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Category: Commentary

In the winds of change, we build windmills – not walls

24 July 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

A Chinese proverb highlights two distinct approaches to change.

Open blogpost

Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

Open blogpost

Embracing balance in the age of melting

4 January 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

As we look into 2024, where humanity faces its greatest challenge ever, let’s carry with us the lessons and successes of the year that went.

Open blogpost

Welcome to 2024: The year of the Teal

3 January 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

How long will we keep fiddling while our homes burn and drown? We have to become the architects of a new story.

Open blogpost

Beyond domestic targets: Urgent need for leadership

2 December 2023 Alan Barlee & Mik Aidt Commentary

Australia’s escalating exports of coal and LNG is a climate wrecking factor which dwarfs our domestic emissions.

Open blogpost

That’s not what COPs are for

30 November 2023 Robert C. Hinkley Commentary, World affairs

COP28 is shaping up as The Predator’s Ball II. That’s not what COPs are for. Their purpose is to find a way to stop the emissions.

Open blogpost

After 9,999 ways that didn’t work: Time to change the law

23 November 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

We can pass a law that would require the management of the big emitters – or all companies – to stop emitting significant quantities of greenhouse gases. Here’s how.

Open blogpost

Tracks of change

15 November 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

An ‘open source’ fiction story about courage, community and change. Plus ChatGPT’s analysis of it.

Open blogpost

Climate Hunger Games – The Australian Way

12 November 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

The many Australian organisations dedicated to combating climate breakdown need to unite now and get behind Gregory Andrews hunger strike and petition.

Open blogpost

Correction: This is not “Mother Nature”

1 November 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

Reporting on one climate-driven tragedy after the other, why is no one in mainstream media willing to state the necessary, “So this is the reason we urgently need to stop the burning of fossil fuels”?

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
  • Rethinking the path to change
  • Cost of the fossil con
  • Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience
  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
  • Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
  • Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark
  • Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures
  • THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Working with nature – not against it
  • Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
  • World court shakes the system: corporate lawyer sees climate breakthrough
  • International court puts Australia in the hot seat
  • Wake up and fight
  • Time to wake up: How fossil fuel money captured democracy and blocked climate action
  • HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? Healing the land with plants and water
  • Crafting climatesafe communities
  • RICHER THAN BEFORE: Building renewable economies
  • Our six pathways to a liveable and climatesafe future
  • First Nations voices rise for treaty, truth and climate healing
  • Because local matters
  • State of the climate in 2025: telling it as it is
  • Cinematic call to reconnect with nature
  • The key of empathy: climate action with kindness and courage
  • Court: If you dig it up, you own the damage
  • Open letter to Viva Energy – about gas, jobs and Geelong’s future
  • Involving citizens in the green transition is key
  • Gas expansion versus people-powered change
  • Business sector to demystify the three letters of ESG
  • Beyond the words: What happens after a climate emergency is declared?

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