Tag: climateChange
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We are living in the find out times.
A long, dark, important read. Find out. * Find out refers to the saying: Fuck around, and find out.
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Rethinking China?
Your recommended listen for this week. I think it’s healthy to explore alternative narratives. Ideas and ways of thinking that are outside our confirmation biases and reality bubbles. I have always had a set opinion on China, where it stands on the political spectrum and why it poses a threat to the ‘global north’. In…
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This deranged age.
When I was in High School there was a popular educational TV science show called ‘Why Is It So?” that was hosted by Professor Julius Sumner Miller (here is a clip from the show). I remember in one episode he asked his panel of smartypants students why it was NOT possible to have a universal…
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This *might* be the last thing I have to say about climate change.
Here is what I think. We shall not speak of this again.
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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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