The key take-away is that humanity is still mainlining fossil fuels. And the adaptation fund? Remember, ‘the cheque’s in the mail’ is one of the great lies. https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/key-takeaways-cop27-climate-summit-egypt-2022-11-20/ From: Maelor …
Off-list but this article is significant in its implications for our politics. After Moira Deeming and Renee Heath comes Timothy Dragan. The Victorian Liberal Party is being taken over by …
While Chris Bowen at COP27 basks in the adulation of other countries, those in Australia with local knowledge of Ministerial colleague Madl’n’ King’s support for new gas projects would say that it’s far too early for relaxation.
It looks like we can all relax and the fossil fools can keep doing what they do. The earth and its climate will self-stabilise. It’s just a pity that the …
It might be too early to declare that populism has had its day (note: Italy and Israel), but banishing the LNP here, the US mid-terms and Lula’s return are welcome …
We simply have to arrive at the destination, decarbonisation, even while there are many arguments about which path to take to get there. The need for arrival, and soon, is becoming so desperate that I reckon it is difficult to condemn those taking extreme paths.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/15/suffragette-grandmothers-heroes-climate-protesters-activists-traffic
To save the planet we need to damage it even more? To save the village we had to bomb it. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. No, geoengineering is not …
The Latrobe Valley Authority was established to oversee the transition away from coal, which as everyone knows is on its way out. There’s quite a focus on new energy, local manufacturing and social development in the projects they are managing. It is easier to criticise than analyse but this is indicative of the direction taken by The Age in the last year or so, coincident with Nine Entertainment, chaired by Peter Costello, buying the paper. Coincident? Hmmm.https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/morwell-at-the-heart-of-country-s-existential-crisis-and-labor-party-s-identity-crisis-20221026-p5bt81.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
Government writes the rules for protection of old growth forests and then VicForests goes and breaks them – seemingly with impunity. An example in this article refers to a logging coupe named ‘Duped’. Is this VicForests rubbing our noses in their buccaneer behaviour?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-13/our-vanishing-old-growth-forests/101641964
The New Daily is hardly mainstream media, but it does have good journalists and is not under the thumb of democracy’s enemy Rupert Murdoch or chief LNP propagandist and Nine Entertainment Chair Peter Costello. Michael Pascoe looks at what should be the main game, climate change, and how all else is just faffing about.http://news.thenewdaily.com.au/c/11eyRtKgPSfeZMEh8tecXakH2Uu