Archive for July 27th, 2008
Ecology and Ethics (Part 2)
Posted by jennifer, July 27th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Philosophy
Comments: 19
When a man says “this is good in itself,” he seems to be making a statement, just as much as if he had said “this is square” or “this is sweet.” I believe this to be a mistake. I think that what the man really means is: “I wish everybody to desire this,” or rather [...]
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Anti-environment & Anti-tourism Policy in the Daintree
Posted by neil, July 27th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 8
The ratepayers’ association for the Daintree Cape Tribulation area has called upon the Queensland Government to adopt a new policy for the provision of electricity, which protects the environment to the greatest possible extent and overcomes the contradictions of hundreds of concurrently running engine generators.
In response, Mr. Phil Reeves MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier [...]
Dumped! Real Investigative Australian Television Journalism
Posted by jennifer, July 27th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 13
There is only one mainstream Australian television news program that has made a real attempt to explain the situation along the Murray River and there is only one mainstream Australian television news program that has made a real attempt to present the climate skeptics perspective. I am of course referring to Sunday on [...]
More Comment on Official Complaints Against ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’
Posted by jennifer, July 27th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 24
According to Miranda Devine, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday: “There is something odd about the ferocious amount of energy expended suppressing any dissent from orthodoxy on climate change. After all, the climate cataclysmists have won the war of public opinion – for now, at least – with polls, business, media and Government [...]
Ecology and Ethics (Part 1)
Posted by jennifer, July 27th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Philosophy
Comments: 27
“The study of economics and ecology without an ethical objective, in my mind, is akin to studying medicine not to relieve suffering, but simply for something to do to.”
Tor Hundloe, In From Buddha to Bono, On pg 12.

