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2 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Albanese government eager to support WA’s gas addiction. Tasmania’s natural environment trashed by deer and loggers. Globally, one square kilometre of trees cleared every 10 minutes. Ecological and spiritual values converge in Chinese temples. WA’s gas addiction …… or rather income addiction. Over the 15 years to 2023, the consumption of gas in Australia’s states and territories remained remarkably constant, except for WA.
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3 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
An Australian rodent was the first mammal to be driven to extinction by climate change. Renewables will supply almost all of global electricity’s 4% per year growth. Four personal behaviour changes could remove much of the average person’s carbon footprint. About 25% of all animal species are currently considered to be at risk of extinction – 39 species are extinct in the wild. Internationally, 71,000 animal species have been assessed for their vulnerability to extinction.
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4 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Human activities are pushing many freshwater fish toward extinction globally and in Australia. The world’s grasslands contain enormous biodiversity, support more than a billion people and mitigate climate change, but are disappearing. Can holistic conservation restore complex ecosystems?
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Dissent and protest are under attack across Australia. Thawing permafrost is a problem for everyone, not just Arctic-dwellers. LNG produces more emissions than coal, oil or gaseous natural gas. Renewables rollouts are up, but so are energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Defending dissent and protestGovernments across Australia are cracking down on dissent.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions is dangerously slow, but doing it in a fair, just and inclusive manner is all but non-existent. Climate change’s many harmful outcomes for women and girls includes more child marriages. Fishing doesn’t have to kill mammals and birds. What is a just transition? Is anyone doing it? “A 'just transition' refers to addressing climate change in a fair, just and inclusive manner.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
The world is getting hotter, seas are rising more quickly, oceans are heating faster and freshwater is getting saltier, but Labor’s first-term environmental performance provides little optimism for its second, even though Australia leads the way with solar energy generation.
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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Australia’s exported coal and LNG produce three times more emissions than 27 million Australians. The US wastes prime agricultural land to inefficiently produce energy for cars. Shed snake skin protects young birds. Kosciuszko benefitting from fewer feral horses. Australia’s exported fossil fuel emissions overwhelm our domestic emissionsIn 1990, the generated from the fossil fuels (mainly coal) that we exported were roughly half of Australia’s total domestic emissions.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
The sham of biodiversity offsets for coal mining. Will the climate benefit if Australia hosts the COP in 2026? Albanese further weakens Australia’s outdated environmental protection laws. Biodiversity offsets shamIn February I took the day-long train journey to Narrabri, 500 km north-west of Sydney, for the Biodiversity Offsets. Problems and Consequences conference. Narrabri is close to the Leard State Forest’s critically endangered White box-gum woodland.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Parasites need our help, not our disgust. Electricity usage increases with the temperature, but the price falls as renewables increase. Cyanobacteria’s sliding door moment. Parasites need conserving just as much as their hostsEarlier this month, I was removing some weeds on a Bush Heritage property on the NSW south coast – an area of subtropical rainforest on the escarpment that forms the Great Dividing Range just there.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Peter Sainsbury
Three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions still originate from the burning of fossil fuels in the energy sector. Australia’s legislation regarding environmental destruction is hindering environmental repair. Increasing demand for copper requires more recycling. Greenhouse gases – a (slowly) changing picture You don’t need to know the names of the various greenhouse gases, where they come from or how they work. It’s enough to know just four things:That global warming is real and with us now.
