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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
What Green Academics Do Instead of Work
Excitement is building at Sydney University as each day brings its 8000 academics and 75,000 students one sleep closer to their two-day climate-crisis spectacular, namely “Nature Feelz (sic) Symposium: Perspectives and Reflections on Ecological Emotions”. The symposium, from December 5-7, is convened by the university’s Dr. Blanche Verlie, Dr. James Dunk, Professor Danielle Celermajer[1], Associate Professor Paul Rhodes and Associate Professor Rosanne Quinnell.
This symposium is part of the university’s massive Ecological Emotions, Feelings and Affects research project.[2] Academics globally can submit symposium papers and talk proposals to Sydney University by July 31. That’s in just a few weeks so, scholars, get your skates on! Your guidelines (emphasis added):
As interconnected biodiversity, climate, water and related socio-ecological crises intensify around the world, experiences of ecological distress are proliferating. Variously termed solastalgia, climate…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
