Kamala Emanuel

Epitaph: for the well-springs of climate change

Rest in peace, carbon profits, bathed in blood. Before you drown us in your flood, we will rise to bury you. Tremble in fear, carbon merchants, profiteers. You refuse to lift Earth's shroud, your carbon mushroom cloud. A people's fire

A blistering critique of climate change politics

Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)

The dirty politics of climate change

“We know more about energy policy than the government does … We know where every skeleton in the closet is — most of them we buried”, boasted a member of the self-described “greenhouse mafia”, a group of lobbyists comprising the executive directors of the coal, oil, cement, aluminium, mining and electricity industries, said Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australia Institute.

Antiwar movement in Launceston defiant

A defiant 300-400 people rallied and marched in Launceston on March 22 against war on Iraq, despite media attempts to portray protesting now the war has begun as futile. United Nations Association President Margaret