Category Archives: biological resources

After Trump, any climate plan is a relief

Posted on 6 June 2017 by Peter Boyer

Matthew Groom’s “Climate Action 21” is clearly deficient, but it’s all we have. Highly predictable and monumentally dumb: that was the decision by the American president to turn his back on our faltering collective effort to contain greenhouse emissions. Equally … Continue reading →

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The awful truth about our mastery over nature

Posted on 30 May 2017 by Peter Boyer

A new book by Clive Hamilton puts it in a nutshell: we’re screwed but we don’t know it. There is just one bottom line in the climate free-for-all – the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – and this … Continue reading →

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Learning the lessons of Black Tuesday

Posted on 7 February 2017 by Peter Boyer

We have learned a great deal since February 1967, but that doesn’t include how to curb our damaging carbon emissions. This has been as near to perfect a Tasmanian summer as I can imagine. Rain when you need it but … Continue reading →

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