No this is not the end of the blog, don’t worry, it has only moved. The new address for this blog is here. But that is only a small part of the new blog. it now has many more sections, and has many more topics. So I will be able to update it more often.
I hope you like it.
Jarrah
This is the next email I have sent to parliament house, this time to the leader of the opposition, in an attempt to stop him jeopardising any climate change policy. this email is a bid to his deep Christian values, hopefully it hits well enough to work.
To Mr Tony Abbott
This email I am writing to you is a bid for you to end all attempts so slow or stop action on climate change in the Australian parliament.
Your background before being a politician is that of a christian having spent time in a seminary, and living the life of a christian, therefore you should befamiliar with the term stewardship, and know that this term means to take care of the resources around us, in a broader sence it is to look after all of creation.
So may I ask why if you feel that you are a devout christian do you still defy the bible and teachings of jesus, in theTo Mr Tony Abbott
This email I am writing to you is a bid for you to end all attempts so slow or stop action on climate change in the Australian parliament.
Your background before being a politician is that of a christian having spent time in a seminary, and living the life of a christian, therefore you should befamiliar with the term stewardship, and know that this term means to take care of the resources around us, in a broader sence it is to look after all of creation.
So may I ask why if you feel that you are a devout christian do you still defy the bible and teachings of jesus, in the form of attacking climate change.
Is it the science that you don’t agree with. From what you have previously said this seems to be the main problem that you have with climate change. If this is true, could you please repily with one real scientific issue about climate change. If you look properly it should be quite hard to find one.
Or is it the fact that you just don’t believe we can have such an effect on the planet, if this is the problem then I feel that it is quite weak to let a oppinion based on nothing but lies allow our country to not act. If the science will not persuade you to act then will the pope be able to? Even he has come out and said that climate change is real, because of him the vatican now has solar panels on it.
What I am asking you to do it to simply follow the teachings of both the pope and jesus. As the pope himself has said, “If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation”. So please if for nothing else but to be a devout christian, allow the parliament to act on climate change, “protect creation” and be the steward the god has asked of you.
Thank you for reading this email
jarrah gosbell15-year-old student
As usual I will be updating this post with any replies I get, but recently I have received very little, lets see if the coalition is better at reading and repiling to emails than the labor party!
This is a new way I have thought of to attempt to get the politicians of australia, and it is defiantly a new way of thinking for me. Hope it work’s as well as intended.
Dear Ms Gillard,
I have an addiction, I have an addiction that has not been fought, nor helped. My addiction, unlike drugs, is not advertised about, it is in essence the elephant in the room, we know about it, but nothing is done to stop it. My addiction is one to coal and oil, and with out your help i cannot stop. For there are no rehabilitation centers that will work with my addiction, nor is there information with which to use in an attempt to stop.
My addiction cannot be helped without a social change, nationally, and even globally, a social rehabilitationcenter. I know that I cannot go on like this, and there are many others who feel the same, for this is not an isolated incident, most of the world is addicted to the same oil and coal that I am.
Yes, not all will agree with me, but never will there be a time when everyone agrees. It is now the time to start australia’s rehabilitation center, it is the time to create the social change we need, for the reason of common survival. For I cannot live with this addiction for the rest of my life, nor will I live with the knowledge that my addiction caused the destruction that it has, and will cause.
To put all of this simply my question to you is, will you help me, will you fight with me to relieve me of this addiction.
If you decide to help, there are many ways you can do so, you are the single person who can listen and create this social rehabilitation center that we so dearly need.
Soon the UN climate summit will start, here is where your opportunity to help to create the global rehabilitation center appears.
But please remember when you are reading this, and when you are at this summit, just who you are fighting for, will it be the addicts or the dealers, and remember that you are not only fighting for what happens now, but also for the future.
Will our children be addicts to?
When you’re in mexico its up to you!
Thank you for reading this email, I can only hope it has made a difference.
Jarrah Gosbell
15 year old student
And as usual, i will be posting any repilys that i recieve.
Sorry for the long time between posts, but a few things have come up in the past few weeks and I have not been able to post, and then it was heard to get back in the mood to write again. But here it is, the next email, as usual, it has been sent to anyone who might possibly have some say in the issue of climate change in the parliament. Hopefully I can keep it up and will have anther one next week.
To Miss Gillard
Within three days of me writing this email, the world will see the biggest day of action on climate change, and possibly the biggest day of action on anything in history. This movement has officially started, with the president of the Maldives putting solar panels on his presidential quarters, and will easily outweigh the Vietnam moratorium with the numbers of people involved.
The Australian government has been given the opportunity to become involved in this massive event, when me, and many others, emailing, writing letters and calling your government to ask you to put solar panels on the roof of the lodge. They where ignored, as many attempts to get climate change back on the political agenda have.
It has been said that, with the greens, a comity will be formed that will review the science and work out a strategy of action, and that next year a cut down carbon tax or ETS as it was formerly known, will be produced by the government, but in spite of this since the announcement, nothing has been said about what will be done, no one has tried to rally support for the policy, and I haven’t even heard that words climate change come out of a politicians mouth.The idea of new coal power stations is still around, and so is the refurbishment of old coal-fired power stations.
