Well, Earth Hour came and just went, and let's just say that my light and two computers stayed very firmly onI'm a Greens voter. I take climate change very seriously. And I think this Earth Hour was laughably useless. What does it achieve? Less than nothing. In the first place, the power is still being generated, and it is roughly equivalent ( Read more... )

I would like to address climate change, as I do not think I have ever touched on it in this blog. Honestly, I perceive that as a terrible failing, but it's not due to a lack of effort; I have tried to write more than once on the topic but scrapped the entries due to being excessively vitriolic and inflammatory. Accordingly, I will not actually ( Read more... )

Well, for the first time in my entire life, I'm proud of the government of the country in which I live. Kevin Rudd was sworn in as Australian Prime Minister yesterday. His first action? Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol ( Read more... )