Can we allow business-as-usual when it threatens the planet? Can coal ever be "clean"? How can we build an alternative, sustainable future?
Socialist Alliance Qld
At the same time as the world balances on the precipice of climate change, Qld is rapidly increasing it's addiction to coal. Qld coal already contributes 30% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions - and the Bligh government is celebrating the forecast tripling of Qld coal production by 2030. Now a new coal port is proposed for pristine Shoalwater Bay in Central Qld.
Wed Aug 6, 6? (dinner from 6pm) Brisbane Activist Centre, 74B Wickham St, Fortitude Valley.
At the same time as the world balances on the precipice of climate change, Qld is rapidly increasing it's addiction to coal. Qld coal already contributes 30% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions - and the Bligh government is celebrating the forecast tripling of Qld coal production by 2030. Now a new coal port is proposed for pristine Shoalwater Bay in Central Qld.
Can we allow business-as-usual when it threatens the planet? Can coal ever be "clean"? How can we build an alternative, sustainable future?
Speakers include?
* Dr John Mackenzie, Friends of the Earth climate collective * Dom Hale, Socialist Alliance * + speaker from the recent Climate Camp.
Organised by Socialist Alliance. Ph 3831 2644; 0410 629 088
Brisbane Activist Centre, 74b Wickham St, Fortitude Valley
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