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Australian climate activism goes local, and rural

Climate activism research shows new move to localism ABC Rural News 23 May 14, The protesters at various mine sites around northern NSW, and the way local farmers are actually quite supportive of the protests, are all part of a relatively new phenomenon in terms of climate activism.

Joint research by the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney has found a new focus for climate change activism, localism.

Assoc Professor James Goodman University of Technology Sydney is one of the authors and researchers involved in a new book that looks at the issue.

“We have seen more and more evidence of farmers concerned about their rights when faced with mining companies demands to drill, about their right to farm and the impact of mining on water quality and aquifers. “We are seeing two types of protesters; those worried about local impacts on their environment, health and their community and others worried about the impacts on the wider environment and the longer term, the next 20 or 30 years.

“At some of those Maules Creek and Bentley protests, we are seeing the two groups come together.

“There has been a shift in focus away from the big picture to the local………..http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-22/nrn-climate-activism-research-22-05-14/5471028

May 23, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming