Climate Tasmania

In the debate about global sustainability, peak oil has been somewhat sidelined. In seeking a greater public engagement with the energy challenge presented by the prospect of a declining oil supply, we have much to learn from how the public has responded to the issue of global warming. [18 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Address to a [...]

Besides being one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Stephen Schneider had deeply-felt humanitarian convictions. His experience of taking his climate concerns to the wider public should alert us to the real climate challenge: getting ordinary people engaged in reducing our carbon footprint. [14 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
On the day last week when we finally [...]

The loss of biodiversity is the most potentially devastating outcome of carbon pollution by humans. Australians have lived for two long by the outmoded mindset that says we can manage without other species. We must do more to keep what natural diversity we have left. [7 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I [...]