What is our relationship towards the environment and why should we care about it?
In the way we have come to use the automobile, I think we have lost many things - clean air, health, nature, green spaces, and a little bit of our soul. This is my call for us to banish mass private ownership of automobiles from our cities.
We need a change in our culture to enable us to live in an environmentally attuned way, here are my ideas on how we need to change
Here are some of the changes we all need to make in our lives to stop being footsoldiers in the war against the natural world
The animals in the human food system are one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A lot of different studies have come up with different figures as to what percentage of emissions are attributable to livestock; here I discuss them in the context of the world and Australia specifically.
In only a short time, Australia has been radically changed by European settlement. This is an introduction into the main problems we face.
We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Stop reading what I'm writing now and go and read this. OK assuming you've ignored that, this is one of the most important books I have ever read and I can't recommend it highly enough. Sharon Beder outlines how corporations are waging a very conscious war for the public mind against environmentalism, with regard for only themselves. They have resources and media at their control that groups reliant on public donations can only dream about, and when they can't squash the truth with lawsuits, advertising and political meddling, they take on the facade of traditional grassroots activism and make it...