Rod Quantock

CAMPAIGN ENDS 22.12.14
I’m a comedian of long standing. My special subject is Climate Change and The Limits to growth, and my time starts… Now!

Climate change, the escalating human and economic costs of ‘natural’ disasters, peak oil, environmental degradation, over-population, geo-political instability and water and food shortages will impact our world and our ways dramatically over the next decades. Years of inaction mean these impacts are now inevitable and immediate.

The Last Tim Tam is a 12 month research project to develop a new way of communicating the impacts of Climate Change and the Limits to Growth because the old ways have clearly not worked.

When Tony Abbott said, “Coal is good for humanity”, and there was no public outrage, no cries of “Bring back the guillotine”, it was clear that the issue of Climate Change was dead in the rising waters. It was also clear the Dear Leader is either criminally insane or a ventriloquist’s dummy.

The Liberal’s vengeful zealotry and deeply worrying ignorance have purged scientists, strangled institutions, demonised dissent and axed climate change and sustainability initiatives that took years of stoic and heroic struggle to achieve. The intent is clear. The consequences lethal.

Anyway, bottom line: We are back where we started. Why? Because, among other things, Climate Change is always about Polar Bears or The Great Barrier Reef or hurricanes somewhere else. But people couldn’t give a bugger about Polar Bears or The Great Barrier Reef or hurricanes somewhere else

THE LAST TIM TAM is about the things people do give a bugger about; things like Tim Tams. (Hint for our lucky first 50 viewers: Stock up.) People give a bugger about Tim Tams, they love Tim Tams. And football, they love football and Frisbees and handbags and honeymoons, BBQ’s and beaches and buttons and bows, clothes pegs and cantaloupes, tablets and toiletries, plastics and Parmesan, leisure and luxuries, brown paper packages tied up with string... well, you get the idea.

The project combines a broad spectrum of scientific research and academic collaboration to create a catalogue of what people will and won’t have, where they can and can’t live and what they can and can’t do in 2030. I chose 2030 because it’s close enough to be personal and far enough away to plan for. And what we plan for is key.
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I was recently invited to become an Associate of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (Can a knighthood be far away?) based at the University of Melbourne and I have their non-financial support for a major research project. The funds raised by this campaign will address the 'non-financial' part of the equation.

I feel very strongly that THE LAST TIM TAM will make a difference to public attitudes and action.

Thank you,
Rod Quantock

If you wish to know more please contact me at [email protected] .

This a 12 month research project.
$32,000 will cover my time and expenses.
$6000 for web design and live forum set-up and running costs.
Total: $38,000

I am conscious that the amount I am seeking is large and therefore I ask all who get this far to spread the word about The Last Tim Tam.