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Tag: disinformation

Restore a safe climate? First we must restore trust

22 February 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary 2 comments

“The Federal government has been promoting coal, misleading the public on causes of blackouts and electricity rises, and trashing renewable power. They’ve seemingly forgotten all about climate change. Meanwhile extreme weather has played havoc on power infrastructure around the country,

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Climate inaction linked to culture of cutting corners

29 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

 [CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT]  is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in.

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Let’s meet and greet our local climate sceptics with confidence – and a smile

29 August 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational, Local Geelong matters 3 comments

You can’t judge climate sceptics as if they are all the same. They come in various sizes and shapes, with different motivations, and we need to be able to distinguish sceptics from deniers, trolls from laggards. We have seen their

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We were being lied to. Victorians still are

11 October 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Today in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about air pollution and cheating with air quality measurements. Outraged by the recent Volkswagen and Exxon scandals, we take a look at local examples of scandalous emissions fraud and

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A brighter future minus coal and gas

7 August 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

At a time when governments protect and promote the coal and gas industries… At a time when the entire world is saying that coal and gas urgently need to be phased out due to the climatic complications caused by the

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Modern society is a suicide cult

24 September 2013 Jens-André Herbener Commentary

Liberal and Conservative politicians accuse science of climate change of doomsday hysteria, but do not see the religious plank in their own eyes. Most people have heard about cults, which in the name of religious fanaticism commit collective suicide and

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Climate scepticism paralyses political climate initiatives

15 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary

The fact that still in 2013 there are people who loudly and repeatedly say ‘climate change is a scam’ has an impact on our common future which should not be underestimated. It influences public opinion as well as the politicians

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Crowdfunding to cancel fossil fuel subsidies

22 March 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

This blog-post touches upon three absurdities of our time, and a new tool to work around them: crowdfunding. The three absurdities of March 2013 are: • Governments donate 1.9 trillion dollars annually as public subsidies to the fossil fuel industry,

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  • Australian climate movement: ‘Yes’ to the Voice
  • Introducing: The Sustainable Civilisation
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  • Calls on young women to stand up and be heard
  • Rest and repair
  • Unprecedented territory
  • Robert Hinkley: Corporations need a moral compass
  • Talk with those who come after us
  • Gardening the reef and behaviour change
  • We are playing with fire
  • Igniting action for climate and native grasses
  • Climate activist joins Geelong Council
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  • Care, connect, collaborate and contribute
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  • What an emergency response would look like
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  • Harnessing the power of air pressure
  • Path to carbon freedom: Collectivised power
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