Edition 12: Hot Air
Climate change is the greatest challenge confronting the world.
Extreme weather events and battles over resources increase a sense of foreboding and highlight the urgent need to find sustainable solutions.
In a remarkable new essay, veteran journalist provides
a new way of thinking about the causes and consequences of climate change. Sayle travels from the monitoring station at Cape Grim through the Tasmanian wilderness and back in time to the Dutch Republic, the creation of capitalism and the origins of the hydrocarbon civilisation. He puts the problem we now face in sharp focus: how to sustain a globally expanding population with finite resources.
Hot Air showcases the key flashpoints in this global debate with erudite essays, insightful analysis and personal reflection. It will challenge the way you think about what is happening and what can be done.
Other writers include:
Robyn Williams, James Woodford, John Kinsella, Phil Brown, Graeme Dobell, Michael Heazle, Chip Rolley, Stephen Muecke, Geoffrey Blainey, Peter Doherty, Ian Lowe, Andrew Belk, Mark Hayes, Creed O'Hanlon, Rosaleen Love, Patrick Holland, Ian Lilley, George Seddon, Robert Milliken, Melissa Lucashenko, Matthew Condon, Heather Kirkpatrick, Peter Meredith.
Jocelyn Carlin's photo essay Legacy captures life on Tuvalu as a record high tide hits.
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Contents
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Introduction
( 1 )
- Masters of the universe: How nigh’s the end? (Edition Introduction) Julianne Schultz
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Essay
( 9 )
- Overloading Emoh Ruo: the rise and rise of hydrocarbon civilisation Murray Sayle
- Sunset ports on the new trade routes Stephen Muecke
- Riding Australia’s big dipper Geoffrey Blainey
- Beyond greed Peter Doherty
- Changing public attitudes to long-term issues Ian Lowe
- Seven-tenths: random notes from the deep Creed O'Hanlon
- Corals under siege Rosaleen Love
- It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it Ian Lilley
- Time, gentlemen, please George Seddon (dec.)
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Reportage
( 5 )
- Knocking on the door James Woodford
- The gang of six lost in Kyotoland Graeme Dobell
- The brown peril Chip Rolley
- We are all Tuvaluans Mark Hayes
- Resource managers, altruists or just farmers? Robert Milliken
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Memoir
( 4 )
- Confessions of a weather nut Phil Brown
- How green is my valley? Melissa Lucashenko
- Return to the river Heather Kirkpatrick
- My ten Cadillacs Peter Meredith
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Policy
( 2 )
- Precautions for the day after tomorrow Michael Heazle
- Claustrophobia Michael Wesley
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Debate
( 2 )
- Fair-weather friends? Robyn Williams
- The echo-chamber Katherine Wilson
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Fiction
( 3 )
- The future from the bottom of a boat Andrew Belk
- Flame bugs on the Sixth Island Patrick Holland
- Downstream Matthew Condon