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“There is no space left on Earth for egoism.” ~ Naoko Ishii, environmental policy expert from Japan It can’t be said more clearly. This TED-conference presentation by Naoko Ishii – a Japanese environmental policy expert who leads the Global Environment Facility, a public financial institution that provides around US$1 billion
Cheers: Climate policy procrastination can now celebrate its 30 year anniversary in Australia and the United States. Consequently is should be no surprise that we are now beginning to see statements such as these from the scientific community: “At this point, we are into damage control” “The clock has run
Some big, scary news about the climate emergency is coming at us on a daily basis – but there is tonnes of good news to take notice of as well. Such as when the news ticked in from Montgomery County Council in Maryland, USA, that it has declared a climate
Pulling CO2 out of the air. Drawdown. Carbon removal. Carbon capture. Negative emissions. Sequestering carbon. This child has many names. Some see it as ‘the climate change cure’, while others say it is but a cloudy distraction designed to move focus away from the fact that we need to wean
The fossil fools in the Australian government can wave their lumps of coal in the parliamentarian chambers as much as they like. It won’t change a thing. Clean energy is moving in and taking over, simply because it is cheaper and better for all. The clean energy revolution is happening.
“Oil drives you crazy. Oil corrupts politics. Oil buys politicians.” ~ Jeffrey D. Sachs, American economist and director of The Earth Institute We Don’t Have Time trailer. More info below “This is the most dramatic story the human family has ever faced. It doesn’t even make the headlines.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin, American
“The committee notes the consensus from the evidence that climate change is exacerbating threats and risks to Australia’s national security. These include sea level rise, bushfires, droughts, extreme rainfall events, and higher-intensity cyclones.” ~ Quote from Chapter 6, ‘Conclusions and recommendations’, on page 99 in the Senate inquiry report ‘Implications
It’s all happening. Local residents are coming together, talking together, working together, creating solutions, building community resilience. Making it happen. We are getting off carbon. The decarboniser movement is spreading and morphing fast. It has different names, techniques, recipes and approaches. There’s the urban farmers. The organic neo-peasants. The permaculture
“Time for plain speaking. Let’s call a spade a spade and a climate criminal a climate criminal.” ~ David Harris It's rising and accelerating pic.twitter.com/K0wwq7bMfr — Kevin Pluck (@kevpluck) May 4, 2018 The last five years, I’ve been talking and thinking quite a bit about climate change and about how
“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.” ~ Al Gore, former American Vice-President It turns out that people in general prefer investing their