‘We need to stick to the Paris agreement, we need to stop burning coal and we need to commit to more renewable energy,’ Longreach farmer says.
Those two sentences are the opening lines to a new advertisement challenging the federal government’s stance on climate change and the drought in Australia’s eastern states.
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In the clip, she calls for “politicians to stop dancing around the issue and help us to do something about this”.
“We need to stick to the Paris agreement, we need to stop burning coal and we need to commit to more renewable energy,” she says.
Last week hundreds of farmers and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra demanding action on climate change.
Brown said she had become increasingly disappointed at Canberra’s unwillingness to discuss the current drought in the context of climate change. »
