The Big Switch

Now that climate change is on the agenda for the upcoming federal election, have you wondered what your MP thinks about it? Probably not! But now that I’ve asked you, I’m sure you’re curious

The Big Switch sent out a survey about climate change and it’s solutions to each sitting Member of Parliament. You can search for your Federal MP to see what their climate change policies are. If they haven’t answered The Big Switch survey, you can email it to them to see if they respond. They’ve also assessed the policies of the major parties plus a few of the minor ones (Democrats, Greens, Family First), and some opposing candidates are answering the survey too.

I sent the survey to the Labor MP for my seat and haven’t had a reply yet. I also emailed Kevin Rudd: first I got a form letter response with Labor’s general environment policy, so I replied that that was nice but I’d like to see the survey questions answered. Recently I got another form letter from his office, but this time more closely addressing the survey questions. I sent it to the Big Switch to see if it could be used to give Rudd a rating on climate change, so we’ll see how that goes.

The site also has information about what climate change is, what you can do about it, and what people in your community are doing about it. It’s very encouraging to see so many people making an effort to change their lifestyles and neighbourhoods.