ALL Greens have a deep passionate desire to make sure we live well without doing serious damage to the environment, but apart from that are a motley lot impossible to accurately define. This is one of the messages that have emerged from my series … [Read more...] about Defining the Greens (Part 4)
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Defining the Greens (Part 3)
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)
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
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
Politician Says Antarctica Melting, But
Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Politician Says Antarctica Melting, But