If you had a political party that represented farmers’ interests, you might have a voice in Canberra. Unfortunately, there’s the supposedly free market party, the party of coal and gas interests and a party that’s been in opposition for the better half of a decade. Better get out and service that CFA or RFS truck, Peter.
Phew, the planet might start to heal with this first step. We do wish the US public well and trust that they can heal too. What does it say though that nearly half think Trump is worthy of their support? Healing will not be easy.https://www.miragenews.com/joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-cinch-win-climate-group-responds/
Giving extra powers to Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor is a dodgy idea, he has trouble managing the power he has now. He is involved in many questionable deals, from water purchases, …
Hmmm, we are ok when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. So there, fossil fools!https://reneweconomy.com.au/neoen-tesla-win-contract-to-build-australias-biggest-battery-in-victoria-87327/
When the conservatives triumph in Australia’s elections, we progressives talk of moving to the Long White Cloud. If Trump were to win, where could all progressives go? Which planet? Can Biden withstand a packed Supreme Court and re-enter the Paris Agreement?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-05/us-formally-exits-paris-climate-change-agreement-trump/12849940
Which bit of this is too hard for Eric Abetz to understand?Fwd: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6991896/we-are-all-being-duped-but…
Here’s a case where positive is a very bad thing. When the response to a stimulus is an even bigger response, how long before that positive feedback brings us to the tipping point? Methane release from melting permafrost, decreased albedo from loss of ice, decreases in soil carbon storage and refusal to control carbon emissions are rushing us there.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102072915.htm
To the conservatives cry of ‘but how much will it cost to act’ comes the rapidly being quantified response ‘and how much will it cost if we don’t’. Not only that, look at the benefits that that coven of lefties (not!) Deloitte Access Economics reckons we’ll be missing.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-02/australian-economy-lose-$3-trillion-climate-change-inaction/12837244
It’s pretty daunting to read about the grief, all self-inflicted, facing humankind no matter how well-described. Tom Griffiths essay in Fire Flood Plague, edited by Sophie Cunningham, lays out much of what we know but about which we are doing little.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/01/born-in-the-ice-age-humankind-now-faces-the-age-of-fire-and-australia-is-on-the-frontline