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Humanity Faces
'Revenge of Gaia"
by Michael McCarthy, London
- 17.01.06
The world has already passed
the point of no return for climate change, and civilisation
is now unlikely to survive, according to the scientist who
conceived Gaia theory - the Earth as a living, breathing
organism. In a profoundly pessimistic new assessment, Professor
James Lovelock suggests that efforts to counter global warming
cannot succeed, and that, in effect, it is already too late.
The world and human society face disaster to a worse extent,
and on a faster timescale, than almost anybody realises,
he predicts.
Read more of what Professor James Lovelock has to say here
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Climate Change
An article written by Alan
Roberts for The Big Scrub Environment Centre Newsletter s
Autumn/Winter 2005
It’s up to us people... are we prepared to expend strenuous
human effort to establish a bright new sustainable era or
will we allow ‘business as usual’ to beguile us
into chaos, more drastic climate change and extinction?
Read Alan's article here.
Includes a section on what we can do both individually and
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Renewable Energy Sources
Renewable energy and energy efficiency can deliver the power
we need – without the problems. Renewable energy, mostly
hydroelectricity, already supplies 19% of world electricity,
compared to nuclear’s 16%. The share of renewables is
increasing, while nuclear’s share is decreasing.
Read why Nuclear Energy is no solution to climate change here |
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Green Electricity
You now have the power to
invest in the future. By choosing genuinely renewable electricity
you will be helping to reduce Australia’s unsustainably
high greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the threat of human-induced
climate change. You will also be helping to create jobs and
investment in the fastest growing industry sector in Australia
– renewable energy.
Find out more here |
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No Solution to Climate
Change
Nuclear power is currently unlawful under the 1998 Australian
Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act, while Victoria
and New South Wales also have legislation banning nuclear
power and nuclear waste storage and disposal. Three other
states – South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern
Territory – have legal prohibitions against various forms
of radioactive waste transportation and dumping.
Read more about uranium issues here |
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George Monbiot: Save
The Planet in 10 Steps
With the publication of the Stern Report, the consensus on
climate change is clear. Here is
what we need to do. |
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Sweden
Plans on Being The First Country in the World To Be FREE FROM
OIL in 2020
Swedish Press Dec 2005
Minister for Sustainable Development
Mona Sahlin has declared that Sweden is going to become the
first country in the world to break the dependence on fossil
energy. Sweden will stop using oil by 2020 and eventually
the energy supply of the country will be based on renewable
energy only.
Read more here |
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Peak Oil
Excerpts from an article by Tim
Winton:
In the past year the term 'Peak
Oil' has left the confines of a small but committed community
of peak oil analysts and leapt into the mainstream press.
Analysts are warning that peak oil will be the defining event
of this century and will rival climate change as the focus
of sustainability, and that the world as we know it will change
in a very short time. Peak oil, the dark twin of climate changerequires
the understanding of a few unfamiliar concepts.
Read more here |
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How will climate change
affect the water supplies where you live?
CANA has just released a comprehensive
and easy to read website that uses all of the Australian research
on the impacts of climate change on our water, and identifies
how climate change will affect water for our cities, our farmers
and our environment. www.cana.net.au/water |
North Coast Climate
Action Group
is a grassroots campaign to empower
people and push the political process from the bottom up.
Our aim is to demonstrate how individual and collective actions
can make a difference. The choices that we make now have implications
for the future. We ask the question: what can we as individuals
do, in our businesses and in our community?
Read what you can do and join up at www.nccag.org
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Despair and Empowerment
Roadshow:
with Ruth Rosenhek &
John Seed
For a comprehensive list of articles and initiatives, visit
www.climate.net.au
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