Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

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In praise of modest living

Spending our way out of trouble appeals to our leaders, but it’s no way to build a sustainable economy. [31 January 2012 | Peter Boyer]
I’ve just posted off a birthday present to my son. Nothing extravagant. He’s learned over the years to expect modest gifts from me, and this year will be no exception.
I was [...]

When the ship of state strikes rocks…

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 [...]

So who’s the old misery-guts?

We hear much about alarmist doomsayers predicting the end of the world, but the climate-energy crisis is something we should feel positive about. [7 June 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Here we are in the Hundred Acre Wood, sheltered at last from the furious wind, while Piglet listens nervously to the roaring of the gale in the [...]