Melbourne sweltered last week in ridiculous heat. This we know. There were power issues as demand on the local grid exceeded supply, suburbs blacked out, businesses lost stock, the frail and elderly suffered.
This has turned political. The government should, various parties argue, have been able to guarantee supply. All very well. I’d suggest another role [...]
Tag Archives: Climate-change
If you can’t take the heat, turn off the aircon
February 2, 2009 – 5:01 pm
Wall St, madmen and martinis
October 1, 2008 – 2:51 pm
I’m trying not to think about it. About Wall St, and profligacy, and just how big $700 billion might be, and the leveraging of greed into something so consuming. It’s depressing, as is the prospect of calibrating a global response to climate shift disaster against this sort of thinking. It’s otherworldy, disconnected. This distant implosion [...]
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