The road to zero carbon

CLIMATE CHANGE

THE Federal Government recently announced it had committed $76 million to a tourism recovery package in a bid to protect jobs and support small business devastated by fires. Now serious and urgent attention needs to be taken to reduce the CO2 footprint of the tourism industry. A recent study showed that globally tourism is responsible for 8–10 per cent of emissions. Tourism is responsible for increasing CO2 and this is adding to planetary heating and making Australia even more vulnerable to major firestorms.

In Tasmania, rental vehicles should use our clean electricity rather than being run on fossil fuels. This would be better for our environment, make a positive contribution to climate change, create jobs and reduce imports. Tourism authorities and industry bodies at a state and federal level need to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to achieve zero carbon tourism. Gerry White

Cradoc and human devastation and to recklessly and condescendingly ignore and denigrate all those who demand action.

Stop using public money to prop up the fossil fuel industry. Stop allowing the development of coalmines and gas explorations. Transition to 100 per cent renewable energies by 2030. We have the technology, our leaders just need the will power. Sue Henn Taroona

Wangan and Jagalingou homelands, ceremonial grounds and aquifers were granted to Adani, despite future irreversible drying of water sources. Queensland coal, exported to fuel an Adani power plant in Gooda, India, will be exported to Bangladesh. Farmers who protested destruction of their mango orchards, paddy land, coconut palms, were charged with trespassing. Adani Group has a 50-year commercial deal with a military subsidiary to construct an international port terminal in Yangon, Myanmar. In August, the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged the global community to sever ties with the military and its companies. Revenue the military earns from domestic and foreign business deals enables it to conduct gross violations of human rights crimes with impunity.

Australian lawyer Chris Sidoti, one of three authors of a UN report that called for Myanmar’s armed forces to be prosecuted with genocide of Rohingya, warns that Australian coal from Adani mine will help fund Myanmar’s violation of human rights. It is time Australia cut its ties with Adani and stopped the Queensland mine. Nancy Hudson-Rodd

North Hobart