‘They unwittingly unleashed a powerful community campaign’

Jess Moore from Stop CSG Illawarra addressed Occupy Sydney at Martin Place on October 22. Moore, who is also a member of the Socialist Alliance, was awared the NSW Nature Conservation Council's Rising Star award for "the most outstanding environmental effort of an individual under 30". The intro to her speech appears below. For the full speech click here.

'To increase the wealth of the already astoundingly wealthy, the tiny few, the planet that sustains all life is being destroyed. As the world’s leading climatologist James Hansen said, this is our last chance to save humanity.

At the same time we’re seeing the 1%, and the institutions that represent them, roll out the most environmentally destructive practices the world has ever seen.

This system is in crisis because you cannot have the constant growth that capitalism requires on a finite planet.'