Month: November 2022

“Doing nothing is not an option”, when humanity is, as the head of the UN says, “on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator”. We’ll …

For significant reductions in global emissions, there are two sectors that most need to be phased down. The energy sector is proving to be extremely obdurate while the livestock farming …

Off list with a typically thoughtful article by Ross Gittins, this one on the shortcomings of GDP as a useful measure of human progress.https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/one-small-step-for-wellbeing-budget-a-giant-leap-to-come-20221108-p5bwd3.html

We didn’t think Morrison’s AUKUS agreement was a forestalling of climate refugees heading to our shores. The nuclear subs will easily account for their leaky fishing boats. That bloke, as …

It is almost impossible to remain an optimist. I always thought that when enough people demanded change it would happen. I imagined that the Board members and CEOs had families …

Hmmm, ‘collective action or collective suicide’? Sadly this seems to be a tough decision. The mainstream media is pushing for the latter, given their role in ignoring the seriousness of …

Re the climate summit on now in Egypt, look at all of the articles here about what is needed, what might be promised and what nations still go ahead and …

This is important so we must go slowly. Cane toads loom large in our minds, after all. And having just this morning planted along our infested creek banks Wandering Trad …

Offsett are a fig leaf to cover for business as usual, and that’s granting them a legitimacy they most likely don’t have. Albo cannot get away with it for much …

War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Coca Cola is a good corporate citizen. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/greta-thunberg-coca-cola-and-cop27-why-greenwashing-is-overshadowing-the-un-climate-summit/sq6vv0bjl From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au&gt;Date: 2 November 2022 at 8:48:40 am AEDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Nov 2 …