Planet is on thin ice

Narooma News

By Stan Gorton
Wednesday, 20 September 2006

Moruya lawyer Julia Mayo-Ramsay last Sunday was fortunate enough to be invited to the premier of Al Gore's new film "An Inconvenient Truth" at Fox Studios in Sydney where she got to meet the former US vice president.

In the documentary, Mr Gore criticises Australia and the United States as the only countries not to ratify the Kyoto protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

"Climate change is a bigger threat to world security than terrorism and the world's industrial countries must cut their greenhouse gas pollution before they can demand developing nations take action", Mr Gore said.

Climate change looms as the defining issue of the 21st century, and among the most persistent threats to life on the planet as we know it.

"With our low lying coastal towns, and forestry, dairy and fishing industries already subject to delicate balances, the Eurobodalla stands to be an early victim of global warming if nothing is done," Ms Mayo-Ramsey said.

Mr Gore is on a mission to tackle the problem of global warming at a grassroots level by changing the way people buy, use and consume.

"We too are trying to tackle the problem of climate change at a local level and following on from the Tathra Clean Energy for Eternity rally and public meeting in Bega on August 21, we will be organising a number of community meetings in the Eurobodalla over the next few months, to discuss global warming and involve people at the grassroots level in setting targets for change," she said.