Climate movement 2011: Failure, Power and Renewal

March 2nd, 2011 by Anna

A speech to Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival on a panel with Dr David Suzuki, Professor Ian Lowe, Senator Christine Milne, Clive Hamilton & Philip Sutton in February 2011.

The majority of the environment movement in Australia is failing—at least in so far as you define failing as not winning the things we need to win to preserve clean air, clean water, clean soil and a stable climate for my generation and those to come.

We are failing because as a whole the Australian environment movement does not understand power, has not built power, and has failed to effectively exercise the power we have built.

[Continue reading Anna's speech here | 160kb PDF.]


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