The title is a famous refrain from “The Man from Snowy River” by Banjo Paterson (1890) https://allpoetry.com/The-Man-from-Snowy-River. The highly valued colt from old Regret bolts to join the wild bush horses, ‘He was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray’ to find him and bring him home. Climate hasContinue reading “‘So all the cracks had gathered to the fray’”
Category Archives: Climate Change
Scotty’s Road to Damascus?
He may not see the light, but no doubt he’ll feel the heat at COP26 in Glasgow next month. Incoherent yabbering about plans and pathways, vague thoughts on targets. “Technology not taxes”, or is it “Technology not targets”? Hard to pin him down on a revised concrete emissions reduction target, much less a date. Australia’sContinue reading “Scotty’s Road to Damascus?”
Wake up Mr Morrison
The planet is burning Mr Morrison, how do you sleep while our planet is burning? The time has come to face the facts. You do not own the planet Earth, you are a caretaker, a very poor caretaker. When markets fail, governments are obliged to intervene and find ways to help the price mechanism findContinue reading “Wake up Mr Morrison”
A heat pump solution
Showers powered by the sun are delightful and the energy cost savings are significant. Sadly, our roof-mounted solar hot water system must come down. While the body corporate has not passed a by-law to prevent the installation of solar hot water systems, our motion to ratify our installed system was unsuccessful. At an extraordinary generalContinue reading “A heat pump solution”
So what is Australia’s Climate Policy?
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?”
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”
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”
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”
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 