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Lizz from Wild Mountains chats with Geoff, Dave and Issy about her 6,000km (is that 6Mm?) trek from the Border Ranges on the East Coust, to the Ningaloo Reef on the West Coast to connect communities to nature.
There is a launch event at Griffith University’s EcoCentre on January 25th, and more information at #trek2reconnect or https://wildmountains.org
You can listen to the interview on Soundcloud
Geoff Interviews Professor Sarah Pink about her latest book, Life at the Edge of the Future.
The premise is that we are always at the Edge of the Future, change is uncertain, unpredictable and so we cannot examine it as we examine the past. Instead, as an anthropologist Professor Pink describes herself as being in research. She says that the hope and trust that enables a positive future emerges from our everyday use of emerging technology, not from the technology itself.
The interview falls into four parts. Hope, Trust, Process and Inclusion.
A short version of the interview will be played on 4ZZZs EcoRadio, next Wednesday.
Click on individual tracks to focus on a specific part of the Interview.
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink
Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner
Predictions that the Global North would cynically turn its back on Climate refugees as drought, heatwaves and floods decimate the population of the Global South this week appear both reasonable and prescient. As I write this in my comfortable home in the pleasant evening of an Australian spring with a belly full of warm soup, 30 million Pakistanis seek shelter from 35 degree heat and 66% humidity without roads, rooves, freshwater or sanitation. The thousand people who have died during 8 weeks of torrential down pour now confront thirst, starvation and disease and, those who survive, a daunting rebuilding operation that affects literally millions of devastated homes, and thousands of kilometres of road. In addition, a sizable fraction of the nation’s infrastructure has been torn asunder as glacial lakes burst out of their mountain strongholds and joined the petalitres of water that has fallen from eight separate monsoon events far into the northern regions of the Indus valley.
Read the rest at GeoffEbbs.com or hear it on SoundCloud
Howard Whelan is an Antarctic Tour Guide and past editor of Australian Geographic. He put together this sound package with Geoff Ebbs over a number of shows.
The big wet has Brisbane renters tearing apart sharehouses, burning leather clothing and scrubbing walls with clove and tea tree oil, mixed with vinegar and warm water in a battle with an unwanted, microbial, housemate; mould.
Christine Schindler wrote in Westender last week “The mould ripened, it invited friends and propagated indiscriminately on brick and wood. An odd smell led to bigger questions, who’s responsible – the landlord or tenant?” Tenants Queensland and the Rental Tenancies Authority conclude that that depends, and the widespread and insistent nature of the problem forces tenants to clean up the effects, even if the landlord is responsible for the causes.
Schindler’s recipe? “Dry the place out by creating a well-ventilated space, then add a bucket full of sunshine and not a drop of moisture. Unfortunately, Bunnings does not sell these things.”
Trimmed, with permission, from https://westender.com.au/mould-the-new-housemate/
Professor Jeffrey Sachs addressed NATO this month, begging European nations not to blindly follow the US into a global war with China and Russia. He says US is no longer a global leader, and is in denial about this, leading the West into a dangerous and futile global war. He points out that successive US presidents expanded NATO despite warnings by European and US diplomats that it would inevitably lead to war. <snip> He also spent much of the last two years investigating the sources of CoViD and believes it escaped US biotech laboratory though this is not yet proven. Jeffrey Sachs is adviser to the UN on the Sustainable Development Goals and professor of economics at the Columbia University.
Jeffrey Sachs started his speech by saying, we are in a mess. A real mess, and we show no signs of getting ourselves out of it. He then rattled off the list of mistakes that we have made in recent years that have brought western economies crashing down and plunged Africa and South America into chaos. His point that US insistence that the world follow its policies is a major part of the problem and, unless we wake up, and start working cooperatively with China and Russia, it will continue to get worse, not better. I have posted a link to his speech on the 4zzzecoradio socials and to Ecoradio.net. Watch it and weep. It makes perfect sense and we have to convince our government to decouple from the US madness and seriously work toward a sustainable future. The alternative is unthinkable.