The Climate Crisis we all feared has started. Most of what you think you know about Global Warming and Climate Change is probably wrong. I offer analysis discussing the MOST current science and information.
Exploring economics, politics, and society through care, reciprocity, sustainability, and justice, challenging power, markets, and orthodoxies to rebuild collective wellbeing.
My Substack is about improving my writing skills, engaging with my community, writing a comment, a story, a poem that might bring a smile, a sigh, or a tear... to someone, somewhere out there.
We the People are the underdogs. The system's rigged. Voting and symbolic protests won't stop the coming crises. We need boots on the ground—people like you building That Better World, community by community. It starts here.
D.Phil in physics at York, 1968-71, funded by UKAEA; lecturer in Faculty of Technology at Open University 1971-80; Griffith Uni (Australia) since then, now emeritus professor in School of Environment and Science.
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Paleontology, ecology, and climate change. We explore Earth’s deep past to understand today’s crises. From mass extinctions to modern ecosystems, we turn complex science into human stories—linking ancient shifts to our future on a changing planet
The most up-to-date information on the unavoidable global public health crisis we are all living in: experienced scientists discuss with readers what research is showing, what to expect, and how to be empowered to cope with the coming changes.
A collection of writings concerned with the need, philosophies and practicalities of degrowth, with particular emphasis on Central Victoria, Australia, but with relevance to, and sometimes contributions from, the World.