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Category Archives: Democracy and global warming policies
A life half lived
By Andrew L. Urban “….the rigid orthodoxy of modern environmentalism” is the phrase that jumped out when I read Robert Stone’s Director’s Statement prior to the Australian release of his Sundance-selected doco, Pandora’s Promise. (It will have a few cinema … Continue reading
Beyond abatement: democratising climate policy
By Andrew L. Urban This paper was submitted to the incoming Coalition Government via Prime Minister Tony Abbott MP, and others, on September 18, 2013. “The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good … Continue reading
Climate: a change needed
By Andrew L. Urban Climate change has changed an entire generation’s thinking; it has been framed (by both Al Gore in the US and Kevin Rudd in Australia) as a moral challenge, one that must be addressed by drastically cutting emissions … Continue reading
What is really galling about global warming
By Andrew L. Urban “My objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance … Continue reading
Democracy in the carbon sandwich
By Andrew L. Urban [Elements of this paper form a submission to the Australian Select Senate Committee on the Scrutiny of New Taxes, August 15, 2011.] In the interests of democracy,Australiashould re-frame the discussion on climate policy as … Continue reading