TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ! delete if not interested
From: Viv Forbes [mailto:forbes@carbon-sense.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 7:29 AM
To: Whom it may concern
Subject: Saltbush Club – A Time for Action
Thanks to hundreds of supporters we have built a Saltbush vehicle that cannot be easily dismissed. We have skills and numbers.
https://saltbushclub.com/about/
In addition to our Foundation Members, we have a growing list of Supporting Members plus our Silent Members and a big mail list of interested people not yet committed.
If you have not joined yet, please do. It is now time to go into action. An election looms and we must influence the climate of public opinion so that climate-smart and carbon-friendly ideas become accepted.
We need wide publicity of our existence, membership, skills and priorities. We must kill the idea of a “scientific consensus” and raise public concern about current policy directions on climate, energy and infrastructure.
Our top priority is to have Australia withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement with all of its adverse consequences. Then stop the destruction of our reliable electricity generators by the floods and droughts from wind/solar energy and start building dams and managing our water properly. And instead of wasting money trying to change our climate, we should divert that flood of cash to weather-proofing our road, rail, electricity and water infrastructure.
Other priorities are listed here:
https://clexit..net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saltbush-priorities.pdf
You can help in this – we all have our own contacts among media, politicians and the public. Please forward our releases etc to every one of them. It is good if they get it from several directions. Email them or phone them or drop in and see them with some printed docs. Do not just focus on the top level – even the local editor/reporter/MP is important. If anyone can email every politician that is good. Build your own mail lists..
DO NOT waste time/energy on committed Greens (it is generally counter-productive – it will just alert and energise them – most of them will never change).
Look outwards – it is of little value to be forever debating among ourselves. I have wasted too much of my life organising and speaking to meetings among the converted. We do not need to preach to the converted but we do need to energise them to recruit more disciples. We will advise you of any useful meetings that others organise and we can spread ideas there. We must always look outwards and keep nudging.
Public opinion is like a huge ocean liner. It has a momentum of its own. We will never stop it by meeting it head on. But a small tug boat nudging the bow can turn that mighty vessel around and soon, with few people noticing, it is steaming in the other direction.
And a camp-drafter does not meet the steer head-on – his horse gets beside the shoulder and shoves and soon the galloping steer is going the other direction.
So please help in any way you feel comfortable with. Concentrate on media people, opinion leaders or politicians on their way up with letters, emails, phone calls or visits. It does not matter if they are not friendly or do not report or act on it immediately – they generally do listen and are alert to changing public opinion. Ideas get absorbed.
If you can help with publicity on social media please do so.
The Saltbush web site now has lots of useful pieces on it. Glance down the list of posts here:
https://saltbushclub.com/w4pl/post-list/
Send links to people, add comments or post on social media. Pls help make our web site well known. Feel free to repost things anywhere. Write your own short letters to editors.
We have many allies all over the world. Support them.
In Australia Jo Nova does a great job – https://joannenova.com.au/
And Pickering Post often gives us a run:
https://www.pickeringpost.com/glance/what-are-they-plotting-in-poland/8712
And David Evans in the Wentworth Report at:
https://wentworthreport.com/?s=forbes
Finally, we will soon send you the first Saltbush Circulating Letter entitled;
“Why Australia should EXIT PARIS NOW.”
Please make sure it circulates.
Viv Forbes 16 Jan 2019
