Walks are expected to take place in more than 50 cities and towns across Australia, with walks already locked in for the marginal NSW seats of Parramatta, Dobell, Page and Eden-Monaro.
Pre-registrations for Walk Against Warming are already showing participation is likely to more than double from 2006 when 40,000 marched in Sydney and 100,000 took part nationally.
This election is about either taking climate control or causing climate chaos. A 2-degree change in temperature is the point of no return. Australian and leading scientists around the world agree that the worst impacts of climate change will happen if temperatures rise higher than 2-degrees.
A short and a long term target to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, together with ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would put the country on track to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Australians are acutely aware of how serious a threat climate change poses for our future and they know that the 2011 election will be too late to make the difference that is possible if action is taken now.
Nine-year-old Jack Simmons, the star of The Climate Institute’s $2.5 million climate change advertising campaign, said he wants a safe and healthy future and asked for politicians to think of young Australians when making announcements on climate change.
“I think me and my friends will see more storms and bushfires than the grown ups who are making the decisions now are. I’m going to go on the Walk Against Warming, and I’ll do everything I can to get people to think about climate change this election, because the only thing I can’t do is vote. “To get involved in Walk Against Warming visit
www.walkagainstwarming.org.
