Tag: climateChange
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The growing up we need to do.
Let’s treat the land we live on well: it was not given to us by our fathers, but it was lent to us by our children. —Masai proverb Be it crack on mark… or one rabbit hole too far I will leave up to you to judge, but my belief is that all this talk…
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Where the frack is the snow?
Until our governments acknowledge that we are already in the deep-diarrhoea end of the climate change pool, and that this is an all of planet problem requiring brave, bold and politically unpalatable responses (no ifs, ands, or buts), we are destined for drowning. Instead, it seems we remain reliant on a cheap set of colourful…
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Another day, another abandoned building.
Out for a walk this morning I happened upon an old building in the centre of Canberra that looks like it is straight out of a Batman movie. A plaque on the wall identified it as “Department of climate change, energy, the environment and water” (as if these were 4 seperate things). In a stroke…
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Earth at risk.
The abstract from this paper, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) sums up our current situation with clarity. Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequality. This review synthesizes the breadth of these interwoven emergencies and underscores the…
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