I quote president Nasheed of the Maldives;
“To be going on with the obsolete technology is, in my mind, madness.”
This is absolutely true, why build new “obsolete” coal power stations when we can spend that money on renewable energy, why refurbish a power station when a new clean renewable one can be built. It is just “madness” and a massive waste of money. So please tell me, why are there so many new coal fired power stations set to be built.
But then after hearing that, someone from your government will say, we will use natural gas instead. But yet again, it is just as obsolete, and also extremely destructive. In America, many of the natural gas wells are near homes, those homes use bore water. The process of “fracking” to release the gas destroys the clean water in the water table and makes it undrinkable. Then once finished what is done with the chemicals used to “frack”, they are dumped creating waste pools.
Yet again this comes back to using obsolete technology being madness. Which I believe stems from the problem that too many people believe that it is the cheapest, when it is not. What is the cost of coal and natural gas?
It is a small investment up front, say a few million for the power station, but then how much does it cost to maintain, a few more million, but then add in the cost of using this “obsolete” technology into the future, when it is too late to act. It will cost lives, not just plastic prints, but people’s lives, animals lives, and plants lives. Is it worth it to continue using this “cheaper” source of energy.
It is truly only ignorant.
Your own government has said that we before have led the world in taking environmental action, at the time of the ozone problem, so please, with this bigger problem, take bigger action, don’t let Australia be left behind.
So please if not this weekend for 10/10/10, act soon, as it may be too late.
The government was changed because of the Vietnam moratorium, this is bigger, this is international, you, me, WE must all change. Or face the afore-mentioned cost.
Please take this into consideration for further action of this massive issue.
Thank you for reading this
Jarrah Gosbell
As usual, I will post if any reply’s are sent to me. Hopefully this one will help move the government along to get out of the talking fase and start acting.
In the last five weeks I have been annoyed by the lack of leadership shown by the two major party’s, this email talks about this problem, and how none of the current party’s are showing the leadership to stand up and act. The constant scare tactics are getting to the point where it is impossible to have an intelligent conversation about asylum seekers, or climate change policy with the general public. this email was written to voice my frustration with this and many other issues that I have found in both major party’s in the lead up to this election. I encourage you to follow on and send another email like this one, to help drive in the message, add your own story to the start and your own feelings to the end, the more people that show concern the better.
the email is as follows:
Dear Political party’s of Australia.
Today I am writing to tell you the simple story of why I care. Why I care about the wonderful world that we live in, why I care about the in justice that our in-action is causing, and why I care about our actions now, and the way I feel about our country’s major political party’s.
This story started about 7 years ago, when I moved to an island near Gladstone in Queensland, known as Curtis island, I only spent 3 months there, but in that time I became attached to the land, and in many ways still am. While I was there I spent much of my time out in the mostly untouched environment, whether it was on the mangrove filled mudflats, or the dense bushland, I was always out and enjoying the environment there. This was a major time of change in my life, this was the time that I realised that what we are doing for the environment was not good enough. What drove this in was that when I left, the island was proposed for the building of a liquefied natural gas plant. So after enjoying this island for so long I had no option but to attempt to do something about it, I just wish I knew what I do now. I started with emailing the Queensland government, and then moved on to you, the federal political party’s of this great country. But it didn’t work. No-one wanted to listen, no-one wanted to act, and I feel that this was not because it is not a big enough issue, but because the political party’s have lost their way.
This failure led me to move to the youth climate movement, and ever since I have been becoming more vocal about the issue of climate change and how many politicians are simply unwilling to act.
It scares me that the looming danger is simply being ignored and that both of the major political party’s are unwilling to properly act. One of these major party’s leaders have even gone to the point of saying that they don’t trust the science behind the issue, and has obviously used that fact to attempt to destroy the community consensus, while the other tried to put this problem forward and when it failed, attempted to forget about it. This is why I feel that the government has lost its way, this is why I feel that nether of the political party’s are trying to fight for this country’s future. Where has the strength gone in politics? Where has the leadership gone? To me it seems that no one wants to stand up and be different, this is not a playground fight, the country is not in kindergarten, so why are you fighting with, well he said this and she’ll do this? Its time for the real politicians to come back, its time for the people who want to fight for the rights of the people both in and outside of this country to be voted in, and therefore I hope that nether of the major party’s are voted in. The next few days for many of the Australian people are days filled with dread, the dread that the next four years will not be the strong active years we need, but instead, that we will get no-where, and be left with nothing.
To both of the major party’s of this country, I ask, who will be the one to “stand up” and be a real leader?
Who will respond to this email with more than just hate mail of the other party?
And who will just send me a policy outline with a page bashing the other party?
We, the Australian people are over being treated like children,
We are tired of being lied to,
We are annoyed by being manipulated by the politicians of this country, and,
We will not stand for it any more.
Get up, stand up, and be real leaders, you need it, we need it, and we all want it, if you had done it two weeks ago, you would win the election!
