Tag: politics

The Great Delay on Climate

We gave up on climate long ago. We have known since the 70s of last century what the result of burning fossil fuels would be, and….. We have had decades of avoidance. Decades of pretending it is not a problem. We’ve had fossil...

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Borders in the global world

National borders First thing that has to be grasped. Fixed borders between countries seem to be a relatively recent development. In ‘olden days’ people would cross from one country, or duchy or whatever, to another...

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Australian Election

Sorry local politics again, but final election summary of the real issues for the governing Coalition: 1) Climate. The coalition will do nothing except make the problems worse. 2) Energy Transition. More taxpayers’ money...

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Labor and the Carbon Tax

Yesterday right wing radio host Ray Hadley asked Anthony Albanese, the leader of the Australian Opposition repeat after him: “There will be no carbon tax, ever.” Personally I would have preferred, he had not been sick and that...

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The 2022 Australian Election???

What should this election be about? 1) Climate change and energy transition. The Federal Coalition are demonstrably completely useless on this front. They are locked into more fossil fuels, extending the life of fossil fuels and...

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