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Time For The Major Parties To Get Serious On Climate Change

As an Independent candidate I have campaigned on a Vote Climate Vote Solar ticket. Climate change is far worse than either the media or the politicians are telling us and dwarfs all other political issues.

By Peter Gardner - 3rd September 2013 - Back to News

I have campaigned against future fossil fuel developments such as Coal Seam Gas as they will only make the warming worse. Changing the Latrobe Valley from fossil fuel based electricity generation to renewables and manufacturing must be done as quickly and as seamlessly as possible. A "Snowy Mountains" type scheme will be needed to achieve this. Measures have been advocated to finance this change. Such a scheme will achieve full employment.

I have advocated a number of farm based measures including pyrolysis generators to produce electricity and bio-char from waste, interest free loans for solar hot water on dairies (manufactured in the Valley?), support for a ‘Green Corps’ with members working on climate change projects and for improvements to be made in the Carbon Farming Initiative.

Climate change is making extreme weather events both more frequent and more severe making droughts, heat waves, storms and related bushfires worse. Gippslanders are, and have been, experiencing these changes. A huge effort is required to minimise the warming as much as possible, to adapt to what we can, and to prepare for the worst.

If elected I would concern myself primarily with climate change and secondly vote in the best interests of Gippsland. In the small number of contentious issues not concerned with these matters I would vote with the status quo or abstain. Vote climate, vote solar; your preferences will send a message to the major parties that climate change should be treated seriously.

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