I have written a lot of articles for the website The Conversation. Mostly they are about climate change. Here, to mark seventy years since Gilbert Plass's warning to the AGU, is the latest. (Gratifyingly, it's lead on the convo website!)
There are LOTS of reasons to be critical of XR. No doubt. But when you set up strawmen and regurgitate petro-propaganda, you waste everyone's time. Letter in the Adelaide Advertiser today. The letter offering free advice to Extinction Rebellion ("Plastic Problem", Advertiser, 9 May) was a classic of its type. It finishes with the profoundly... Continue Reading →
Yomp #04 0710-1215 on 04 05 2023 = 305 mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack Well, that's the longest yomp I have done since about the middle of 2021, when I was relatively SuperFit. I am not yet SuperFit - it will take another 6 months of regular yomping at this distance/time on a... Continue Reading →
The Australian Labor Party is going to get us all killed. Either slowly - via climate change - or quickly, as collateral damage in a war between China and the USA. And there is an interesting parallel in the policy processes underlying both disasters. I just finished reading 'Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with... Continue Reading →
Mike Seccombe's customarily excellent reporting ("electric vehicles policy stuck in low gear") put me in mind of a front page story on the Adelaide Advertiser I recently encountered. Under the headline "Addiction to cars must go - Minister" the relevant federal minister said "everyone has his role to play, even if it's to wal to the shop instead of... Continue Reading →
Letter in Advertiser today (29 April) Two fascinating articles in the Advertiser yesterday. First in "Auf wiedersehen, Pete" (congrats to whoever came up with that headline, btw) we learn that SA Premier Peter Malinauskas is continuing the work of South Australia's political leaders - dating back to Mike Rann - in seeking advantages for the... Continue Reading →
Yomp #03 0730-1110 on 27 04 2023 = 220 mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack Hmmm. This was supposed to be the one where I breached the 240 minute mark (See Yomp 2 here btw). But that would have involved actually leaving the house when my alarm went off, instead of faffing. And then... Continue Reading →
Letter in the Adelaide Advertiser today- Your reporter Clare Armstrong, in reporting on a new opinion poll, that "climate change is seen as a mid-tier issue compared to immediate financial pressures" ('Power prices biggest worry,' Advertiser, 24 April). Long-term threats always lose out to the short-term; today's final demand letter thudding on the doormat will always... Continue Reading →
Arena is an Australian radical/left/sorta-Marxist publication, often very interesting and insightful. This from an article by a chap called Mark Furlong caught my eye. "Because climate collapse is a hyper-object, recognition promises to 'do your head in'. It suggests a disturbance so holistic, so total - of every aspect of life, now and forever -... Continue Reading →
So, I am doing yomps around Adelaide (see here and here, with a 4 plus hour one to come), with 18kgs of weights in a backpack. Alongside thism I am doing shorter but "up hill" things at the local oval. There's a mound with stairs, but, better, there's a football stand (albeit not the really... Continue Reading →
