Climate Conversations

Global collapse of the climate world demands total attention, but Australia has been distracted by an expensive nuclear - "Details of AUKUS deal unveiled".

And former Australian Treasurer, Joe Hockey (pictured), says: "There is no option".

"How GDP Fetishism Drives Climate Crisis and Inequality";

"Whole Food Systems: Jessica Fanzo Looks at How Food Connects With Everything Else";

"How to live an ethical life and change the world";

"A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us";

"Greenland temperatures surge up to 50 degrees above normal, setting records";

"Future warming from global food consumption";

"The Greens aren’t grandstanding on a new coal and gas ban – they’re negotiating well";

"Our Response to Climate Change Is Missing Something Big, Scientists Say";

"The Shell Game Behind Carbon Credits with Nick Feik";

"The great stock ’n’ coal swindle".

Clare Hymer (pictured) took to Twitter to explode the conspiracies around the 15 minute city and talked with George Monbiot about his then new book, "Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis".

"People Live in Cities: An Analysis of Urban Planning’s Role in Loneliness";

"Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say";

"What is the '15-minute city' conspiracy theory?";

"'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city'";

"Our electric future";

"Putting trees back into the urban jungle";

"Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom";

"How to protect your homes from ice and snow";

"Aramco: Saudi state-owned oil giant sees record profit of $161bn";

"Forget the conspiracies, 15-minute cities will free us to improve our mental health and wellbeing".

Humanity's efforts to avoid the worst of the climate crisis hinge on bold, charismatic, innovative and farseeing leadership and it fell to Miriam Mohammed (pictured) o explain something about leadership when she appeared on ABC's "The Drum", although she was talking about Australia's indigenous Voice to Parliament, rather than climate change. Good leadership is, however, interchangeable and not necessarily topic dependent.

One who understands leadership is the author of "The End of Nature", Bill McKibben, in conversation here with "Ezra Klein".

"A desperate race to avoid locking in the pathway to human extinction";

"Degrowth in a Green-Growth World";

"A Blanket of Snow for California";

"The first great energy transition: how humanity gave up whaling";

"‘Move people to rooftops’: Worst-ever Qld rain forces Burketown evacuation as power and sewers fail";

"At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels";

"The Trouble With "Market-Based" Climate Solutions."

Economic anthropologist, Dr. Jason Hickel (pictured), takes us on a journey through degrowth and exposes the failures of our existing economic system - hear him in conversation with neoclassical economist, Barbara Baarsma.

Read Jason Hickel's latest book "Less is More".

"China strengthens role of courts in meeting carbon targets";

"Meet the Teenage Private Jet Detective";

"Australia’s biggest electric vehicle show roars to life";

"Met Office issues FIVE new snow warnings as UK braces for overnight blizzards";

"Minns pledges $25 million to train hydrogen plumbers";

"A looming El Niño could give us a preview of life at 1.5C of warming";

"EU agrees diplomatic push for fossil fuel phase out ahead of Cop28";

"CCC: Decarbonised power system by 2035 is possible but not at this pace of delivery".

Russell Klose (pictured) lived a life embedded in internal combustion engine cars, which he said "I loved", but now, eager to do something positive for the planet, he has shifted to importing and selling second-hand electric cars.

Along with his son, Cam, and Yakandandah solicitor, Matt Grogan, he is now importing and selling used electric Nissan Leafs through the Yackandandah business, "Kilowatt Cars".