12 quotes that explain how we got here
According to the national climate risk assessment published in the beginning of this month, Australia is expected to be exposed to more frequent and severe floods, cyclones, heat waves, droughts and forest fires.
Today, Environmental Minister Murray Watt turned out to be the approval of Woodsyide to continue operating the North West Shelf Facilities in Western Australia. 40 more yearsAlthough he knows that the Burup Peninsula is scientific evidence that he is exposed to industrial emissions that can accelerate the deterioration of 50,000 -year -old domestic rock art. In addition, Watt said that Woodsyide’s first requirements would have “important negative operational results” and diluted the approval requirements.
How is the discrete between what we know and what we do when it comes to climate? In the first of a new series, Crirase It collects 12 sounds about climate change to explain how we understand where we are.
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Excessive events will affect some communities more than others. High -risk communities can disrupt local economies, social networks, traditional identities and cultural heritage, which will experience domestic migration.
The increase in risks in a system is likely to have a fluctuation effect between sectors, services and structures. Excessive events, especially in vulnerable coastal areas against maritime level rise and erosion, will lead to property damage, increasing insurance costs, and even home loss. These effects will contribute to the cost of living by putting more stress on household budgets.
Australians will be affected by the loss of important ecosystems and species in the middle of the century without direct intervention and adaptation actions. Ecosystems regulate food safety through clean air and water, pollination, raw materials for drugs, natural disaster protection and local climate. Australia’s plants and animals developed to meet local climatic conditions.
More often and more intensely excessive events will affect the lifestyle in different ways throughout Australia – from influences to sports and recreation, unreliable infrastructure like energy sources during heat waves. There will be additional pressure on emergency intervention teams and defense sources. Increased violent floods and forest fires will disrupt the water quality by pressure on limited water resources.
Australia National Climate Risk Assessment2025
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The history of life on earth has been the history of interaction between living things and its surroundings. To a large extent, the physical forms and habits of the Earth’s vegetation and animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the entire duration of the worldly time, the opposite effect on which life actually changes its environment has been relatively mild. There is only one species in the time of this century – the man – has gained significant power to change the nature of his world.
… As a man progresses towards his goal explained by the conquest of nature, he writes a depressing destruction record – the collapse of the world in which he lives and the destruction of the life that shares it with him. There are black passages in the history of the last century – Buffalo’s massacre in the western plains, the massacre of coastal birds by the market artillery, and the close destroying the feathers of their feathers. Now we add a new section to others, like them – all kinds of wildlife with chemical insecticides sprayed without discrimination of birds, mammals, fish, and indeed, indeed.
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He was concerned that some human activities could change global climatic models, and that existing and future generations could potentially threaten the existing and future generations with severe economic and social consequences. It points out that the growth in the atmospheric concentrations of the ‘greenhouse’ gases show that continuous growth can be heated globally at sea levels, and their effects may be disaster for humanity if they are not thrown at any level in time …
UN resolutionDecember 1988
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Humanity suddenly entered into a whole new relationship with the planet Earth. The forests of the world are being destroyed; A tremendous hole drills in the ozone layer. Living species die at an unprecedented rate. In growing volumes, chemical wastes leak down to poison the groundwater, while large amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofloorocarbons capture heat in the atmosphere and increase global temperatures.
How much information is needed by the human mind to get to know a model? How much more is needed to justify the action in response by body policy?
Then take senator, Washington PostMay 1989
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Now what we do to the world… New in the world experience. It is humanity and activities that change the environment of our planet in harmful and dangerous ways. As a result, the future change is likely to be more basic and more common than anything we have ever known. Change the sea around us, go to the atmosphere above, lead to change in the world climate in turn, which can change our way of life in the most basic way.
Environmental challenge that confronts the whole world requires an equivalent response from all over the world. Every country will be affected and no one can come into play. Industrialized countries should contribute more to help those who do not.
Then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Address to the UN General AssemblyNovember 1989
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Voters believe that there is no consensus on global warming in the science community. If the public believes that scientific problems have been solved, their views on global warming will change accordingly.
Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty into a primary issue in discussion.
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For the prophets of the gloom, coal -fired power plants are an article of green belief that the world changes for the worse of the climate of the world because the electrical power plants pumps greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Although environmental activists show that science is responsible for a global warming crisis that may be correct, they may be equally wrong.
Editorial, AustraliaJanuary 2006 (as collected Bad newsRobert Manne)
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If only 50% of climatic scientists had accepted the greenhouse gas theory of global warming, it would still be cautious to continue to remove greenhouse gas emissions. It is quite simple, very dangerous-there is no less than the future prosperity of the world. Nevertheless, all people with real understanding – climatic scientists – primarily accept that people put the world at risk, with the constant burning of fossil fuels. Moreover, there is no reasonable alternative theory among these scientists to explain global warming. Two studies have been conducted to evaluate the magnitude of the scientific majority that accepts and understands the reality of the disaster, causing global warming through greenhouse gas hypothesis. Both studies came to the same figure. Ninety -seven percent.
Robert Manne, Monthly2011
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… Every super -charged natural disaster produces the instant images of an irony loaded with an increasingly unfavorable climate for the most responsible industries for its heating. Like the 2013 historical floods in Calgary, a railway bridge with a railway bridge with a railway bridge with a flammable petroleum products, while forcing the chief offices of oil companies to send their employees to the house and carries flammable petroleum products. Or a year ago, the drought hit the Mississippi River, pushing the water levels so low, oil and coal -laden barrels could not move for days, army engineers expect the units of the units to scan a channel (appropriate funds allocated to rebuild the previous year’s historical waterways).
Naomi Klein, This changes everything2014
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Our mafia seems to have been connecting land and economic justice for a long time and caught in the climate movement. After many years, after a single number of campaigns, people open the systemic change on the scale to address the crisis that meets us. Green new agreement campaign – a wide change in the economy to create clean, green jobs and end our dependence on fossil fuels, Here he proved to be attractive for many people in the environmental movement. However, they continue to come to us with predetermined solutions instead of looking at those who have repeatedly adapted to climate change for thousands of years on this continent for centuries for centuries. What gives the colonists giving moral authority to necessitate solutions when the colonization they use is a main reason for the problem of colonization?
Climate change offers a unique opportunity to re -focus society more fair, more compassionate and less exploitative and greed. In domestic information systems, we will find the plan to build that society and in the domestic struggle we found to dismantle the unsuccessful system given to us.
Philip Marrii Winzer, Black2019
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Rupert Murdoch is suffering from extraordinarily. It has a tremendous responsibility for the lack of action of the world’s climate change. Their exits actively encouraged the skepticism that weakened the need to act on climatic science.
Professor Lesley Hughes, Member of Climate Change Authority, 2023
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Avoiding climate news can be seen as part of the increasing tendency to avoid news between the Australians. The audience, who is overwhelmed by the emotional boredom that they can cause a lot of information and news, control less with news sources. According to a report about media consumption, Canberra University Last year, approximately 69% of the Australians shifted past news stories on social media, changing the channel on their TVs when it arrives, or giving priority to activities that minimize the risk of being confronted with any news.
Elfy Scott, Crirase2024
