• Publication date: 05/2020
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue: 2
Foreword

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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Articles
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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Short Stories
67 The Gardener Alexander Forbes
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Poetry
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
Misc.
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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