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Is the Queen’s funeral a requiem for humanity?
The event Queen Elizabeth’s funeral marks the end of an era. What era?… And, exactly what have we been celebrating?… Australia, and indeed, seemingly most the rest of the world has spent the last two weeks mourning the passing of a 97 year old lady on the other side of the globe with a panoply…
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Victorian Election Reminder – Vote Climate One
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization warns us that we have done nothing to slow the global warming caused by our carbon emissions. Geneva, 13 September 2022 (WMO) – Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction, according to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which highlights the…
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Why is the Queen’s death more newsworthy than the rapidly approaching death of our own species?
An editorial in today’s Guardian Opinion, asks this question — without finding a sensible answer. I ask, “Is this another case of Don’t Look Up?” By Euan Ritchie, 16/09/2022 in the Guardian Why did the Queen’s death receive saturation media coverage while the future of the Earth goes largely ignored? Just one day after the…
Transforming Australia’s Parliament to act on climate
A rising tsunami of teal independents is transforming our democracy representing special interests to a participatory democracy of community representatives As noted in my many posts to Climate Sentinel News, it is becoming increasingly evident that humanity on our only planet faces near term extinction if we don’t manage to stop and reverse the global…
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Emergence and proliferation of pro-climate community voices: Part 1 – The rising tide of the teal tsunami
Introduction The results of the 21 May 2022 federal election looks like the beginning of a fundamental revolution in the way politics is done in Australia. Not only has our Parliament shifted from close to a decade of domination by the conservative and reactionary Liberal and National Party Coalition to a more progressive Labor government,…
Urgent action needed now to stop warming!
Aside from some flooding Australia has had it fairly easy compared to increasing frequency, extent, and severity of climate catastrophes in other parts of the world. Don’t let our cooler La Nina and Indian Ocean dipole conditions fool you. The rest of the world really suffering! Bill McKibben, is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist…