Opinion
Rio+20 and the New Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Scientific thinking has changed radically over the last two decades, so that what we used to think of as “the environment”-the natural world spread around us-no longer exists. So the default position is no longer how to minimize our impact on the environment, but how best to intervene. The goal
Science Under Siege
When the denial machine goes after climate scientists it is, as one of them said, like the marines going into battle against boy scouts. The brutality of the attacks has once again been confirmed by the release of some of the emails sent to Phil Jones, the University of East
The Heretic: Melbourne Theatre Company goes over to the dark side
Who would have thought the Melbourne Theatre Company would get into bed with Andrew Bolt? The Conversation, 9 May 2012
ABC Should Be Fair to the Truth
Because it falls for the deniers’ tactic of doubt-mongering, ABC TV’s program “I Can Change Your Mind…About Climate Change” is a victory for climate denial even before it goes to air.Crikey, 26 April 2012
What we do in Woolies matters more than what we do in bed
Affluence rather than population growth is mainly responsible for the climate crisis.The Conversation, 23 April 2012
Bioengineering as a response to global warming
You know the situation is getting desperate when three bio-ethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In a bizarre paper titled ‘Human engineering and climate change’, Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg and Rebecca Roache argue we should seriously consider technologies to engineer human bodies to reduce carbon emissions.
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Having just left there after spending almost two hours in line and being unable to get in, I’d wager that the number of people inside the security perimeter, plus the number of people outside the perimeter who tried to get in, vastly exceeded that.