stands today and how we must all work together to make it to the fourth second. Climate Change is real. 

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Fossil Fuel Workers Deserve Better: Video

Fossil Fuel Workers Deserve Better: Video from Climate Reality

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"Fossil fuels are not only dangerous for our planet but to those working in the industry itself. It’s beyond time for a #RenewableRevolution. (via The Years Project)"


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Gillard on climate action: “It was done. And … we can do it again in the future”: RenewEconomy

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Former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard has expressed optimism that Australia will eventually embrace strong climate policy while defending her government’s carbon price policy as one of the most effective measures introduced in Australia to cut emissions.

Speaking during a web forum organised by the Australia Institute, Gillard said that the evidence was clear that the carbon price introduced by her government successfully worked to cut Australia’s emissions without being a burden on the Australian economy.

Talk of Australia’s climate policy failures often focuses on Kevin Rudd’s CPRS, rejected by the Coalition after Tony Abbott emerged as their leader. Somehow, the Greens are blamed for this failure but it is often forgotten that the Greens worked with Labor to deliver the carbon price, along with ARENA and the CEFC.

Marking ten years since Gillard became prime minister, the former Labor leader was asked to reflect on the performance of the carbon price, which ultimately proved to be politically damaging, despite being effective policy.

“Australia’s emissions were going up; our carbon price came into effect, they went down. Then, it was repealed by the Abbott government and there they go, back up. So we would be in a different and better place on climate had that scheme endured,” Gillard said.

Read more in the original Renew Economy article 

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Does Australia's government take climate change seriously: Sky News UK

Video - Impact of climate change on Australian industries: CNBC

Sadly, at the federal government level in Australia, there is a lack of political will and action when it comes to climate change, Martin Rice, acting CEO at the Climate Council told CNBC. 

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Will Climate Break Through in Big Media's Elections Coverage?: Common Dreams (excerpt)

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"With fewer than 100 days remaining before Election Day, journalists at some of America's leading news organizations are working with their own newsrooms and others to make sure voters and the public at large understand what's at stake.

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Mark Hertsgaard

Looming climate catastrophe

On November 4, the United States will officially leave the Parisclimate accord. The accord, agreed upon five years ago by virtually every country on earth, commits governments to keeping global temperature rise "well below" 2 degrees Celsius—a sensible ambition considering the record heat waves, hurricanes, and other forms of climate chaos now erupting around the world after "only" 1 degree of warming. Whether the US departure from the accord is sustained (in the event that Republican president Donald Trump is re-elected) or reversed (if Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins) is one of many reasons why the 2020 US election is, as much as anything, a climate-change election.With fewer than 100 days remaining before Election Day,

Looming climate catastrophe

journalists at some of America's leading news organizations are working with their own newsrooms and others to make sure voters and the public at large understand what's at stake.

"It's not our responsibility to tell people who to vote for, but it is important to lay out the consequences of what those decisions are, and that we can do very, very clearly," Al Ortiz of CBS News said at a July 30 "Talking Shop" webinar of Covering Climate Now.  "

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Saturday, August 08, 2020

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Covering Climate Now

Related: There is an answer to post Covid-19 economic chaos. 

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Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand: New England Journal of Medicine

New Covid-19 Cases in New Zealand

and Implementation of

Epidemic-Response and Support Measures.

Soon after initial descriptions of an outbreak in Wuhan, China, were shared, reports in late January 2020 (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext. opens in new tab) confirmed that Covid-19 was almost certain to become a serious pandemic. 

Despite New Zealand’s geographic isolation, we knew that introduction of SARS-CoV-2 was imminent because of the large numbers of tourists and students who arrive in the country each summer, predominantly from Europe and mainland China. Our disease models indicated that we could expect the pandemic to spread widely, overwhelm our health care system, and disproportionately burden indigenous Maori and Pacific peoples. New Zealand began implementing its pandemic influenza plan in earnest in February, which included preparing hospitals for an influx of patients. We also began instituting border-control policies to delay the pandemic’s arrival.

New Zealand’s first Covid-19 case was diagnosed on February 26 (see Figure 1). That same week, the WHO–China Joint Mission’s report on Covid-19 (www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf. opens in new tab) showed that SARS-CoV-2 was behaving more like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) than like influenza, which suggested that containment was possible.

Read the complete NEJM article 

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Seizing the moment: how Australia can build a green economy from the Covid-19 wreckage : The Guardian (excerpt)

There is an answer to post Covid-19 economic chaos.

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