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Young Australians can rejoice as government takes action on climate change

Red-letter day in fight against warming, SMH, Sarah Hanson Young, November 8, 2011  Today will be a great day for Australians who have waited years for their government to take our warming planet seriously. After years of talk and a few backward steps, the Senate will pass a suite of legislation that will put a price on pollution from July next year.

Australians — who in 2007 and 2010 voted for politicians to back widespread community support for taking action — will be able to finally say that most of their elected representatives listened and acted.

Their Parliament has taken action in response to hundreds of thousands of people, especially younger Australians, who sent letters, danced in flash mobs, signed petitions or attended rallies in cities and towns across the country urging that we heed the warnings of climate scientists.

As I told the Senate last week in my speech on the historic bills, it is an honour to be a senator at the time the federal parliament is finally taking this historic reformist step in the defence of our biosphere and all the creatures living within it…..
: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/blogs/gengreens/redletter-day-in-fight-against-warming-20111107-1n3hk.html#ixzz1dA6K6EZE

November 8, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News