Is Our Environment in the “Too Hard Basket”

When I was at school I learnt all about the environment, I tried my best to save the world from the harsh effects of the hole in the ozone layer, I was the proudest kid to be part of our school “Earth Keepers” program. This was 1987, before recycling bins, before “Clean Up Australia Day”, before “Climate Change”. We all changed our behaviours to “do the right thing”.

Fast forward to 2002 and the Environmental movement was stronger than ever, we have learnt about Climate Change, we started yet again to change our behaviours and over the next decade changed our homes accordingly. We became energy efficient, installed low energy lights, solar panels, solar hot water, fuel efficient cars, dug a vegetable patch and reduced our water usage.

In the last three years there has been little in the movement, nothing has progressed, no new solutions. Where has the leadership gone? Where are the people giving us advice on what we can do to make our environment a better place? In my opinion the next solution is Battery Storage, but there has been no information in main stream media.

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) we should be aiming for a carbon neutral planet by 2050. It has taken 27 years to get this far, are we able to take our energy efficiency to the next level?

I know as a country we can, we just need the right leadership and information to make the changes required and step by step we will make this planet better.

For more information on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, click here to read the press release. 

Amber Ferguson