Daily Links Dec 24
Thank you again Maelor for your excellent service this year. I, and those to whom I pass on your Daily Links, are much in your debt. Daily Links is archived …
Greg Roberts celebrates one of the most beautiful of our birds, sadly one that is no more. This article appeared in a recent Weekend Australian and is on his sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com He has updated his article with further information too.
There’s passing reference to the enigmatic and likely fabulist John Young, claiming yet another rediscovery. Greg Roberts The Weekend Australia, 21-22 December, 2024 Paradise Parrot – lost, found, lost again: …
Daily Links Dec 23
The article from The Chaser is sad and funny simultaneously, the article about the IPA’s book on climate change is beyond sad, Keith Pitt’s resignation from Parliament is about time …
Daily Links Dec 20
Send On 20 Dec 2024, at 10:07 am, greghunt.net Daily Mailer <mailer@greghunt.net> wrote: Just as we were gleaning glimmers of hope in the relentless battle against the forces of environmental darkness, …
Daily Links Dec 20
Just as we were gleaning glimmers of hope in the relentless battle against the forces of environmental darkness, along comes Tanya to give us a whack. Carbon dioxide doesn’t know …
Daily Links Dec 19
You have to find and hold on to the few glimmers of hope you can find – and in the midst of our likely going to climate hell in a hand-basket, there are some if we look carefully. While the increase in brightness of glimmers is generally measured in small degrees, one glimmer that might look left-field is quite some progress in principle, the granting of legal personhood in a few jurisdictions to rivers, mountains, waves and whales. The right to exist can then be balanced in courts of law against the rampant exploitation that underpins capitalism.https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241216-seven-quiet-breakthroughs-for-climate-and-nature-in-2024-you-might-have-missed
Daily Links Dec 18
I recall an article about marketing some time ago that urged success was to be found in selling the ‘sizzle’ rather than the ‘sausage’. Combine this idea with a description …
Daily Links Dec 17
On how many fronts does Dutton’s nuclear fantasy fail? There’s the economic fiddling, the time-line delusion and the location challenges (ie, where is the needed water to be found in …
Daily Links Dec 16
We’re usually pretty loud in our boasts of global leadership around climate change response. Here’s one clear position of leadership that we’ve kept pretty quiet. That the criminalisation of protest …
Daily Links Dec 13
Time was when the Fourth Estate ran positive crusades. Remember the Sun’s ‘Declare war on 1034’ (road deaths in 1969) and the Age ‘Give the Yarra a go’. They are …