While EuroCouncil continue to deny Climate Change Australia is being delivered another message

While Council continue to deny Climate Change Australia is being delivered another message from Eurobodalla that does not sit well for the voting bloc under Mayor Innes who wish to only acknowledge that weather is "variable and changing", thereby putting a wall up to any initiative to move that Council might lead the community in local discussions and actions. The Council has now been the venue for several community protests to which the Mayor remains absent and not wishing to engage. Two very well attended Student Strikes for Climate Change, prior to last year's bushfires' saw speakers, one after another, show their concerns of the lack of any leadership by Council in accepting any responsibility at a local level or accepting the fact that there may well be a climate emergency. Such a call to recognise a climate emergency was put forward by Green's councillor, Pat McGinlay, however his motion was defeated at the hands of the voting bloc supported by the Mayor. More recently the protest have continued and the impacts of the fires have made it evident that the repercussions of the fires, that have been officially recognised as being caused by Climate Change, did in fact give grounds for the acknowledgement of a climate emergency. The community have made clear that there were impacts well beyond the loss of council infrastructure of burnt bridges and assets. More recently the long term impacts on health, both mental and physical are coming to the fore. The latest of these articles appears in Croakey, independent, in-depth social journalism for health: A plea for climate action from the bushfire crisis frontlines

Read the Croakey article HERE