Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. (more…)
Category: Climate
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Environment: Destroying wetlands increases methane emissions
We’re destroying wetlands and their methane is killing us. Big Oil can’t be trusted but nor can the EU’s climate commitments. Boomers leave their great grandkids a tenth of what they enjoyed.
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How many refugees will drown at Bhasan Char in Bangladesh?
Over 20,000 Rohingya refugees have been recently moved to Bhasan Char, and are at risk of drowning. (more…)
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Sunday environmental round up
Electric cars sales are booming but so are coal’s, strongly supported by the banks. The Kyoto and Pari agreements fail to keep tabs on military forces’ greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sunday environmental round-up
Greenhouse gases explain the science of climate change but money, greed and deception explain our failure to tackle it.
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Population decline isn’t happening fast enough to save planet
By 2050 we will consume three earths per year. Degradation of land and the oceans, biodiversity loss and global warming are the direct results.
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Morrison pins his hopes on the complacency or ignorance of voters
We’re facing a climate calamity, yet the PM believes Australians are more focused on the next holiday than threats to their children’s future. (more…)
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Sunday environmental round up.
Tackling the challenges of feeding 10 billion people, keeping our cities cool and meeting the increasing demand for batteries without destroying the environment.
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The Climate Council misses the mark on agriculture’s true impact
Much of the council’s reporting on the greenhouse gas emissions of agriculture is invalid or misleading and underplays the damaging effects of methane.
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Jobs and decarbonisation: how Australia should manage the transition
The move away from fossil fuels will be felt unevenly across Australia: the communities most exposed to these changes must lead our response.
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Climate catastrophe now inevitable without emergency action
By relying on consultants for policymaking, the government avoids making any serious contribution to the global effort to minimise temperature rise.
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Morrison’s ‘Australian Way’ climate plan is criminally irresponsible
The Coalition’s worship of fossil fuels and inept policymaking are leaving Australia defenceless against its greatest threat: climate change.
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Biggest barrier to saving the Reef is a political class in climate denial
The Morrison government is actively supporting new coal mines and massive new gas developments that will overwhelm all other efforts.
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Bad capitalists: Australia’s corporate welfare betrays the system
There are good capitalists out there — but those in the Australian government propping up failing industries are not among them.
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Sunday environmental round up.
To limit global warming we must stop producing and burning fossil fuels. But nations’ and companies’ plans don’t match their grand pledges and rhetoric. Nor with deforestation.
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Our obsession with economic growth will destroy us
Capitalist societies refuse to recognise there are limits to growth, resulting in inequality and ecological destruction — it will lead to collapse.
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‘Let it rip’ mentality underlies Australia’s cruelest policy failures
Australia’s Covid ‘let it rip’ mentality is deeply ingrained in the nation’s past and, through climate and environmental inaction, is driving a larger peril.
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The threat of nuclear winter hangs over our warming planet
Even a limited nuclear war would inject enough smoke and dust into the atmosphere to threaten the survival of our species. (more…)
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Sunday environmental round up
Four laws of ecology still relevant 50 years on but obscuring the truth more prevalent. Global warming continues and invasive species threaten Australian wildlife.
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Token taxes: the gas industry’s great royalties ripoff
LNG producers insist they bankroll crucial government services — but the royalties they pay are paltry and the jobs they create are relatively few.
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Environment 2022: let’s put the blah blah behind us and demand change
The cheery end-of-year messages from climate activist groups didn’t resonate with me. The reality is that we’ve run out of time for dangerously comforting delusions about our “achievements”. (more…)
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Nature outcomes in 2021: the good, the bad and the sad
Australia’s natural environment won some significant skirmishes in 2021 but serious challenges for biodiversity and ecosystems remain.
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Climate reality: A realistic path to a brighter future
The challenge for this generation of young people is to guide humanity and other life on our planet to a bright future.
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Sunday environmental round up
Most of Earth’s minerals need living organisms to form. Young people recommend consuming less: smartphones, meat and alcohol would be good starts.
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Economic planners do not reckon with climate crisis bearing down on us
The current population of 25 million may be Australia’s limit, unless we are prepared to reduce our lifestyle footprint.
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Fossil fuels: the campaign to force PR agencies to clean up their act
The links between advertising agencies and the oil and gas industry are coming under increasing pressure through name-and-shame tactics.
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Climate of betrayal: fossil fuel subsidies cost $5.9 trillion in 2020
Despite promises of tackling climate change, governments around the world are still allowing new oil, gas and coal mines.
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Sunday environmental round up
Cooee Australia, stop producing fossil fuels and develop credible climate action plans. All nations must preserve ecosystems with ‘irrecoverable carbon’.
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Crash and burn: the deadly climate policies of our major parties
The Coalition and Labor refuse climate action that will ensure humanity’s survival, even as thousands die globally from the burning of fossil fuels.
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Sunday environmental round up.
Coal region residents want economic transition. Plastic becoming a significant producer of CO2. Illegal logging and fishing in Myanmar and Mexico.