Emergency Service: police officer
Why are you participating in the 6000-kilometre Run for a Safe Climate? I grew up in a farming community in Country Victoria and have many friends still on the land. The last ten years for them has been brutal. I have watched the drought slowly choke small country towns to the brink of despair, both economically and socially. My grandfather farmed the land in an era when rainfall and the seasons were predictable. A drought may have occurred once in a decade as part of a natural cycle and only last for a year. This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
What do you hope to achieve through the run? I am hoping that the last ten years of dry weather is just another natural cycle but you can’t ignore science. Something needs to be done to stop the damage of global warming and this run is my way of raising awareness to a dire situation.