EPISODE · Aug 17, 2022 · 14 MIN
Climate activist: 'I thought the adults knew what they were doing' - Jean Hinchliffe
from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean
Eighteen-year-old Jean Hinchliffe and lead singer with "Midnight Oil" and former politician, Peter Garrett, were co-guests at the 2022 Gandhi Oration organized by the University of New South Wales. And U.S. writer, Mary Annaïse Heglar shows how white supremacy is the throughline between the gun crisis and the climate crisis. Other climate links are: "Irreversible declines in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia by 2060"; "Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law"; "European forest fires further increasing the world’s climate footprint"; "Drought, bushfires and beetles: The climate-related trifecta threatening Australia's iconic snow gums"; "BOM declares La Niña alert, signalling strong chance of another sodden summer"; "Weeks of heat above 100F will be the norm in much of US by 2053, study finds"; "Hawaii just received its last shipment of coal ever"; "Wildlife recovery spending after Australia’s last megafires was one-thirteenth the $2.7 billion needed"; "The Paris Climate Agreement: What You Need to Know"; "Auckland mayoral candidate Efeso Collins proposes mayors' coalition on climate"; "The database of fossil fuel divestment commitments made by institutions worldwide". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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Eighteen-year-old Jean Hinchliffe and lead singer with "Midnight Oil" and former politician, Peter Garrett, were co-guests at the 2022 Gandhi Oration organized by the University of New South Wales. And U.S. writer, Mary Annaïse Heglar shows how white supremacy is the throughline between the gun crisis and the climate crisis. Other climate links are: "Irreversible declines in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia by 2060"; "Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law"; "European forest fires further increasing the world’s climate footprint"; "Drought, bushfires and beetles: The climate-related trifecta threatening Australia's iconic snow gums"; "BOM declares La Niña alert, signalling strong chance of another sodden summer"; "Weeks of heat above 100F will be the norm in much of US by 2053, study finds"; "Hawaii just received its last shipment of coal ever"; "Wildlife recovery spending after Australia’s last megafires was one-thirteenth the $2.7 billion needed"; "The Paris Climate Agreement: What You Need to Know"; "Auckland mayoral candidate Efeso Collins proposes mayors' coalition on climate"; "The database of fossil fuel divestment commitments made by institutions worldwide". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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