Climate Tasmania

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

Our culture is killing us

We have to confront the fact that climate change is a global emergency before we can meet the real challenge, which is cultural change. [1 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Getting busy is a sure way to lose track of time. Since I busied myself with the problem of climate change, I’m often surprised by how [...]

A failure of moral leadership and pastoral care

Climate change is the greatest moral issue of our age — an extension of Robert Kennedy’s vision for a more humane society — yet church leaders have ignored it or dismissed it as invention. [4 August 2009 | Peter Boyer]
“We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in [...]