Tag: environment
I spoke to ‘minimalists’ to find out why they are giving up their personal possessions
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I recently spoke to a man named Adam who told me that every object he owns could fit in one of Ikea’s...
Sunday essay: how many climate crisis books will it take to save the planet?
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It’s that time of the year again. Brochures and emails spruik a bumper crop of new books about the climate...
Let’s fix Australia’s environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it
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The COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant economic challenges for Australia. With April figures showing more than 800,000 people unemployed and last month 1.6 million on JobSeeker payments,...
Snowy 2.0 threatens to pollute our rivers and wipe out native fish
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The federal government’s Snowy 2.0 energy venture is controversial for many reasons, but one has largely escaped public attention. The project threatens to devastate...
5 big environment stories you probably missed while you’ve been watching coronavirus
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Good news: COVID-19 is not the only thing going on right now!
Bad news: while we’ve all been deep in the corona-hole, the climate...
Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics
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The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making.
That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental...