It's time for action
I address the letter from Bill Whitham, 'It's nothing new' (The Border Mail letters to the editor, June 19).
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No one disputes that climate change has been happening for millions of years, it is evolution after all. But the human impact on speeding this up is approaching tipping point and yes, it sadly has hit a state of emergency. Just ask our emergency service workers.
Population is talked about often with climate change, but perhaps it is not talked about often enough.
We know that as human-impacted climate change takes greater effect around the world it is going to see populations displaced - think Pacific islands. That is why we must have the conversations around population, food and water security, endangered species, and energy production.
If Australia was able to put into action all the renewable energy projects currently in planning we could be 100 per cent renewable by 2040, quite easily.
We know some projects may not get legs due to development issues ie environmental studies - this is not a bad thing. After all we are doing this to save our environment. Energy production is one aspect of reducing our Co2, energy is just the easiest and the quickest.
I feel we are at the same place as the tobacco industry was some 30-plus years ago.
So, do we want to do as much as we can to drastically reduce the human impact or do we want to keep going and take the risk?
It was innovation of the industrial revolution that got us into this mess and it will be innovation that will get us out.
Bobbi McKibbin, Wodonga
Come and celebrate
I am writing you, as the Albury-Wodonga Farmers Market is celebrating its 17 year anniversary this week.
The market, previously known as Hume Murray Farmers Market, was established in 2002 to connect the residents of Southern NSW and North East Victoria with locally grown, fresh produce.
Held weekly, the Albury-Wodonga Farmers Market is set up at Gateway Island, on the Lincoln Causeway, on the boundary of Albury and Wodonga.
One of the oldest producers is Willowbank, which has been attending the market since the very beginning.
Byron Gray still remembers the almost clear winter sky and the two magpies chatting nearby vividly.
Seventeen years of fresh produce on the Border and still all farmers and producers are local to the Albury-Wodonga region. Many travel to bring fresh seasonal fruit and veggies, eggs, cheese, baked sourdough bread, preserves, artisan cakes and pies, meat including beef, lamb, pork and hand-crafted small goods.
We ask that you come and celebrate today at the Gateway Village, from 8am until noon. And we look forward to many more years in the community on both sides of the border.
Pia Frei, Albury-Wodonga Farmers Market
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