Australia's Unstable Fossil Fuel Dependancy

About this episode

The episode discusses Australia's fossil fuel dependency and the transition to renewable energy, featuring insights from experts in agriculture and health.

To get a better understanding on Australia’s unreliable fossil fuel dependency, we’ll be hearing from the Doctors for the Environment Australia’s Afterhours Webinar: Quitting Our Oil Dependency discussing the effects the fuel crises is having in agricultural, medical and renewable energy sectors. Dr Kate Wylie, Executive Director of DEA, hosts with guests Peter Holding from Farmers for Climate Action, Dr Kim Humphrey also part of DEA and Francis Vierboom from Rewiring Australia. Exploring the opportunity we have been presented with from this exposition to move to more reliable, cleaner renewable energy in Australia. If you would like to hear the rest of the Webinar you can go to YouTube and go to Doctors For the Environment Australia and go to the video: Quitting our Oil Dependency: Protecting our communities from global oil volatility for our healthYou can also learn more about DEA through their website, dea.org.au, where you can also find an open letter to Australian governments urging them to break out dependance on global oil and chose a healthier future. One of our Climate Action Show members, Antimony, ran into a few local activists outside of MP Sarah Witty’s office in…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Kate Wylie

Guests: Peter Holding, Dr Kim Humphrey, Francis Vierboom

Topics covered

• fossil fuel dependency
• renewable energy
• climate action
• agriculture
• health
• protests

Keywords

• fossil fuels
• renewable energy
• climate change
• Australia
• Doctors for the Environment
• protests
• oil dependency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Doctors for the Environment Australia, Farmers for Climate Action, Rewiring Australia, Labour

Places: Australia, Fitzroy, Melbourne

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