What next? Not next week, or next month, but in the coming years? These are the questions our media pundits, caught up in the merry-go-round of faces are not asking, at least, not in public (e.g. Insiders was pretty vapid on Sunday 26th August). There are several good reasons for this present-ism, not least that... Continue Reading →
Lenore Taylor, Mike Seccombe & Australian #climate politics – institutional memory
Australian content alert: Yeah, this is a bit of geekery. There's a Sunday morning politics show called Insiders, which is a ritual thing I do with my mum and her next door neighbour. The format is solid (stolid?)- a host (usually Barrie Cassidy) and three hacks, sorry, journalists. There's a long interview with a pollie,... Continue Reading →
Songs of loss and pre-emptive mourning
My new earworm is Joey by Concrete Blonde. It's a brilliant song, with astonishing vocals from Johnette Napolitano. It sits alongside other songs of mourning for lost friendships, lost loves (something Paul Kelly and Billy Bragg do well). That sense of hoping to reconnect with someone who has their own battles to fight is... Continue Reading →
Another #climate warning from 1969. #Australia
On 25 June 1969 Ralph Slayter, an Australian scientist, gave one of the first (but not the first - that's for another time) warnings of the dangers of the build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Slayter was talking at the Australian National University, as part of a lecture series on 'Man and the New... Continue Reading →
Video Vox Pop – how I would do it, fwiw.
Recently I proposed that an organisation (I am a FIFO activist on this) organise some video vox pops around an event that they’re organising for about five weeks’ time. This post is how I would do it. (Or rather, how I like to believe that I would be able to do it. By now, pushing... Continue Reading →
A #climate warning from the 1969 Reith Lectures
We knew. We knew. Don't let anyone tell you that the failure of the human response to what is fairly clearly its terminal situation was down to ignorance or a lack of advance warning. The standard narrative has the world first being told in 1988, thanks to prolonged work by scientists like James Hansen, Bert... Continue Reading →
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