Climate Tasmania

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

Memo to authority: practise what you preach

We are right to be angry at the failure of government, political and official, to give climate change the prominence it deserves in policy decisions and administrative action.

Reality: the only game that counts

The pricking of the bubble that was endless economic growth should be a lesson to us in tackling climate change.

Are the long years of shadow-boxing coming to an end?

Climate change may now be starting to get the prominence it deserves in political circles, but given the big paradigm shifts we need to make, our leaders still have much to get their heads around.