Farmers for Climate Action finds most regional residents impacted by renewables are supportive - ABC News
A nationwide survey by Farmers for Climate Action has found 70 per cent of residents living in areas affected by green energy projects are supportive of them.
Contrary to Newscorp and Barnaby's bullshit rhetoric
Professor Kevin Anderson - "... taking large risks with dire consequences ..."
A recent interview with on of the few Adults in the "Climate Debate", Professor Kevin Anderson.
Wealth effect ? Sigh... More and more debt.
A dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitants". - Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
But It is, the only thing it's not above is the constituion and our constitution is particulalry weak on any rights of citizens.
The shittiest one is the back dated legislation we introduce when it found they breached the law, happens way to often.
Quitting a job cold is one of the dumbest things you can do when you do not have any safety nets.
I quit work at 35 and now 58. My only regret in life is not quitting earlier. I get mo pensions or welfare or inheritance, I'm just mindful of spending and ever since I was 19 I invested small amounts of surplus income in stocks and shares that ballooned over the decades to large amounts.
Frugality includes all the other virtues.” – Cicero
Extreme heatwaves exceed forecasts, kill thousands
New research shows that climate models underestimate regional heating by large margins…
>New research shows that climate models underestimate regional heating by large margins
They should've passed the legislation and pressed for more action immediately.
No, the legislation is beyond a turd, thers bilkuosn for developers even with zero houses built... as a Greens voter, its a pity they caved at all.
Chnadker-Mathers tik tok video did a great job of explaining how fucking appalling it was.
Can we chip i and hekp with some $$ at keast ?
Australian news. Defend genocide or human extinction? Or maybe both?
I never paid attention to the newspapers, so I don’t know if it’s always like this.
It's always been thus, siding with the orthdoxy as we slide closee to fascusm all the time.
I did jinx it though, my bad... , thunking Morrison was as bad as it got, before that thinking Abbott was as bad as it giwt, before that Howard was as bad as it got. Niw e look set to have Soud for PM., we're so far down the sewage pipe there's nowhere left to go.
I long ago realised i have little in common with most of my fellow citizens.
Roger Cook says he spoke to ‘highest level’ of federal government to reiterate his view the environment bills in their current form ‘should not be progressed’
Sigh :(
And the signs at aiports saying joking about bombs is illegal ? I can ignore them and crack on with my comedy bomb routine ?
This entire debacle is a farce. How the fuck is the Government and Supreme Court involved in this bullshit , how is this even News.
Good on Rising Tide, another protest at Parliment House
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/rising-tide-protest-arrests-parliament-house/104654756
Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?
The Greens MP points out that where he grew up in West End, Brisbane is now in a part of the city his parents would not be able to afford
>Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?He responds that he has a small, single-income family and gives up about $50,000 from his annual salary to fund a free meal program in his Brisbane electorate. 'Because of that, giving up that money, and being on a single income and in an inner city electorate with a very, very high median house price, it is actually sort of difficult at the moment to buy a house there,' the Greens housing and homelessness spokesperson says.
Well, thank you Max.
This is not new though, Orwell pointed out in 1939 that demcroacies inevitability turn Fascist when times get harder.
Climate change will see that get even worse still.
You'll be able to walk to Russia on the plastic bridge from Alaska, good times ahead!
Can't see how ? Many see immigration as a business thing, seeing people as a utility, let in well educated people who can nation build or some such justification to exploit others.
Many see it as protecting their "way of life", see the same thing around housing with NIMBYism, "I'm here fuck anyone else", bizzarely, recent immigrants seem the worst in that respect
Many are just outright (or covert) racist.
Some weirdos like me are complelty open border.
There's little in common with any of them aside from dislike for the other groups, aside from then all loathing my stance which seems the uniting factor :)
There are no nations, there's only Humanity, but if we don't understand this soon there will be no nations, because there will be no Humanity" - Isaac Asimov.
Def getting one. Si far give kept uo to date with boosters. A vairiety of Moderna ans Pfizer swirling around in me.
Well yeah but i find it "interesting" that our poltical reaponse to defence seems to be big bad toys, 1/2 of which never seem to work or we have zero ability to service in a time if war, then we can't trasport them on our roads as they're too heavy (Abrams Tanks) becase we have no rail.infrstruxture. Ukraine woukd be finished without their rail.
For the reasons you point out, there are only two nations in the world that could prosecute a war on the other side of the planet, China and the US. We have defences against neither and cant not offer ofrence against either, so at the end if the day I'm not sure why we even bother? Personally I'd be more worried about a US invasion,which they defaxto done but at least with China we'd end up with a decent railway system and better food.
Particularly after watching thr war in Ukraine unfold, everything we do in Aus. in terms if defence seeens laughable. One manufacturing facility for artillery for example. Finland seems to actually take it seriously, sure they've had war at their door in the past but so have we..
Queensland whooping cough vaccine numbers down in pregnant women amid huge surge in cases - ABC News
Data shows 37 babies under six months have been admitted to Queensland hospitals with whooping cough in 2024, compared to just 14 in all of 2023.
>Queensland Health communicable diseases branch executive director Heidi Carroll said the disease could be life threatening in babies.
>"They cough so much that they can't catch their breath. They then can't get enough oxygen into their systems," Dr Carroll said.
Well, that sucks :(
Fucks sake, the only thing saving the GBR is a maasive reduction in GHG emissons and quickly
This is some Utopia level shit.
I know it's politically impossible unless voters pivot Green but it's all very depressing reading.
