Midnight Oil frontman and environmental campaigner Peter Garrett has urged Labor to stare down the 'self interest' within its ranks and commit to ambitious plans to avoid the 'catastrophe' of climate change
Midnight Oil frontman and environmental campaigner Peter Garrett has urged Labor to stare down the "self interest" within its ranks and commit to ambitious plans to avoid the "catastrophe" of climate change.
"The natural world is under siege. The threat we face is literally existential," Mr Garrett told the gathering of about 100 people at the Keg and Brew Hotel in Sydney's Surry Hills."We are surrounded by fires, force-fed by a super hot spring. Our cities and towns are blanketed with smoke and the sun has gone out, it’s hard to breathe."
Mr Garrett said progressive politics must realise the world was "witnessing a tectonic shift" in the climate and its faith was waning in established institutions.
The Australian music legend said a climate movement within Labor needed to "build coalitions" and "avoid the eternal temptation of descending into tribes" to put the country on a path towards a zero carbon economy.
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