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Getting Real About the Environment, Pt.2
Originally posted here. “Invasive Species” is a strange concept This is a bitter point for me, as it was a dislike for olives and fennel throughout the remnant vegetation of South Australia which drew me to time at university. In many ways I’ve since been brought around by 180o. Firstly, as far as I can … Continue reading
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Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic
Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden
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One of the neglected aspects of the “climate debate” is our own personal reflections, fears and hopes about the future. Many of us concerned with climate change have had to cope with some quite profound existential fears. So I’ve decided to explore the issue from a very personal and human level over the next few … Continue reading
Making the news these past few days is the both gloomy and frightening announcement by the International Energy Agency. Last year saw a record volume of greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere, almost guaranteeing that global temperatures will pass “safe limits”: Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon … Continue reading
“Australia’s population is so insignificant,” he hurls at me over his beer, “that if we were to reach carbon neutral the effect on global warming would be only a fraction of a degree! Why the hell should we ruin our economy for that?” The particular slant of his smirk tells me that he thinks he … Continue reading
Few would have believed in the last decades of the twentieth century that this world was being ever increasingly warmed, slowly but surely by forces greater than man’s and yet more subtle than his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were assisting and fuelling change, perhaps almost as narrowly as … Continue reading
