In the early 1970s one of the most inspiring labour movement-based environmental campaigns was led by building workers in Australia. The story is recounted in Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann’s Green Bans, Red Union (1998) and Greg Mallory’s, Uncharted Waters (2005). The AWL published an account by Mallory in Workers’ Liberty magazine No.64 in 2000 in the aftermath of the Seattle demonstrations.
Never mind the underlying principle of doing the right thing, it’s clear that the latest likely converts to net-zero carbon emission targets are motivated solely by what it might mean for profits for their mega-businesses, or votes for their political parties.
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Now world can see through our hollow record on climate
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Now world can see through our hollow record on climate
December 15, 2020 12.00am
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With British calls not to endorse Mathias Cormann to the OECD ( UK Labour tells PM to blacklist Cormann s OECD bid , December 14), and with the snub to Scott Morrison over the weekend ( Every country must declare a climate emergency: UN chief , December 14), the world is starting to see through our hollow record on climate change. It is quite clear that we need to look in our backyard before looking to play on the world stage. And that is a backyard ravaged with out of control bushfires and extensive flooding on the east coast. Our politicians can live in the Canberra bubble for only so long. -