For five generations, Charles Massy’s family rode on the sheep’s back and nearly destroyed their land in the process. When drought in the 80s and 90s almost sent him broke, the Cooma farmer switched to regenerative agriculture and watched his overgrazed land recover.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/austory/breaking-new-ground/12697330
Remarkable story, wrecked by industrial style farming, sold off machinery and chemicals, reduced stock and more profitable, happily ever after.
CSIRO report questions Morrison’s faith in soil carbon due to warming climate | RenewEconomy
— Read on www.google.com.au/amp/s/reneweconomy.com.au/csiro-report-questions-morrisons-faith-in-soil-carbon-due-to-warming-climate-65935/amp/
Australia lags by more than a decade in tackling the health effects of low-quality petrol
— Read on insidestory.org.au/fuels-paradise/
How smugly is this, after 5 years investigation to 2018…
…”environment minister, Josh Frydenberg, declared that “Australia’s petrol quality is the lowest in the OECD or seventieth in the world.”
For the first time since the industrial revolution, coal-fired power will constitute less than 20 per cent of the world’s energy by 2040, according to the annual report by the International Energy Agency.
— Read on www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/old-king-coal-has-surrendered-to-solar-says-global-power-report-20201013-p564q4.html
Energy Renaissance says it will start building $28m, solar powered Renaissance One lithium-ion battery plant within weeks in Tomago.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/energy-renaissance-names-hunter-region-for-australias-first-battery-gigafactory-66924/amp/
PM says he’s ‘more interested in the doing’ as he walks back amount of new generation needed to replace Liddell coal plant from 1,000MW to 250MW
— Read on www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/20/scott-morrison-refuses-to-commit-to-net-zero-emissions-target-by-2050
Still saying he won’t commit until he knows how much it will cost. How much more time does LNP need? Treasury has not been asked to cost not doing anything about emission reductions, not since 2008!!! Not @ScottMorrisonMP
It has been almost THREE YEARS since the EPA began their coal power station licence review. Now it has stalled without explanation.
— Read on environmentvictoria.org.au/action/send-the-epa-an-overdue-notice/
In a country with emission limits for residential slow combustion wood fires, wouldn’t you think they’d give a damn about brown coal power stations? What about vehicle tail pipe emissions? If not, what is the point of EPA?
Worth a quick read, powerful concepts to spark action.
This is our open letter and our demands to global leaders, signed by thousands of activists, scientists, representatives of civil society and influencers.
— Read on climateemergencyeu.org/
PS leaders in Australia are confident Arctic fires are caused by arsonists!!
12 October − Fires now blaze under Arctic snows, where once even the wettest rainforests burned. Climate change delivers unlikely outcomes.
— Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/climate-heat-melts-arctic-snows-and-dries-forests/
His US$2 trillion plan includes huge investments in clean energy research and development, and low-emissions infrastructure such as public transport and energy-efficient buildings. He has also promised a border tax levied on imports from countries without a carbon price.
— Read on theconversation.com/backwards-federal-budget-morrison-government-never-fails-to-disappoint-on-climate-action-147659
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