Open Letter to Australian Federal MPs: young betrayed & climate revolution now
Dear Senator and Honorable Member,
83,000 Australians die preventably each year and of these 10,000 die from carbon fuel burning pollutants. Globally, 7 million people die from air pollution each year (WHO) and 100,000 of these die from burning of exported Australian carbon fuels.
Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price of US$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent, the inescapable Carbon Debt for the world is US$540 trillion and increasing at US$20 trillion per year, and for Australia is US$11 trillion and increasing at US$600 billion per year and at US$60,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians.
Noting that the average HECS Debt [student debt via the Australian university fees-paying Higher Education Contribution Scheme] is about A$20,000 and that tertiary education is free in many countries, top quality undergraduate tertiary education can be provided at 10% of the current cost through casual academic teachers and at 1% of the current cost by expert, accrediting examination of MOOCs emplaced on the web for free by top US universities.
A catastrophic 2C temperature rise now appears inevitable, the forthcoming Paris betrayal will mean a disastrous plus 3C, the present capitalism-determined plus 1C is already disastrous for Island nations and the Biosphere, and utterly betrayed, deceived and robbed young people will demand “Climate Revolution Now”.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya (300.org; contact details).
“2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course .
300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org .
“300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
“Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ .
"Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution .
“Cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020”: https://sites.google.com/site/cutcarbonemissions80by2020/ .
“100% renewable energy by 2020”: https://sites.google.com/site/100renewableenergyby2020/ .
“Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
“Gas is not clean energy”: https://sites.google.com/site/gasisnotcleanenergy/ .
“Biofuel Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/biofuelgenocide/ .
“Divest from fossil fuels”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/divest-from-fossil-fuels .
“Climate Justice & Intergenerational Equity”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-justice .
“Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .
“Stop climate crime”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-climate-crime .
“Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed .
“Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban .
"Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .