Our environmental narratives tend to exclude man as being a sort of non-natural being. A termite nest is a thing of wonder, but a sky-scraper is a blight, that sort of thing. Until recently man has been such an insignificant animal that most of creation could get by quite well without accomodating itself to him. […]

It’s not easy being an eco-fem. That why Vandana Shiva and Arundhati Roy are heroines. Long ago, I also had some sympathy for Ros Kelly as she struggled to place ‘brown issues’ on the policy agenda. Overall Labor has not enjoyed my full respect since Whitlam flooded Lake Pedder, but let’s not talk of ‘who […]

People in greenhouses shouldn’t throw stones – if you’re going to criticise it helps to get your facts right. Which is a problem for Andrew Bolt. In this piece on Global Warming Bolt analyses ten things The Age claims should make us worry about Global Warming. In the process of his critique he says 7: […]

Today the Kyoto protocol comes into effect. As a result the media has been deluged with a tsunami of pro and anti-Kyoto voices, but I have yet to hear anyone ask, or answer, the most pertinent issue of all: What is the optimal concentration of atmospheric CO2 from a human point of view? What all […]