Climate Tasmania

As a global economic depression begins to look ever more likely, what are the prospects for redirecting our own economy? [24 January 2012 | Peter Boyer]
If there’s a single all-embracing emblem of what most of our political and business elite promote as an ideal economy, it has to be one of those floating fantasy-lands we [...]

It’s fine for a banker to endow us with his wisdom on financial matters. It’s not fine when he uses his platform to contradict the prevailing science of climate change. [13 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
A couple of weeks ago David Murray, chairman of Australia’s Future Fund and long-serving former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, [...]

The passage of carbon pricing legislation through the House of Representatives is a big step forward. [18 October 2011 | Peter Boyer]
There are the optimists among us, and then there’s the rest. I’ve always considered myself optimistic, which is why I’m applauding the seismic shift that happened in Canberra last week.
I had thought I’d devote [...]