Walk Against Warming, Sunday 15th August

Earlier in the week I promised I’d talk about some ways to make your vote count in this election. This might look like an event announcement, but I think it’s a great way to give your vote some extra oomph.

This year’s Walk Against Warming is actually pretty quick after the last one that happened back in December. It’s going to be held on Sunday 15th August, the Sunday before the election, and the organisers are hoping to get huge numbers of people.

Check the Walk Against Warming website to find out details of where your city is holding the walk. I’ll be at the Esplanade in Fremantle at noon with some friends, if you’re going to be there too let me know in the comments and we can try to meet up.

From the website:

We’re going green and clean. We’re reducing our greenhouse pollution and recycling our waste. We’re saving water and energy, and buying greenpower. And we’re forming climate action groups – all across the country.

Meanwhile our leaders have been all talk, backflips, and delays. They’ve given us rising pollution and a free ride for big polluters. This election, help us put the pressure on our political leaders…

Protest marches don’t directly bring about change. But what they do is to show how many people believe in the cause enough to get off their butts and make a public statement about it.

Right now, politicians in the Labor party and the Coalition think they can sideline climate change as an issue. They think the penalty for ignoring it won’t be as harsh as the hassle they get from the fossil fuel companies. We need to show them there’s more of us wanting climate action than they’ve reckoned on, and that we’re prepared to vote accordingly. They can have all the campaign finance from big business that they want, but businesses don’t get a vote: they need us if they want to win their seats.