So if you try to tell us that you will “stand up for real action” or that you want to “move forward” then stop talking about it, stop lying, stop manipulating, and actually do it.
Thank you for reading this.
Jarrah Gosbell
15 year old student
It is now too late to change the mind of a party before the election, but it may make a difference to the winning party’s attitudes, especially if more like this are sent.
thank you for reading this.
The Australian liberal party has released scare tactic ads about the passable carbon tax that the labor party is supposedly creating, – although I still havent heard any labor representative talk about it yet – and is trying to use it to gain votes. I have sent this email to MR Abbott about the way his government has done this and generally the way they have treated climate change. Hopppfuly it will bring the message home that they are not fooling anyone and they need to “stand up for real action”.
Dear MR Abbott,
Like you I stand for real action, but it seems that I feel this country needs action in a place you are unwilling to act in, climate change. Your ads say that you stand up for action, but then 15 minutes later on the same channel, your government has a scare tactics ad about a carbon tax. If you where really standing up for action you would not be so opposed to the greens party, and would have a real climate policy.
You cannot ignore a voice that is this large, the movement for action on climate change is growing and will not stop until action is taken, we will not give up, because it is our lives and the lives of those around us that we are fighting for. We do not feel that this is “crap” as you have said in the past. To get some idea of the point of view I am coming from, think about the way you would feel if you where fifteen, you have your whole life ahead of you, and you can see a looming problem, one that has the power to destroy the world as we know it, if you had the opportunity, as this fifteen year old, would you act?
From your immigration policy you don’t seem to be a person who likes refugees, but think about this, what would you say to a refugee that has had to move in 30 years time, because their island home is no longer big enough to support their house, because it has been submerged by rising sea levels? What would you tell your children, or their children when they look back and see that you had the opportunity to act on climate change, but stood back and said its “crap”? I know that I couldn’t do ether of these, so could you?
I feel that the best way to start acting is to look at the beyond zero emissions report, that outlines the most cost-effective way to supply electricity using only renewable sources. The report is proven to be economically viable, and would fit in with the governments budget easily. The benefits are massive, if your government said that they will be implementing this plan, they would win back most of the votes that you lost when you said that climate change is “absolute crap” and would lose that reputation. Its would be a win for both your party and everyone that cares about climate change.
Thank you for reading this.
Jarrah Gosbell
15 year old student
If this email is replied to i will post back here with what has been said.
On the 6th of august, I recieved a email back from the liberal MP Greg Hunt, it was basicly a slap in the face, where they took the oppitunity to push their weak policy of 5%, and took the oppitunity to bash the labour policy.
The scare tactics are still here, but do not fall for them, they are false, and i dont know why they where included in the email i received back. Do they think that someone who follows everything around the politics of climate change will believe them?
Recently the labor government has announced its climate change policy, but at the press conference, our prime minster reminded me about the prime minister that i wrote about in starting from may 2010. she constantly contradicted her self and sometimes blatantly lied, so is this the politics we want our country to be run by.
To Miss Gillard
I have recently finished watching your speech about the new climate change policy and I am shocked by what you have said, much of which is purely a lie, or just contradicts itself. You have said that “we will never allow a highly inefficient and dirty power station to be built again in Australia.” but you have then said that all new coal power stations will have to be clean. There is simply no such thing as clean coal, and it will never be efficient, so this is simply a contradiction. You have then said that “Australia cant afford any more delays on climate change” this is the same kind of lying I have seen before with Kevin Rudd on the 7:30 report, if you say that we cant afford to delay on climate change, which we cant, then why do you delay the ETS and say we need to wait for global consensus. These are all delays, and the Australian people just don’t want to hear it.
If we “cant afford any more inquiry’s, reports or investigations into climate change“ why are you setting up the citizens assembly, we tell you like this that something needs to be done, just listen now. And what is the climate change commission about, because it looks to me to be an investigation into climate change, which we both agree we cannot afford and will take to long.
The billion dollars is a good start, but as has been said before this is nothing compared to what is needed, I think that the small scale side is the best to start with, put some form of solar panels on every house that is it possible to do on, start or advertise this by following the 350.org idea of putting solar on the lodge. By 2020 we should have 85 percent of the possible houses with some form of renewable energy, and this will both reduce household energy costs and emissions, as well as cheapening the long term need for maintenance of the grid, and it is possible.
We should follow this up with the large scale by creating a strong ETS before 2013, and moving the grid to renewable energy, as outlined in the below zero emissions report. This should be done together, and as quickly as possible. I recognise that this is a hard job and that it cannot be done at the flick of a switch, but just imagine how hard it will be for the people of the future that will have to live with it if we don’t do anything now, that is not the world I want to live in, and I have the right to choose. So please stop blaming, stop delaying and stop thinking people like me will just go away. As you have alluded to we need tough action now, so please for the future of this country act now.
Thank you for taking the time to read this
Jarrah Gosbell
15 year old student
If this email is replied to i will post back here with more information on that repily, but last time that happened, peter garratt did not know what he was talking about.
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