Category: Environment

Environmental Protest: Bob Brown wins in Australia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-28

May 5, 2022

Environment activists and watchers will be detaching themselves briefly from their various points of resistance to observe the implications of a High Court decision in Australia that was handed down last week.  The decision found that various anti-protest provisions of the Tasmanian parliament found in the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act 2014 were invalid.[1] The … More Environmental Protest: Bob Brown wins in Australia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-28

A Matter of Fifty Degrees: Climate Change in Australia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-24

May 5, 2022

A country baked to the core, its citizens roasted, an electricity grid battered to its limits.  Capital cities trapping scorching heat, toasting its citizens and assaulting the young, the elderly, the infirm with temperature fluctuations.  This is the vision of Australia by the end of this century according to an Australian National University study released … More A Matter of Fifty Degrees: Climate Change in Australia by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-24

Protesting Against Adani: The National Day of Action by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-11

May 4, 2022

“Be careful, you might get run over.”  So squawks an administrator from the local RMIT University as she dashes towards Princess Park, Melbourne. The need for this jet propulsion enthusiasm is clear: a gathering is being organised in the park, amongst other venues, in a national day of action. The bogeyman? The Indian monster mining … More Protesting Against Adani: The National Day of Action by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-10-11

Energy Chaos in Australia: Closing the Liddell Power Station by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-20

May 4, 2022

Australia is having an energy crisis.  A country with such abundant resources is incapable it seems, of handling matters of reliable supply, either in terms of affordability, or in terms of delivery.  The situation has been further muddied by the inability of the parties in parliament to find common ground.  The gloves are off, and … More Energy Chaos in Australia: Closing the Liddell Power Station by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-20

Shooting at Hurricane Irma: The Seriousness of Humour by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-12

May 4, 2022

It has all the ingredients of screwball stand up comedy, the necessary corrective to end-of-the-world scenarios.  “And there she was, Irma, blowing herself through the room… And I shot her.” But humour is in scant supply for authorities who have been paying attention to the relentless movements of Hurricane Irma.  Irma, who sounds like a … More Shooting at Hurricane Irma: The Seriousness of Humour by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-12

An Urgent Report from Miami on Hurricane Irma by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-09-12

May 4, 2022

The attentive reader will have surely noticed that one of my most passionate intellectual concerns, dealt with in my contributions to Ovi magazine, over a span of some ten years, is that of “the nexus between religion and democracy,” or more generally, religion and politics. I am pleased to announce to the readership interested in … More An Urgent Report from Miami on Hurricane Irma by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-09-12

The Myth of the Liveable City by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-05

May 3, 2022

In 2016, the Melbourne-based Herald Sun claimed with some consternation that Melbourne was “set to lose its status as the world’s most liveable city.”  That particular, somewhat meaningless status is granted by that great myth maker, the Economist Intelligence Unit, whose Global Liveability Index tends to deceive rather than illuminate. Not that the Herald needed … More The Myth of the Liveable City by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-05

Resting Sea Shepherd: A Pause in the Whale War Saga by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-04

May 3, 2022

What a colourful run this outfit has had. Branded in 2013 by Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as pirates, the Sea Shepherd crew will be hanging up their hooks while rethinking their whale protection strategy.  Their long designated enemy, the Japanese whaling fleet, will be given some … More Resting Sea Shepherd: A Pause in the Whale War Saga by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-09-04