The Australian Conservation Foundation has long enjoyed the contributions to their work of volunteer Maelor Himbury. I’ve long enjoyed one of his contributions – the daily compilation from the nation’s media of articles featuring the environment, conservation and climate change. Each weekday I receive Maelor’s list of articles, I scan the list and make an editorial comment on one that takes my fancy. Yes, I know, quite self-indulgent but it makes me look carefully through the daily offerings. I then send it on to the 40 or 50 people who have indicated that they wish to receive it. In turn, a number of them then pass the list on to people that they know. I’m never sure that Maelor knows just how many people appreciate his work – but I certainly do.
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I’ve gone off-list with this one. This article in the Guardian re climate action as the antithesis of white supremacy is worth the read.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/why-youll-never-meet-a-white-supremacist-who-cares-about-climate-change
ISO 14008 counts the cost of environmental damage. ‘Few things yield such an impact as these type of heavyweight, international standards’. And gradually the pieces are being assembled!https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318111950.htm
The concept of a Gross National Happiness index, let alone an efficiency or sustainability economy rather than a growth economy is barely on the horizon. But the RBA sounds the alarm, wow!, this is a thing.https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/mar/17/the-rba-has-sounded-the-climate-change-alarm-time-to-sit-up-and-take-notice
Dwelling on the bleak can be a bit wearing, I find, so occasionally there’s a place for something completely different. The Canberra Times article ‘Beware of adulterers and delivery drones’ is something completely different and it nearly lives up to the promise of the title.https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/beware-of-adulterers-and-delivery-drones-20190315-p514fw.html
‘How climate change will affect your mortgage’ is not the most honest of headlines when you read the article for it points out that it is much more than your mortgage that will be affected. And it’s the Reserve Bank saying it. From the top end of town to kids marching in towns, the times they are a changin’.https://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/how-climate-change-will-affect-your-mortgage-20190315-p514hs.html
Re the student strike ‘No other way …. ‘, it was not so long ago that the government was funding Civics and Citizenship Education. This is just the prac session. All power to their active learning!https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/no-other-way-student-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-s-strike-call-20190313-p513x9.html
Nuclear energy proponents try to pull the wool over our eyes with ‘nuclear is a clean fuel’. Re carbon emissions, this might be the case but tens of thousands of years of land contaminated by nuclear waste isn’t what I understand by the word ‘clean’.https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/after-fukushima-nuclear-powers-deepening-crisis,12459
Now it might seem that I bang on about this incessantly, but I reckon that an uncontrolled experiment on the only world we have is a big deal. That geoengineering has the ‘possibility’ of success in drawing down CO2 does not inspire me with confidence. Bite the bullet and decarbonise -now!https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/11/solar-geoengineering-climate-change-new-study
With Michael McCormack’s claim that renewables will kill night sport, have we reached peak stupid or do the Gnats still have more to give?https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nats-leader-links-emissions-to-night-footy
Day of Awesomeness indeed! Pay at the checkout – ‘thanks that’s awesome’, order a coffee – ‘wow, that’s awesome’, get up in the morning – ‘hey, that’s awesome’. Our language is debased with this misuse of what should be a rarely used word with a quite specific meaning, unless of course you live in a state of grand wonder. Now, back to wallowing in my old-man grumpiness!