build your own Climate Action Score!
Which leaders are really doing
something about Climate Change?
- Science-based serious emissions reduction targets and net zero emissions date
- Protect flora and fauna
- Fossil fuels ‘just’ transition program
- Energy efficiency plan including clean energy export industry
- Agriculture and land management program
- Price on carbon and price on polluters
- Transport and industry program
- Independent Climate Change Commission with real watchdog powers
- ‘Have a go ya mug!’ - really using political position to get climate action
How will I know my new scorecard is not politically biased?
- Scores for each criteria are more objective than ever. They are sourced by examining the Federal parliamentary voting record in Hansard.
- Bills are subjected to the ‘pub test’ by our ‘brains trust’ of impartial science, business, environmental and political pundits to decide whether we should support or oppose them.
- Criteria number 9 “Have a go ya mug” is the traditional Aussie cry at a sporting contest when somebody doesn’t seem to be really trying. This is included in the Score because if a politician doesn't vote on a bill they automatically get marked down.
- Election promises that are dpnt result in action get nothing - because that's what they’re worth!
- This is how you would vote if the election was tomorrow to get maximum action on climate change.
- On LOMA(Local Matters) you can build you own page. By following groups and politicians, voting with experts and generating an Alignment Score of your own you will learn about how we make a better future and be able to hold politicians to account every day and at the ballot box.
You pledge to be a Climate Voter. We do the rest!
Politicians only act when their jobs depend on it. So Vote Earth Now is going to make their jobs depend on it.
At Vote Earth Now, you keep track of which politicians are taking the biggest climate action – voting on motions and enacting legislation. Not talking, doing.
You n longer need to register your intent to vote on climate by sending an email notifying your local Member of Parliament. Just following or voting-with Vote Earth Now on LOMA shows politicians how many people are willing to swing on climate.
When politicians, particularly those in vulnerable electorates, see the wave of concerned Australians ready to turn against them, they will have no option but to act.
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If we all convince our friends and family to be climate voters we will have the power of our numbers to demand action
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Climate change is real
and is the number one problem facing life on earth.
Enough talk about climate change. Time to act!
We’re not here to talk about impending climate disaster. You’re here because you’re already aware of that. Over 90% of Australians want government action on climate change (Lowy Institute 2021). We’re here because while Australia ranks 193rd out of 193 countries in the world, our government doesn’t seem to care.
Government has 10 times the power to address climate change than private people and private enterprise (Bill Gates 2020). The answer is quite simple, to fix the climate, you must fix the government. We have the means to do just that. It's called Vote Earth Now.
Now, as a politician, your fate is tied to that of the planet: Time to Act
Vote Earth Now will be monitoring every action taken by our politicians. We will tell you who has a track record of action.
BE WARNED: You may have to change your vote to get action. Politicians want power. Political parties get into power by winning the marginal electorates.
We must show we will ‘swing’ these marginal electorates. Real leaders know we cannot wait for markets and private citizens to fix climate change. We must help those real leaders. We must make politicians understand that we need legislation now to give public and private enterprise the ability to change Australia and the world for the better – and we will vote with this as our number one priority.
Black and Green: We Stand With Life on Earth
Our purpose is to be the voice for both people and animals. The colours we have chosen for Vote Earth Now represent this. Black, for mourning the unnecessary death of billions of native animals. Green, for being the green light for political climate action, the regeneration of our earth and a prosperous carbon neutral future.
Climate change is the most urgent issue facing humanity today. Climate change and its impact is real and it’s up to us to fix it
The consequences of climate change are already here and are getting increasingly more urgent. The link between human production of carbon dioxide and climate change is irrefutable. And Australia is high on the list – the canary in the poisonous coal mine. From destroying the Great Barrier Reef to the bushfires killing nearly 3 billion animals, we need to do better – now!
Australia is a first world country with an abundance of renewable resources – we could lead the way!
We should be showing the world how to implement large-scale solutions, such as solar power, wind farms and renewable energy. Instead, we are the pariahs of the global community – doing the absolute minimum under the Paris Climate Agreement and ‘shooting ourselves in the foot’ by missing opportunities to invest early in carbon neutral industries.
We should:
- Strengthen the economy by prioritising climate change.
- Increase renewable energy production by proven methods: solar, wind, pumped hydro, battery storage, hydrogen production and export.
- Reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and provide fossil fuel workers with a future by retraining them – a ‘just’ transition.
- Stop subsidising fossil fuels and stop taxing renewables
- Take steps to protect our native animals
We should be proud of and protect our beautiful country – not continue using up its resources to increase the profits of a handful of billionaires and prop up doomed industries.
Pledge Your Vote For Action!
Together, by declaring ourselves Climate Voters, we can demand action
Politicians want reassurance that if they actually act it will win them votes and elections: Let’s give it to them!
We must make politicians understand not only that we want legislation that will give public and private enterprise certainty to change Australia and the world for the better, but that we will vote them in based on this as our number one priority. By making Vote Earth Now go viral we can make our vote tally grow into big numbers and get the attention of politicians, giving them reassurance that if they actually act it will win them votes and elections.