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Category: Commentary

#ExtinctionRebellion: This is what democracy looks like

8 October 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, World affairs

7 October 2019 marked the beginning of the Global Rebellion. A video report from the streets of Melbourne

Open blogpost

This is a job for humanity – of which you and we all happen to be a part

14 September 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

MESSAGE TO COUNCILLORS: Leadership, responsibility, integrity The three key words in the discussion about whether or not Geelong Council should declare a climate emergency are: leadership, responsibility and integrity. Former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson put it this way – about the similar discussion which is currently taking place in

Open blogpost
Mik Aidt

Mik’s debut as a youtuber: The ‘Show me how’ series

13 September 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Mik has picked up the video camera on his phone to start ‘youtubing’ about people in his city who are reducing their ecological footprint

Open blogpost

Juggling with the ‘It’s-already-too-late’ syndrome

2 July 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, World affairs

“I have had a big blue fear since I heard in a speech that for Planet Earth, it was too late. I felt collapsed for 15 seconds.”~ Brice Pascal Abbey In an era of global ecological destruction, climate change is increasing individual and societal anxiety, depression, existential dread and solastalgia.

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Woman with a potentially explosive idea

23 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

The new Icelandic film ‘Woman at War’ creatively tells the story about what could begin to happen in real life: ‘resistance groups’ sabotaging polluting infrastructure and products.

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Cooperate as never before to radically reorganise

19 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary One comment

Thoughts, reflections and observations on Saturday’s – from a climate activists’ perspective shocking and sad – election result in Australia, where once again a hollow promise of “a strong economy” and the right to pollute our common atmosphere and destroy our kids’ future won over the promise of climate action

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The Australian #ClimateElection

8 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational One comment

“If you’ve been keeping your powder dry, waiting for the moment when the climate fight really needed you–right about now would be that moment.”

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Ten minutes a day keeps a crisis away

7 May 2019 Maya Bjerrum Trinkjær Commentary

I’ve become fond of numbers. I realised how clearly numbers speak. Every day, I am confronted with numbers in all sorts of possible and impossible sizes – numbers that at the same time speak to all sorts of possible and impossible emotions. But with all the exotic numbers roaming around in this world, I recommend that we remember the

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Australia’s Labor party still immersed in gas and coal

1 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

The problem with Labor’s support for climate action is that it is either fake, hollow or misguided. We need to call out those politicians who think they can sign a climate emergency declaration and then spruik fossil fuels. Peter Khalil, a federal election candidate for the Labor party in Wills,

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Earth anthem for a youth movement

26 April 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

You may like or hate this song, but it has all the features of what any new ‘We Are The World’-song should contain

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Recent Posts

  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
  • DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
  • From backyard trees to community oil – the story of the Barwon Oil Barons
  • From climate emergency to festival of life
  • RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • 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
  • FORCE OF LIFE: 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

Recent Comments

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  • Alice on Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • Wadzy on FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
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