Forty years ago, I analysed Australia’s future energy alternatives in the very first issue of Social Alternatives (Lowe 1977). It then became clear that climate change was significant and would demand a new approach to energy supply and use (Lowe 1989). Vested interests and right-wing politicians have prolonged the fossil fuel industry, largely through carefully orchestrated misinformation, but rapid change is now evident. The 2019-20 bushfires demonstrated the scale of the threat to Australia. While an optimist might think that even Coalition governments will have to bow to the inevitable, the fixation with growth remains a fundamental obstacle
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Kate Assarian, Dugald Williamson, Hester J. Rook, Sarah Temporal, Debra Livingston, Alexander Forbes, David Ritter, Richard Hil, Sue Charlton, Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller, Claudia Baldwin, Kathryn English, Kadi Warner, Michael Buky, Bronwyn Stevens, Ian Lowe | |||
5 | Climate Emergency, COVID-19: Introduction to Global Emergency | Bronwyn Stevens |
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10 | Degrees of Climate Crisis | Michael Buky |
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19 | Climate Justice: Who bears the burden and pays the price? | Kadi Warner |
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26 | How Climate Change Knowledge and Emotions Influence Community Advocacy | Kathryn English and Claudia Baldwin |
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43 | Learning from Dual Global Crises: COVID-19 and climate change | Claudia Baldwin and Kathryn English |
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50 | International Organisations and State Sovereignty: The World Health Organisation and COVID-19 | Xu Yi-chong and Patrick Weller |
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60 | Timeline - COVID-19: Events from the first identified case to 15 April | Xu Yi-chong |
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64 | Covid-19 and Regional Health: We’re all in this together? | sue CharLton |
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67 | The Gardener | Alexander Forbes |
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4 | and then | Sarah Tempora | |
9 | Swansoft | Hester J. Rook | |
18 | The Shell of Entitlement | David Adès | |
25 | Distillation | David Adès | |
42 | The electoral hour | Dugald Williamson | |
49 | Daddy Bird | Kate Assarian | |
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3 | Reflections on Forty Years of Failed Australian Climate Policy | Ian Lowe | |
35 | Rethinking us: Civil society, civility, climate change and the great unravelling | Richard Hil |
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39 | Under the Currawong’s Eye: Fire, pandemic and the bridge to hope1 | David Ritter |
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