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Category: Commentary

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

Clarifying ‘climate’ – and what we do about it

7 September 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

How is the understanding of ‘climate’ being clarified by various climate groups and advocates? – and what are climate campaigners suggesting we should do about it?

Open blogpost

Uprising, resistance, rebellion, and system change calls

24 August 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

The era of global boiling on Twitter/X has arrived. Temperatures of anger and frustration are rising.

Open blogpost

Individual actions are critical

19 February 2023 Lily Dempster Commentary

Individual behavior change is critical to prevent 2°C degrees of warming. It’s just as important as top-down political reform, writes Lily Dempster, founder and CEO of the One Small Step app.

Open blogpost

#JustStopOil: If they will not stop new oil and gas projects, we will

25 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

“Now is the time to resist the biggest act of criminality in human history,” say British JustStopOil campaigners as they sabotage petrol stations and block a tunnel under an oil terminal.

Open blogpost

Surfers: End all search and new drilling for fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Petition

Surfers across Australia are opposing a proposed seismic survey for oil and gas in the Bass Strait, covering an area of pristine ocean larger than Tasmania, because of the danger to marine life.

Open blogpost

Gaslighting Geelong: accusations of betrayal

5 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

Local community groups are outraged that GeelongPort has entered into a commercial agreement with Viva Energy to extend Refinery Pier for a proposed gas import terminal

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • TUNING IN TO EARTH DAY at The Pulse
  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
  • POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 
  • TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot
  • BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice
  • When the emergency becomes our new reality
  • Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth

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