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Category: Commentary

Our approach to climate and reef campaigning is a dead parrot

30 May 2016 Philip Sutton Australian matters, Commentary One comment

“The approach to climate and ecosystem protection campaigning that has been used for the last 40 years is out of date. We cannot keep accusing the Coalition parties and Labor of climate and environmental hypocrisy, when our own demands and policies bear no practical relationship to what we say we care

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What can we do with the reefs’ death spiral? Start with the ethics!

18 May 2016 Philip Sutton Commentary

The state of the reefs presents the climate action movement with a some very difficult issues that I think we will need to face up to urgently. The most serious Great Barrier Reef bleaching events have been 1998, 2002 and 2016. The intervals between these events were: 4 years and

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The case of civil disobedience: Meet the friendly ‘eco-fascists’ in the Pilliga

14 March 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

The Sustainable Hour visits the Pilliga forest in New South Wales where a group of activists are protesting against the company Santos which wants to extract gas there with the use of the controversial ‘fracking’ method. Whether we should allow that our air and water is being polluted, and that

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In a Danish cyclist’s perspective: What is wrong in Geelong

23 January 2016 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Listen to Bethany, Heather and Maria in The Bicycle Show on 14 November 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse as they interview Mik Aidt, 53 – a cycling Viking, or an exiled ‘Biking’, as he moved from Copenhagen to Geelong, Australia in 2013. He talks about the new findings and figures

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Climate misinformation thrives in Australian media

20 January 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary One comment

Climate misinformation thrives in Australian media. The Australian Press Council has a stake in this. Along with other regulators and authorities, the Press Council fails to understand that the fatal climate crisis caused by an ongoing build-up in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is an unprecedented, wicked economic and political

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The Solar Buskers: clear and right

24 October 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary

Check out Alex’s and Matt’s new solar-rap! It’s a ‘busker song’ to raise money to get solar panels up on their school’s roof to have the sun finance new sustainability education programs at the school in the next 20 years. If you’d like to chip in, with a dollar or

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We were being lied to. Victorians still are

11 October 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Today in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about air pollution and cheating with air quality measurements. Outraged by the recent Volkswagen and Exxon scandals, we take a look at local examples of scandalous emissions fraud and mismanagement which takes place – or has taken place – here

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Crunch time: Modern technology meets Australia’s ‘amazing’ coal

11 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

“The refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe gives us a sobering glimpse of what a less stable world looks like.” OurVoices.net In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 September 2015 we listen to excerpts from inspirational climate change speeches held during the last week by

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Yet another exploration licence for coal? It feels like betrayal

7 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary 2 comments

 Update on 7 September 2015:    Response from Lily D’Ambrosio MP  22 June 2015 Dear Daniel Andrews, Premier, and Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy and Resources, I am vigorously supporting a recent letter to you from Mik Aidt (Geelong) reproduced and slightly edited below – with some additional points following.

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“Good for the economy” not a valid argument

11 August 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

Sometimes progress is to say NO to something which is wrong. In the 19th century, a good part of the American and European economies were built on slavery. It was painful and horrendous to the slaves, but it was “good for the economy”. 150 years ago, slavery represented a sixth

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