Climate Tasmania

The biggest climate challenge is in our minds. We’ll get nowhere until we can “think anew, and act anew”. [18 January 2011 | Peter Boyer]
“People just don’t know what to expect,” was the response of Brisbane resident Debbie Wilks, aged 50, to a reporter’s question about the city’s floods. “I think everyone realises we are [...]

Peak oil is a cloud hanging over everything we do. Pretending it isn’t going to happen will not prevent this inevitable shock to our way of life. [22 October 2010 | Peter Needham]
Whether oil production is a peak or a plateau doesn’t matter. Oil production will inevitably decline, and that descent will be as volatile as [...]

Hope is the message that emerges from a sweeping analysis of our present time on Earth. This is Tim Flannery’s best book yet.
[30 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Tim Flannery’s new book, Here on Earth, is the story of life on Planet Earth. Themes don’t come any bigger than this, so Flannery sensibly draws on the [...]