What is it going to take, asks climate activist Violet Coco, to stop the death machine, to save humanity and the living world? We first need to find the engine, the beating heart of this global materialist-consumerist-industrial civilisation. Jared Diamond observed, in Collapse, that some past civilisations’ greatest accomplishments came just as they began to Continue reading »
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The people and companies behind the controversial hydrogen lobby winning tens of millions in funding - including one key player also making huge donations to Conservatives
This General Election will be “pivotal for people and the planet” as 'MP Watch' election campaign targeting climate action 'delayers' launched
Big old trees are few in number but store lots of carbon. Loopholes found in Victoria’s ban on native tree logging. Great Barrier Reef bleaches for fifth time in eight years. Which trees hold the most carbon? The somewhat complicated figure below illustrates a very important point: the few, older, larger trees in primary forests Continue reading »
Imagine you have been asked by the Australian government to draft its new population policy. You first ask to see the old policy but are told there isn’t one: immigration policy has been the de-facto population policy for as long as anyone can remember. You start to make a list of relevant issues. First, you Continue reading »
Where “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell) and when drilling methane wells reduces global warming. Having turned a blind eye to climate science, ignoring the evidence that extreme atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) rise and ocean acidification have led to mass extinctions of species through time, humanity allows Continue reading »
Matt Gallagher watched Guardian columnist George Monbiot make the case for a 'politics of belonging' – but how to get there?
The Southern Ocean controls how much carbon is released into the atmosphere—and our warming world is changing it.
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It sounds wonderful. Politicians and fossil fuel companies love it. But more often than not carbon capture and storage (CCS) is raised as a smokescreen for something that will harm the world. What do Anthony Albanese, Angus Taylor, David Littleproud, Barack Obama, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin and Joe Biden have in common? All are Continue reading »
Craig Foster on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Amphibious Soul.
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