Month: September 2023

There’s a long and strong tradition of doing dumb stuff, and this would have to be among the most dumb. Doing an uncontrolled irreversible experiment on the one planet that we have just so a bunch or rapacious fossil fools can keep wrecking the joint is stupid in the extreme. But hey, these spoilsports are only scientists and expert in their fields. What would they know?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/experts-call-for-global-moratorium-on-efforts-to-geoengineer-climate

If Jared Diamond was to do a second edition of his fascinating book ‘Collapse’, it would not just describe the often-wilful damage to the environment that doomed specific civilisations, it …

The sleight of hand continues, with a new acronym, DAC – direct air capture. This is yet another attempt to allow CO2 emissions to continue unabated. If this world’s biggest …

Is there no end to the perfidy of these coal companies? Not only they selling a planet-damaging product, they are telling porkies to sell it. https://michaelwest.com.au/korean-buyers-poised-to-sue-over-fake-coal-quality-scam-glencore-peabody-anglo-terracom-macquarie-in-cross-hairs/ From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au&gt;Date: …

Off-list, and here in this 10 minute clip, George Monbiot nails it on why our politics is in such a parlours state. It’s obvious when you think of it and …

How is it that this gaggle of yokels and troglodytes can have such influence on energy policy? What is in that Coalition Agreement? Malcolm Turnbull was too weak to call …

It’s a poor state of affairs when the best thing we extremely maladapted baby-boomers can do for the earth is to leave it. We are too invested in Business As Usual and the hope is that the Greta Thunberg generation, which is increasingly frustrated with our lack of meaningful response, is not prepared to cop it anymore and is ramping up the campaign of resistance.https://johnmenadue.com/act-or-die-the-climate-nuclear-juggernaut/

Emissions from fossil fuels are the problem, says the guy who heads a fossil fuel company and who is, coincidentally, chairing the annual global climate change conference that explores the damage fossil fuels cause. In other news, it is reported that satire is dead.https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/09/05/cop28-president-world-losing-race-climate-goals/

An individual’s actions in changing a light bulb or two is as nothing compared to the actions of an individual financier who recommends funding for a fossil fuel or industrial agriculture project. This is not to say that individuals shouldn’t change light bulbs, but their actions should include active protest against the financiers.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/banks-pour-trillions-fossil-fuel-expansion-global-south-report-says

Off list and almost off topic, and this is important. The analysis of our breadth of predicaments is worth the read In the new order where ‘facts’ are contested, can …