Understorey: Choosing Climate Damage
Last week, Understorey met with sustainability professor Peter Newman to hear his alternative energy vision for Western Australia – a world-leading, thriving, decarbonised, renewable energy economy. Since then, newly appointed State Labor Minister for Environment and Climate Action and Commerce, Amber-Jade Sanderson, has opted for the old energy road. Anderson has given the go-ahead for Australia’s most carbon polluting project, Woodside’s Scarborough Gas in the North West. Last weekend in Cornwall the seven largest economies, the G7, called for a “green revolution”. Understorey’s Elizabeth PO’ speaks with Conservation Council’s Piers Verstegen about what the state government’s refusal to act to address the climate emergency this decade means for our longer term future, the integrity of Burrup rock art, and post-Juukan consultation with Aboriginal people.
Montage: A Glamorgan, using images by Marius Fenger, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Burrup), G7 (Cornwall family photo), Legislative Assembly (Minister), Conservation Council (Gas)