Any points raised there about no more governemnt funding for roads and airports? PT and AT projects only, no talks on restrictng flying using rationing and 10% reductions per annum? no talks on banning; private jets, cruise ships, Off road motorbikes, Banning Pleasure craft ? Gold Coast Cruise ship terminal likely to be built as another slap in the face. Gold Coast is the most vulnerable city in Aus from SLR, fuck it, just ignore it all I guess?
What a terrible thing to read, all about business and how to keep destroying the world as though the laws of nature don't apply in Australia. All some desperate attempt to kick the can down the road.
Down the road from where I live now, a government funded expansion of foresty product loader at Bell Bay, more trucks on the roads more forests logged, more destruction wrought. This is the future, until there is none.
https://slrpnk.net/post/15503380
One of those arrested posted in that thread
Many years ago, making a sandwich, dude says he needs to piss, i apologise say theres no toilets, he says no worries, pulls his dick out and pisses right there.
Climate change, looking more likely to collapse civilisation, so what do we do? side line green politcans, arrest climate change protestors and keep destroying the world.
The world will continue to be absurd, but you, with all your passion, can still make your corner of it more bearable
Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour
Whike this is for Finland I often wonder why Australia doesn't do such a thing? (That's not an argument for or against doing it but a genuine question)
If the LNP/ALP are so concered about an invasion by China that they'll bankrupt the nation to buy a few token nuclear submarines.it seems beyond bizzare to me that the sort of preparedness in the article is not prioritised as well? Or is it becase the submarine thing is all dick waving and posturing for votes and has little to do with actual national defence ?
Vice-president Sara Duterte tells press conference she has given an assassin the instructions, prompting referral from Marcos’s office over ‘active threat’
Floodwaters reaching more than four meters high swamped thousands of houses in the storm-battered northern Philippines on Tuesday after rivers overflowed following heavy rain and a dam release.
>More than a million people fled their homes ahead of Man-yi, which struck the Philippines as a super typhoon before significantly weakening as it swept over the mountains of the main island of Luzon.
>Man-yi dumped heavy rain, smashed flimsy buildings, knocked out power and claimed at least eight lives.
>Climate change is increasing the intensity of storms, leading to heavier rains, flash floods and stronger gusts.
Marine scientists say one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral after bleaching event
>Reefs across the north of the Great Barrier Reef have seen “substantial losses” of coral cover after a summer of extreme heat, two cyclones and major flooding, according to the first results of surveys from government marine scientists.
>After the most widespread coral bleaching event seen on the world’s biggest reef system, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral – the biggest annual drop in 39 years of monitoring.
I nean it could be worse, we could know and not be doing anything...oh /s
>“It was pretty sobering,” he said. “Probably the worst single impact I have seen in 30 years. We saw dead standing coral colonies and the whole scene was a drab brown mess. As far as the eye could see was corals covered in algae.”
Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
In a world of online outrage, evidence is no longer enough – for a policy to work, politicians must explain it and stick by it, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
>I still can’t quite get over the fact that a scheme designed to save the lives of children became the latest culture war battlefield.
>not even counting the long-term savings to the NHS from people taking up cycling or walking instead of driving, or the savings for many Welsh drivers caused by the reduction in their insurance premiums
Not sure if it belongs here but I thought it showed how hard it is to even change small things.
>So why all the outrage? Well, it turns out that much of it was manufactured. In January of this year I did a little digging through four of the main Facebook groups opposing the change to 20mph in Wales. I found that in each case one of the admins was a Tory councillor from Sunderland who has, and this is hilarious, campaigned to have 20mph limits in parts of his home town.
Conservative politican scum baggery ?
>Ultimately, the 20mph change was an attempt to rebalance the communities in which we live, so they are no longer dominated by cars. The policy aims to make our neighbourhoods more livable (20mph is three decibels lower than 30mph). It has a positive impact on particulate pollution because cars have to brake less. And it clearly saves lives.
Agency hopes tens of thousands of people will log details of their flatulence on an app to help researchers better understand gut health
Finnaly I have something to offer my country!
A new study led by an international team of scientists highlights tire particles (TPs) as the leading contributor to microplastics and calls for urgent, targeted research to address their unique environmental and health risks.
>A new study led by an international team of scientists highlights tire particles (TPs) as the leading contributor to microplastics and calls for urgent, targeted research to address their unique environmental and health risks.
>Accounting for nearly one-third of all microplastics,
Russian Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning ‘Childfree Propaganda’ -
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a controversial bill outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” as authorities ramp up efforts to both increase birth rates and promote “traditional values” among families.
Welp, will they come after this Lemmy sub? /s
Following on from this post
https://slrpnk.net/post/14377077
Plans to extend anti-protest laws in NSW labelled 'a rampage against free speech' by climate activists - ABC News
The NSW government is introducing legislation to expand laws that stop protesters blocking roads, bridges and ports in NSW to include railway lines. The laws would carry a maximum fine of $22,000.
Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off
Central Queensland has become a koala refuge. But heavy traffic on one highway is threatening a vital population of these threatened marsupials
Elderly woman appeals licence suspension after incurring hundreds of penalty points in driving tests
An elderly woman loses an appeal to get her driver's licence back after failing two driving tests, including one where she amassed 182 penalty points — 160 more than a fail mark.
>In the woman's first driving test, in July 2023, the assessor noted she breached the road rules multiple times including by continuously driving in a bike lane, failing to give way, braking to a near stop in a 70km/h zone and obstructing other vehicles and driving at 38km/h in a 60 km/h zone.
>The decision noted the assessor had intervened when the woman started to turn in front of approaching vehicles without sufficient time or distance, and when she failed to give way as she moved off from a kerb.
She still thought she was hard done by and appealed?