Today, more than fifty environmental and climate organisations signed an open letter calling on the Australian Government to listen to scientific evidence on climate change and prevent new fossil fuel projects and expansions.

Published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times today, the open letter coincides with the Senate debate on the government's proposed laws that are supposed to reduce emissions from Australia's biggest polluters.

The crossbench has raised concerns that the Safeguards Mechanism legislation, as it stands, will do nothing to prevent the expansion and creation of 100+ new gas and coal projects across Australia.

The organisations join more than one hundred Australian scientists and experts who signed the open letter calling for no new fossil fuel projects, with prominent signatories including Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and former Australian of the Year Professor Fiona Stanley.

Will you join them and add your name to the open letter? Here's the link.

#auspol #globalHeating #NoNewCoal #AustraliaInstitute

https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/scientists_open_letter?recruiter_id=289709

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic-fairytale-australias-inflation-being-driven-by-company-profits-and-not-wages-analysis-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Hasn't anyone with half a brain been telling government this.
Thank you #AustraliaInstitute for talking sense.

PROVOCATEUR

“Provocateur: A life of ideas in action“, the recent memoir by Clive Hamilton (2022) - just #FinishedReading. I found it engrossing and thought provoking. From the 1980s to the present, including early days at #AustraliaInstitute and his many books. He lets us into his thinking throughout.

“In a life of advocacy scholarship, the pain of advocacy outweighs the pleasures of scholarship. Beyond that, the more one knows of the world, the more one is distressed by it, a truth many people understand. And yet, we cannot leave it; we feel obliged to remain engaged with the world.“

https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/provocateur-by-clive-hamilton/9781743798577

@clacke
Yes, we cannot underestimate the ills of the #bureaucracy. In many cases they get things wrong. In #Australia one need only find the #robodebt problem, but there is a long list of way they get things wrong. And people are not reimbursed for the hundreds of hours they spend clawing back what they own, because they can't show actual losses, being #unemployed.

Its quite vicious.

Also #FutureWork of the #AustraliaInstitute found that…(1/2)
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