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Coal pile to the moon

To the moon, with plenty left over. That’s how far the coal mined from the Hunter Valley in NSW during the decade up to 2010 would have reached, if it had been stacked into a two-square-metre pillar. I did that calculation when I was working as a reporter at The Newcastle Herald, the newspaper serving the city of Newcastle. Newcastle is the second city of NSW and lies at the mouth of the Hunter Valley. It is often reputed to be the world’s largest coal port, in terms of volume. My figures didn’t count the coal…

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Australia’s bushfire revelation

The spring 2019 bushfire emergency in Australia has been a revelation to many people.Questions that had seemed in doubt have been clarified, and things that had been ill-defined have now been shown in their true light. The first and most obvious is climate change. Vast efforts have been made in Australia (as they have all over the world) to cast doubt over the science of climate change. Those with huge commercial interests in fossil fuels have invested fortunes in protecting their status quo, working simultaneously from many directions. They have sponsored the promotion of alternative views,…

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Young people are right to be anxious

“I want children growing up in Australia to feel positive about their future, and I think it is important we give them that confidence that they will not only have a wonderful country and pristine environment to live in, that they will also have an economy to live in as well. I don’t want our children to have anxieties about these issues.” Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, urging young Australians to stop worrying about climate change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the Australian government wants its young citizens to feel positive about the government’s approach to the environment…

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