The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. Sustainable development is our declared goal, meaning economic prosperity, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace. Yet our reality is continued poverty amidst plenty, widening inequalities, deepening environmental crises, and war. To get back on track, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has wisely called Continue reading »
climate
Big banks keep providing big money to fossil fuel companies but it’s time for the Global North to invest for the future and pay its historic climate debt to the Global South. Diminishing Sagebrush is threatening the USA’s Greater sage-grouse. Bankers banking on fossil fuels Fossil fuel companies keep digging up coal, oil and gas Continue reading »
When a baby born on April 1, 2023 reached 14 months and became a toddler this month, it had never lived through a month that wasn’t the hottest on record. The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Agency has announced that May 2024 was the hottest May on record. But even more worrisome, it was the 14th consecutive hottest Continue reading »
Bottled water is not good for the environment or your health. If you eat meat, eating less is good for both. Governments are unreliable protectors of forests and human rights (but you knew that already). Bottled water, an unnecessary luxury The global market for bottled water has expanded enormously in recent decades – 73% in Continue reading »
We take nature and biodiversity for granted. Nonhuman life is like a backdrop — we don’t pay much attention to it. This is a mistake. Nature provides all our needs and wants. It provides resources, services, and economic, mental, and physical benefits vital for human survival. Protecting the natural world is an investment in our Continue reading »
Ever since the Leader of the Opposition’s statements on nuclear reactors, along with many, my heart has ached. It’s not personal. It’s just that the climate is changing so quickly and we must cooperate better. As it happens, in the days after I met again a friend and fine theologian, Graeme Garratt. He and his Continue reading »
The world has made up its mind on the move to renewables. All you have to do is listen to the markets, look at what global capital is doing and ask businesses here in Australia. A new fissure has emerged in Australia’s political landscape with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton casting doubt on the LNP bringing Continue reading »
It feels like Groundhog day: Another coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, another meeting of the World Heritage Committee to examine Australia’s progress to safeguard our World Heritage-listed icon. UNESCO has urged Australia “to set more ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global temperature to 1.5°C”. It has expressed “high concern that Continue reading »
Peter Dutton is a charlatan – an inveterate climate change denialist. A denialist now seeking to camouflage his long held denialism in an industrial fantasy – resort to the most dangerous and expensive energy source on the face of the earth – nuclear power. In advocating this, Dutton continues his party’s manic denialism, first articulated Continue reading »