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Europe's ethical eggs-ample
By Peter Singer FORTY YEARS AGO, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford Street, London handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery...
Nuclear apologists play shoot the messenger on radiation
Twenty-five years after Chernobyl, many billions of dollars are at stake if the Fukushima reactor meltdowns cause the so-called "atomic...
Keeping the poor in the dark
New World Bank rules restricting support for coal-fired power stations will confine millions to poverty. According to a report in yesterday’s...
Goodwill and a concerted national effort needed
The year 1864, just five years after Queensland separated from NSW, was a particularly difficult year for the fledgling state. Severe flooding...
How dams became a dirty word
The 1m difference between Brisbane's 1974 local flood peak height of 5.5m and Thursday morning's peak of 4.5m can partly be credited to the Wivenhoe...
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
When Mark Twain uttered his memorable phrase, the science of statistics was in its infancy, and he could not have anticipated that statistics and...
Has Brisbane forgotten to build for the wet?
There's a myth that you often hear about old Brisbane houses, that they were built on stilts for ventilation, so that air could swirl under them in...
Wild rivers a cage for Aborigines
''With the natives we are hand in glove. They throng the camp every day, and sometimes by their clamour and importunity for bread and meat (of which...
Addicted to oil? What a dumb idea
The oil-addiction theorists are really disgusted by the desires of stupid, greedy, uppity consumers. Printer-friendly version Email-a-friend Respond...
Oil spill gutting confidence - and staining reputations
In the US, which assumes no engineering challenge is beyond conquer - nor does it lack the private capital to achieve it - the brackish rouge beneath...
Let’s put the Gulf-spill crisis into perspective
To stop using fossil fuels because of one accident would make millions of people’s lives a lot harder. ‘This is probably the biggest...
The low Horizons of modern society
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad, but it is not a warning from nature about mankind's hubris. An accident on an oil rig in the Gulf of...
Why scepticism is still ‘the highest of duties’
Scepticism is widely denounced as a poison and a disease today, just as it was in the Dark Ages. We urgently need to rescue its reputation. Over...
Only a carbon tax and nuclear power can save us
Australia will suffer if fossil fuel use continues unabated. Climate extremes will increase. Poleward expansion of the subtropics will make Australia...
Poverty is not passe, and development is not a dirty word
Colonialism, the independence of nations and the development decades are words rarely heard nowadays. They were commonplace around the middle of the...
Anti-whaling activists 'imperil crew'
Anti-whaling activists on the Sea Shepherd are renowned for operating on the outer edge of the law, endangering the lives of their crew, and could be...
A clean and green way to fuel the nation
Critics point to a long list of unresolved concerns with nuclear power and do so with sufficient zeal to unsettle people who are trying to reach an...
Rich-poor deadlock in Copenhagen
Developed nations are trying to water down their emission commitments – no wonder the rest of the world is angry. Entering its second week,...
‘We need a planetary one-child policy’
Malthusianism is so widespread that greens can now openly sing the praises of China’s population authoritarianism. It is testament to the...
It’s the end of the world – again
Environmentalists claiming that the Copenhagen summit is ‘the last chance’ to save the planet sound like a broken record. From crusty...
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