WHAT we consider to be the ‘right’ sort of environmental protection is necessarily going to be influenced by our understanding of nature. According to Harald Kehl, the modern environmentalist either subscribes to a dualistic-anthropocentric … [Read more...] about Defining the Greens (Part 3)
Archives for April 2009
Slovenia has Most Brown Bears in Europe
In recent years bears have been moving closer to villages and cities in search of food as the bear population has been rising. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Slovenia has Most Brown Bears in Europe
On a Tortuous Political Problem: Bob Carter
LAST Wednesday, I had the privilege of appearing in front of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy. My main advice to the committee was that making a decision regarding an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) must be considered as a … [Read more...] about On a Tortuous Political Problem: Bob Carter
Scepticism Increasing Under Obama
Public hostility toward George Bush and the Republicans likely expressed itself in part as hostility toward global warming scepticism, with which Bush and the Republicans were identified. As soon as the Republicans lost power, many in the public lost … [Read more...] about Scepticism Increasing Under Obama
Launch of Book by Well Known Sceptic: Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer
The book entitled 'Heaven And Earth' by one of Australia's foremost Earth scientists and outspoken climate change sceptic, Professor Ian Plimer, is "brilliantly argued". At least that's according to Paul Sheehan writing in the Sydney Morning … [Read more...] about Launch of Book by Well Known Sceptic: Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer
Wise Men Excluded from Bushfire Royal Commission
WE were all appalled by the death and destruction that was the Victorian bushfires early this year. On Black Saturday nearly 200 people died. The number of koalas incinerated probably runs into the thousands, the number of native birds dead in the … [Read more...] about Wise Men Excluded from Bushfire Royal Commission
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
