We have failed the 1.5C challenge, an aspirational global warming target suggested in 2008 by vulnerable countries in the Alliance of Small Island States and subsequently adopted by the 2015 Paris agreement. What hope do we have now? In the words of Ross Garnaut, a distinguished Australian Economist, “the best that we can hope forContinue reading “So what is Australia’s Climate Policy?”
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The Right Time
Two firies died yesterday fighting bushfires as Australia suffered its second day this week of record breaking temperatures. Below is my brother David’s editorial piece. The Right Time The Prime Minister asserted now, in the death struggle to control devastating bushfires, was not the right time to discuss the potential impacts of climate change onContinue reading “The Right Time”
Resilience
Resilience is about coping with a new reality that’s beyond our control. It’s about finding strategies that help navigate the way ahead with a focus on the small things that are in your control. Often changing perspective may be the only positive course of action but it has the power to open the door toContinue reading “Resilience”
We’re out of gas
In the New York Times Bestseller Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken, I learned that heating water for showers, laundry and washing up accounts for a staggering quarter of residential energy use worldwide. This prompted me to resume our efforts to replace our existing gas hotContinue reading “We’re out of gas”
A pipe’s cruel legacy
Grandpa loved his pipe. Though it smelt like tomcat piss Sir Water Raleigh was his weed of choice. Grandpa was a professor and loved to smoke in the privacy of his study while he read, researched and thought great thoughts, mostly early in the mornings along with coffee. Seduced by the euphoric powers of hisContinue reading “A pipe’s cruel legacy”
Environmental worldviews
Human-centred Vs Stewardship Worldviews My environmental worldview aligns with stewardship. Many resources are finite and shouldn’t be wasted, humans have a responsibility (duty of care) to leave the earth in a condition similar to how they found it because earth and its resources are on loan from future generations. This requires finding sustainable ways ofContinue reading “Environmental worldviews”
The benefits of Volunteering
As most people know, helping others by doing something meaningful with your talents enriches your life far beyond what is possible when everything revolves around you. We all have different skill sets and temperaments that determine the best way we can volunteer to help others. Not all of us are suited to serve in aContinue reading “The benefits of Volunteering”
Heirloom
Queensland, my home state in Australia, has a coal mining heritage that will be a major challenge for global warming abatement. How and when we can make a just transition from coal to renewable energy sources is one of the top concerns of the climate activist movements that protest in Brisbane, such as Australian ParentsContinue reading “Heirloom”
Counting down to the last goodbye
I’m a grandmother who cares deeply about the state of the planet my grand children will inherit. I’m counting down to my own death which if all goes well will be when I am 90, so I have approximately 21 years left. I am also counting down the time we have left to rescue planetContinue reading “Counting down to the last goodbye”
Counting Down 