If you know the term cognitive dissonance, it applies to ability of a person to hold entirely incompatible ideas in their head at the same […] Read More
Author: Rod Taylor
How do you cope with the dire trajectory of climate change? It’s a tough question that we all now face. In this episode, ACT Greens […] Read More
Collectively we are driving Earth and civilisation towards collapse. Human activities have exceeded planetary boundaries. We are changing the climate, losing biodiversity, degrading land, contaminating freshwater, and damaging the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles upon which we all depend.
Presentation “The Energy Transition: Overcoming the Non-Technical Barriers”. Despite its rapid growth, renewable energy is chasing a retreating target, the continuing growth in energy consumption, much of which is still fossil fuelled. If this consumption growth continues at the pre-pandemic rate, it will be impossible for renewables to replace all fossil fuels by 2050 and the risk of crossing climate tipping points wil increase. Therefore, the rich countries must reduce their energy consumption.
The path to a sustainable civilisation is to build social movements to pressure government and big business, to weaken the power of vested interests and […] Read More
If there were a single invention of humanity that you remove, what would that be? In this episode we revisit a personal story broadcast on […] Read More
So it’s okay to clear the Amazon jungle? Almost certainly you disagree with that statement, but how do you respond when someone says that to […] Read More
When somebody makes a statement that is foreign to your thinking, how do you react? In this episode, Rod Taylor recounts a conversation with the […] Read More