Erosion, climate change hot topics for Mur’bah enviro day
CLIMATE change has been debated on the political stage for years but according to the Caldera Environment Centre in Murwillumbah its impact on humanity is indisputable.
According the centre's coordinator Sam Dawson, all sand that is 1.5m above sea level on the coast in "big trouble".
"Rising sea levels and erosion in Kingscliff and Bryon Bay are a small taste of what's to come if increasing CO2 production and the subsequent increase in temperatures is not addressed," Mr Dawson said.
A World Environment Day Festival will be held on Sunday at Knox Park, Murwillumbah, and will give residents the opportunity to learn about climate change and its impact on the Tweed.
"Human-induced climate change is now self-evident. Understanding it is as important to residents of the Tweed as it is to small island states, which the focus of the international World Environment Day campaign by the United Nations," Mr Dawson explained.
At the Festival, anti-climate advocates will focus on their motto, "raise your voice and not the sea-level", designed to encourage "people in affluent societies like Australia to become more active and involved in making a difference by speaking out in defence of the environment," Mr Dawson said.
