The Coalition’s worship of fossil fuels and inept policymaking are leaving Australia defenceless against its greatest threat: climate change.
Category: Climate
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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.
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Political attacks on climate cases undermine the rule of law
The courts are an intrinsic part of Australian democracy, despite attacks from conservative critics, write Isabelle Reinecke and Oliver Ray.
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Charities muzzled when climate action advocacy is most needed
Blocking charities from lobbying on “political” issues such as climate change is a blow to a liberal democracy and to our children’s futures.
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Sunday environmental round up.
On land and sea, humans need to do a better job protecting the environment … and our rights to enjoy healthy environments.
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Why Australia’s electric vehicle strategy is going nowhere
The soaring cost of raw materials for batteries and production challenges mean rising prices will push electric vehicles out of the reach of most Australians for many years. (more…)
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Australia’s bare-minimum emissions plan rates zero all-round
Australia’s net zero plan is a techno-optimist thought-bubble: it has an inappropriate objective, no clear priorities, and no realistic costing. (more…)
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Climate emergency: Australia must come in from the cold
As the consequences of global warming worsen, countries that are laggards on climate action risk facing sanctions or bullying from powerful nations. (more…)
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‘Can do capitalism’: An outdated, selfish narrative
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting ‘can do capitalism’, when what Australia needs is policies that treat all citizens equally.
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The endless civil war among conservatives over nuclear power
The case for nuclear power in Australia is overwhelmingly weak, but that doesn’t deter the culture warriors in the Morrison government or the Murdoch media.
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Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and phasing down coal
After a succession of drafts, the climate pact trod a delicate path. There was greenwashing and subversion, triumphs and laments … and “lifestyle”. (more…)
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Sunday environmental round up.
COP26 is finished but are we any closer to reducing emissions? Global temperatures rising and supplies of fresh water falling.
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The climate bottom line: rich nations must step up
Financing lies at the heart of the rupture between wealthy and poor nations on climate: a levy-based framework to provide funding is now crucial.