Environment: Australians must defend our right to protest
Dissent and protest are under attack across Australia. Thawing permafrost is a problem for everyone, not just Arctic-dwellers. LNG produces more emissions than coal, oil or gaseous natural gas. Renewables rollouts are up, but so are energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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21 May 2025
Australia’s opportunity to lead the world on human survival
Now that the Australian election is settled, and the government has a handsome working majority, it is surely the moment for voters nationwide to engage actively with elected representatives to set a world-changing agenda in place.
17 May 2025
Water is a vital part of population policy
If ecological sustainability must be the basis for population policy, as argued by Jenny Goldie, then a vital ingredient for sustainability is water – the essence of life.
23 April 2025
Surreptitious Victorian native forest logging
The Victorian Government claims that it exited native forest logging in 2024. However, it has not legislated this exit. And, notably, logging is continuing through other nefarious and highly cynical means.
14 April 2025
There is no future without children
Imagine a world without children, a world steadily depopulating like that in the dystopian novel by P.D. James, Children of Men.
13 April 2025
Environment: Adopt a tapeworm. Love your lice. Give a leech lunch
Parasites need our help, not our disgust. Electricity usage increases with the temperature, but the price falls as renewables increase. Cyanobacteria’s sliding door moment.
9 April 2025
Can our human species be rescued?
Our own human species is in grave danger of becoming extinct in the not-too-distant future, and there is no systemic global effort underway to minimise this threat. A series of “existential threats” have been highlighted by many scientists.
31 March 2025
Delete the Earth
Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humanity arose is being deleted. Eventually, what remains will be unfit for the survival of either humans or large animals.
11 March 2025
Noicide: advent of a new Dark Age
Something far more sinister than mere genocide is unfolding in the United States and other advanced nations around the world: the forces of darkness have declared open war on human knowledge.
12 February 2025
Here comes the human tsunami...
This year, more than 400 million people are in search of new homes, of food, water and family security.
9 February 2025
Environment: Australia unlikely to play its proper part in keeping warming under 1.5°C
Will Australia’s Paris Agreement emissions reduction target for 2035 be consistent with a 1.5oC-world? The US wants a fossil fuel future; China wants renewables. Whatever … coal consumption is still rising.
7 February 2025
The situation – and why we can’t fix it
Many are drawing attention to the alarming state of things. Within Pearls and Irritations, David Spratt and Julian Cribb have recently provided clear and powerful summary statements of the trajectory we're on, heading towards catastrophic global ecological and social breakdown. But they proceed as if the problems could be solved. They’re wrong about that.
30 January 2025
Lies, damned lies and catastrophic risks
For the second year running, lies have emerged as the primary risk facing humanity, in the Global Risks Survey 2024-25 conducted by the World Economic Forum of 900 experts worldwide.
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