Maybe not everyone in Australia will be thinking climate change when they vote tomorrow, Saturday 24 November but a surprising number will be. For the first time since the damming of the Franklin River, the environment is a factor in an election here. With each election it becomes a bigger factor and one day (tomorrow?) it will play a crucial role.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated his determination to make Britain a world leader in the new "technological revolution" required to beat global warming. Australia, once the world leader in solar technologies (in the 1950s), better equipped than any other nation to develop and use solar, is bypassed (cold sunless Sweden does much more!).
Tomorrow is our chance to wake up, lets see what happens! It will be, perhaps, one more step. [more]Labels: Mega Planning, Sustainability |