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)
Defining the Greens (Part 2)
WHILE it may be true to say that "We are all environmentalists now", the great majority of Australians have little or no say in the environmental policies being put to governments – federal, state or local. These policies are almost exclusively the … [Read more...] about Defining the Greens (Part 2)
Defining ‘The Greens’ (Part 1)
According to George Megalogenis writing in the Weekend Australian neither the “right” nor the “left” in Australia can now win power without the support of the Greens. But what exactly do the Greens stand for? I recently suggested there are … [Read more...] about Defining ‘The Greens’ (Part 1)
Defining the Scientific Sceptics (Part 9): John Izzard
IF you are going to set up a new cult, which is what the emissions trading bill [currently before the Australian Senate] is all about, you really have to get in quickly and corner all of the best descriptive and emotive words; seize the moral high … [Read more...] about Defining the Scientific Sceptics (Part 9): John Izzard
Defining the Sceptics (Part 4)
“GROWING up as your daughter, you have always taught me to live with an open mind, and to seek out facts before I choose a side of the fence whether it be agreeing or disagreeing with your own.” This comment from Caroline Marohasy represents to me … [Read more...] about Defining the Sceptics (Part 4)