It’s Getting Hot In Here

Nearly nine weeks ago, 22-year-old Sarah Bishop started out on a giant walk from Brisbane to Sydney, Australia, to raise awareness about climate change. Inspired by An Inconvenient Truth and the book The Weather Makers by Australian of the Year, Tim Flannery, Sarah realised that to make a difference we would have to start acting now.

The walk also includes a schools program, a renewable energy initiative for surf life saving clubs, council/community meetings and presentations and promotes solutions people can take on an individual level or through other climate change campaigns.

Once complete Sarah’s walk will total approximately 1000km (621 miles), the distance from Charlotte to New York City and within days of her destination, Sarah answered the following questions for Its Getting Hot In Here.

• What was it in the book The Weather Makers which motivated you to raise awareness about climate change?
There were three main points raised in The Weather Makers which motivated me to raise awareness about climate change…
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Earlier this (election) year, a new Federal Environment Minister was appointed in the Australian Government, former Parliamentary Secretary, Malcolm Turnbull. Last week, movie-goers from the new Minister’s electorate were the first to see a new advertisement in cinemas of young Australians demanding immediate and decisive action on climate change, adding to pressure for the new Minister to deliver on climate change and for the Australian government to ratify Kyoto.
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