Senator Kerry Nettle and The Greens candidate for Macquarie, Carmel McCallum, inspect a rail line in the Macqaurie electorate. It's vital to climate change, our safety and our energy security that we get more freight off our roads and onto rail.It is time to acknowledge that we all share a responsibility to vote for the party that has the plans and the commitment to seriously tackle climate change on Election Day Saturday 24 November and that party is the Greens.
The electorate are making it very clear to me that they are aware and concerned that John Howard is not acting decisively on climate change.
Last week Greens Senator Kerry Nettle visited the Macquarie electorate and spoke about the urgency of action on climate change.
Senator Nettle said that if Kevin Rudd and John Howard are serious about tackling climate change, they must set targets and plan to achieve them now - not in 40 years' time when it will be all too late.
The Greens are calling for emissions reductions of 30% below 1990 levels by 2020, and at least 80% by 2050. Any less than that is not enough.
In the electorate of Macquarie, it means improving our rail and bus connections between the city, regional towns and suburbs so that people aren’t forced to drive and freight can move off our roads onto rail.
It means supporting agriculture to adapt to a drying climate.Our Sun Fund will transfer the $300 million that the Federal Government currently spends on subsidies for fossil fuels across to renewable energy. This investment in research, development, commercialisation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies will put Australia back at the forefront of innovation.
The impacts of not addressing climate change include extinction of over one-third of the world’s species, heat waves, frequent destructive storms, melting glaciers and rising seas. The climate change buck cannot be passed on; it rests with the vote of every Macquarie voter at the ballot box this federal election.
Those that acknowledge they have a responsibility towards future generations in Macquarie will be voting Green.
