CLIMATE ACTION SHOW -  AUGUST 22ND 2022Produced by Vivien LangfordT I P P I N G  P O I N T S - IN NATURE AND SOCIETY Guests:Music by Tom Hume - "Petition" and Tambah Project " Our Song"- https://environmentalmusicprize.com/ Erica Chernoweth with Shankar Vedantam  - https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-to-change-the-world/ August 7th Climate Rally in Sydney organised by Knitting Nanas and Water for Rivers Alison Boyd - Greens MLC NSW Parliament Rilka   -   Blockade Australia Paul Keating - Sydney Branch Secretary of Maritime Union of Australia Paddy Gibson - Workers for Climate Action &  Jumbunna Institute https://www.uts.edu.au/research/jumbunna-institute-indigenous-education-and-research David Spratt - Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restorationhttps://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/climatedominoes Nick Breeze - Producer of Climate Genn. Please check out these fine podcasts from UK https://genn.cc/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9wB0P3Y5d0 TIPPING POINTS IN NATURE AND SOCIETY The burning question is what forms of Climate Action  work? Are the harsh new anti protest laws a sign that Government fears the huge changes demanded by campaigners?  Is  ABC  RN turning up at a Blockade Australia safe place a sign? I was delighted. It was daring for the ABC. Geoff Thompson's Background Briefing is well worth a listen, though 3CR has been reporting on this movement for ages.  We are looking for social tipping points when the majority of people understand that direct action is needed.  Nature understands the tipping points of hot house gasses, the Antarctic Ice shelf just crumbles..... and you know the rest.PODCAST :  https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/inside-the-climate-activists-plan-to-shut-down-australia/101324992  In search of what climate action works, I quote from Erica Chernoweth's study on how Non Violent Action has more lasting effects than Violent revolution, especially if we all get behind it. Then I go to the Sydney Climate Rally of August 7th. The harsh new anti protest laws and imminent opening of new gas wells are upermost in our minds.Paddy Gibson talks about the hopes of the Gommeroi people that the new government will stop the Santos Gas project in the Pilliga. Yet Santos is attempting to overide their Native title to establish  850 gas wells in the Pilliga Forest.Paul Keating and Abigail Boyd voice the massive opposition from unions and civil society groups to the new police powers over protesters and Rilka speaks about how harshly they had been applied to Blockade Australia. Then we hear from David Spratt talking to Nick Breeze about climate risk. He says that the IPCC is giving policy makers the wrong message.   For him the only question is "What is the worst that can happen and what do we need to do to prevent it? Breaking news : Paul Gilding's comments on changing our focus from reducing emissions to slowing the RATE of warming by cancelling methane."Much of the climate debate and its central arguments were formed in the 1990s when we perceived we had decades to get things under control. The context has now dramatically changed. The 2020s already see unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires, floods, emerging food crises and related geopolitical conflict – and yet this process has just begun. Every fraction of a degree of warming now brings us closer to climate tipping points that if breached, could lead to a runaway process we cannot control. We are teetering on that edge.Therefore, we need to reset the debate to have a laser focus on the immediate rate of warming and everything that influences it.This will not be easy. History shows that most large-scale global change happens with many distributed actions. Rather than ‘death by a thousand cuts’, it’s more like ‘life by a thousand little victories.’ Thus, most arguments about the merits of different possible actions on climate change, end up with the same conclusion – we need an ‘all of the above’ strategy. We