One of the most significant decisions an Australian federal government has ever made will be made on the basis of the treasury modeling released this week on the impact of the carbon pollution reduction scheme.
Yet many of the assumptions in this modeling are questionable, and I wanted to let you know that beneath the modeling [...]
It is truly a global crisis. Nobody is immune. Not least the corporate executives that are partly to blame for the excesses that have brought the whole system to the precipice. Swift and urgent action is required – tighter regulation and a massive injection of funds to drive job creation. Otherwise the consequences are too [...]
On Monday, Waleed Aly had a superb opinion piece in the SMH which sadly went largely unnoticed. In the piece he argued persuasively that the biggest long-term impacts of major economic crises are the changes to the socio-political terrain that they tend to trigger.
The prime example, of course, is the dramatic shift towards fascism and [...]
One of Australia’s Pioneers of Green Farming Terry McCosker writes:
I have just read through Natalies Williams post and the comments it has stimulated. As an originator of much of the “green” change which is accelerating through rural Australia I am very happy to see the quality of the debate and the similarity of ideas.
I would [...]
While some animals are finding the warming global environment a problem, spiders, apparently, are not. In fact, if this report in the Independent is accurate, it may not be cockroaches who inherit the earth, but British immigrant spiders.
Any arachnophobes should look away now. It has emerged that numerous species of non-indigenous spider, some venomous, are [...]
Do you remember the last time you saw or read something that turned your whole belief system upside down.
I have an absolute treat for you today, thanks to Agmates reader Dr Christine Jones.
Michael Pollan [pictured] is a journalist, author, academic who has written an 8,500 word essay ( don’t fall over) “Farmer In Chief – [...]
Saturday’s Canberra Times ran an interesting piece on climate change, equating the problem of carbon pollution with other self-destructive behaviours like smoking or alcoholism. Canberra writer Tony Kevin opined:
Australian society accommodates similar existential contradictions in its response to climate change. Informed Australians know now that this is really happening, that it is caused by dangerously [...]
I want to follow up on my previous post on the claim from the Australian Industry Group that ‘Emissions trading ‘could cost 1 million jobs’. It’s an even more ridiculous claim than I first thought. I’m not sure whether I’m more angry with Heather Ridout and the AIG, or the journalists that uncritically parroted the [...]
Agmates has stated that the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme will do little to fight climate change. In my opinion the scheme is chiefly designed to give the Rudd Government global green kudos and Australian’s a warm and fuzzy green glow.
Leading British scientist Dr James Lovelock backs up what I and others have been saying. In [...]
I’ve just seen this excellent video that I felt was worth posting. It is from Van Jones talking about his new book, The Green Collar Economy, putting a concise argument for spending half the money that was spent on the Wall St bail-out on delivering an economic and environmental boom.
This is the kind of thing [...]
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