14 July 2022, Renew Economy: The madness of cutting down forests to grow food crops for supersonic aircraft biofuels. Regular readers will recognise several recurring themes in my writing, including the risks involved with reviving carbon-intensive supersonic aircraft and the challenges of … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Agriculture
31 October 2019, The Conversation, The science of drought is complex but the message on climate change is clear.The issue of whether Australia’s current drought is caused by climate change has been seized on by some media commentators, with debate … Continue reading →
26 July 2019, The Guardian, Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’. Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond … Continue reading →
February 2019: Institute for Public Policy Research: THIS IS A CRISIS – FACING UP TO THE AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL BREAKDOWN Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, … Continue reading →