Age: AUSTRALIA’S debt-laden consumers and companies cheered this week’s lower inflation figures, which signalled the threat of another interest rate rise had receded. What may well be of far greater long-term concern to all of us, though, is how – and at what cost – we adjust to an economy where the cost of burning fossil fuels starts to include the damage it does to the planet. The United Nations will this week release its latest five-year report on climate change. It confirms that …
Australia: Carbon dating
Age: AUSTRALIA’S debt-laden consumers and companies cheered this week’s lower inflation figures, which signalled the threat of another interest rate rise had receded. What may well be of far greater long-term concern to all of us, though, is how – and at what cost – we adjust to an economy where the cost of burning fossil fuels starts to include the damage it does to the planet. The United Nations will this week release its latest five-year report on climate change. It confirms that …
Original post by GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry)