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Tag: climatic clippings

Global Rescue Plan A flopped. Now what? Enter Plan P

4 December 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

[ Climatic clippings no 9 in 2018 ]  2018 was the year when words of emergency, breakdown, collapse and extinction started ringing in our ears with more disturbing clarity than ever before, but even so, the destruction of our climate continued

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Climate emergency: from unmentionable to mainstream

15 November 2018 Mik Aidt World affairs

[ Climatic clippings no 8 in 2018 ] 100 years from now, our descendants will look back on our choices in this era as no less serious than the choices made during WWI. Simply: We have the choice to preserve civilization

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Warming stripes and climate grief

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those

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Turning a notch on the climatic apocalypse beat

19 August 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

In August 2018, a global heat shock wave saw media turn a notch on the climate change apocalypse beat [Climatic clippings post no 6 in 2018] Some of you will think you are too busy to pay attention to this.

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Waking up in Death Valley to hottest month ever recorded

6 August 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Climatic clippings of July-August 2018 Death Valley in California has just set a scary record for “hottest month ever recorded on our planet”. The last months have brought massive wildfires and record numbers dying from heat stress. But here is something

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Climatic clippings increasingly ‘crimatic’: critical, criminal and dramatic

21 July 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

$2 billion have been spent on creating that spin of lies and disinformation that keeps the fossil wheels turning today, just in the United States alone, according to a new study. So one wonders what the total global figure could

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Climate policy procrastination’s 30 year anniversary

6 July 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

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

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Why we don’t have time

4 June 2018 Mik Aidt Educational

“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

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Greed and climate crimes in the age of the unprecedented

5 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational

“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

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Carbon rebellion leads to community rebuilding

26 April 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

As an individual with a conscience, today’s planetary and political reality leaves you with few choices. Some sign out completely. Others join the new community-lead carbon rebellion. Here’s why I advocate for the latter. A clean conscience. A lifestyle that

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