Month: August 2025

The biochemistry of photosynthesis is inescapable, to fix molecules of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons such as cellulose and lignin, an equivalent amount of water is needed. So, agriculture, water-dependent species, …

Monbiot nails it. “Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable”. The fossil fools will do everything to continue their high profitability, even …

Placing natural capital accounting outside of our  processes for economic and productivity measurement results in what Ken Henry describes as ‘intergenerational bastardry’. There are so many consequences when the inextricability …

While Chris Bowen and Murray Watt wax triumphant about the glorious ALP government’s net-zero policies and the Beetrooter, Matteo Canavani and the other troglodytes of the Nats lurch backwards to …

Black Jack McEwen, Doug Anthony, Ian Sinclair and Tim Fischer were fearless advocates for their farmer members and for agrarian socialism. And they were pragmatists who understood what was needed …

We really have very little idea of how far-reaching human impacts are on the natural world. From microplastics in Antarctica, ocean-harvesting krill by the megatonnes, light pollution consequences for turtle …

We cling to any little glimmer of hope that we can find. Emissions in China have reduced and the share of energy generated there by renewable sources is increasing so …

It is pretty clear that the wheels have fallen off the global commitment to reduce carbon emissions. Trump has killed any momentum that might have been, countries, including Australia, are …

You’re not wrong, Peter Boyer, too many of us believe that clear, demonstrated, proven facts are the basis on which responsive governments make decisions. Turns out they are indeed responsive, …