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  • The Australian Pavillion was a fantastic hub last year for interesting and important conversations regarding climate change

    Like why is hypocrisy the backbone of all climate talks ? Why are we a nation of climate deniers ? Perhaps a stand with sack cloth and ash for all attmedees to stand in and be caned and berbakky disparaged becase of our inaction ?

    Imagine flying across the world to a conference about lowering carbon emissions…it’s like beating your partner on the way to a domestic violence conference. The assumption was it is a conference about how to stop domestic violence, or in this case climate change, not make it worse.

    Emissions are going up. We already know what needs to be done; ban flying, ban private car ownership, build out public and alternate transport, ban land learing, ban urban sprawl, ban meat eating pet ownership, ban all advertising and crimalise being a billionare and thats the easy low hanging fruit before the harder choices need to be made but apparently riding a bicycle to the park to read a book, instead of flying to Bali to do the same and haveing a livable biosphere, is just too much to ask








  • We lived off grid in the bush here in Australia on Northern NSW for a decade with a 2kW solar system and batteries, never had an issue, ran everything (computer, kettle, microwave, welder, induction cooktop etc) except for the oven. We left in 2020 because of climate chanhe making bushfires worse and have now moved to Tasmania, off a flood plain, 270m ASL, and zero bush fire risk.

    We now have a small cottage on a hectare, on the edge of small village, we have 8kW solar here (so far south solar in winter is an issue) , the excess goes into the grid for which we are paid a small amount and we now have an ecar we need for very occasioanl use (mostly use our ebikes amd walk) , all charged off solar.