Oxfam’s Sisters on the Planet - taking action to stop climate change

Climate change impacts are happening now, more rapidly and at lower global temperature increases than previously projected. Our Pacific neighbours, the Carteret Islanders, are already losing land to the ocean. In Oxfam’s new film, Sisters on the Planet,  Ursula is working to relocate affected families,  and points out that “climate change is not just about statistics, it’s about human rights.”

Steps to a safe-climate future

• Stop emissions now to cool the Earth
• Transition to a post-carbon economy
• Remove carbon from the atmosphere through replanting trees
• Remove carbon from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon into the soil.

“We require only 10% of our productive, degraded lands to absorb the estimated 6.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions to make a carbon negative world possible in our lifetime” - www.amazingcarbon.com. Only farmers can achieve the outcomes on the scale required, effective immediately.

What can you do?

If you’re not a farmer or a corporate industrialist, you can still make changes that matter. Every little thing helps. If you haven’t already, try some of the following:

• Reduce your home and transport greenhouse pollution
• Switch to green power
• Petition the government to take serious action
• Be informed and sign up at www.aclimateforchange.org
• Support carbon farmers - buy organic and biodynamic food
• Turn your home garden into a carbon sink by using biodynamic preparations, compost and mulch. (Wanting to learn how? Attend Eileen Kaufman’s Carbon Gardening Workshop on 26 September in Sydney, followed by screening of Sisters on the Planet documentary. Go to www.bioorganicgardener.com for details.)