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370,000 Australians Sign E-Petition in Two Days After Government Blocks Climate Emergency Declaration

October 24, 2019
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In the two days after Australia’s climate-denying Liberal coalition government blocked a motion to declare a climate emergency in the country, 370,000 citizens signed a record-breaking e-petition urging their government to ring the fire alarm on climate.

The petition asked the parliament to “immediately act and declare a climate emergency in Australia” and to “introduce legislation that will with immediacy and haste reduce the causes of anthropogenic climate change,” the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

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The petitioners cited the universal scientific consensus on the urgent reality of anthropogenic climate change, and their own knowledge that “we must act now to minimize both human and environmental destruction”.

The Herald notes that “as an official parliamentary e-petition, the signatures theoretically carry more weight than other online petitions by organizations such as Change.org that do not require signatories to confirm they are residents or citizens of Australia.”

Asked how Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor might react to the e-petition, a spokesperson forwarded the speech Taylor had given in Parliament the day before, in which he had derided the climate emergency motion, put forward by the Green Party and supported by Labor, as an “absolutely empty gesture.” Taylor singled out Labor for “making a huge song and dance about declaring a climate emergency” while “refus[ing] to commit to a single policy in this area from the last election.” 

Labor climate and energy spokesperson Mark Butler countered that it was “no surprise” the Coalition had blocked debate on the motion, “considering emissions have been rising ever since 2014 and given the government’s own data projects emissions continuing to rise all the way to 2030.”

He added that “parliaments in the UK, Canada, and several other nations have already passed resolutions recognizing climate change as an emergency, and it is time that our Parliament did the same.”



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  1. Burl Hay says:
    3 years ago

    Did you hear about those people who stopped the Yale-Harvard football game the other day? I raelly can’t believe they would do that! I’d be pissed if I had been at that game! What do you think about it?

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    • Mitchell Beer says:
      3 years ago

      We’ve got a story on that in today’s edition. I trust you would also be pissed if your favourite football team could no longer take to the field without everyone collapsing due to heat stroke…or having the game flooded out due to storms or sea level rise? Full respect to people for whom the game was very important. We quoted a couple of them in the story. But if *everything* is affected by the climate crisis — and everything is — everyone needs to take every opportunity to amp up demands for fossil divestment and rapid decarbonization.

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