Latest Update 30th December 2023.
Australia is one of the planet's hot-spots when it comes to climate change. It is the driest occupied continent by far, and sits between equatorial South East Asia, and the cool Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean stretches as far south as the Antarctic continent.
As the earth's land masses, oceans and ice sheets absorb heat, weather systems become more energised, as witnessed in Australia in its summer of 2019/2020.
Unprecedented bush fires raged for months, to be finally extinguished by widespread torrential rain and flooding. These are just symptoms of a deeper and more sinister truth, that if our climate continues to track the changes in CO2 levels in our atmosphere, as it has for at least 800,000 years, we are in for an extraordinarily hard time.
I am not a scientist, but I do have sufficient technical expertise in my background to appreciate the concepts that leading experts in microbiology, soil sciences, environmental sciences, biomedical sciences and natural health sciences are promoting.
Like most people today, I was too busy managing my career and young family to spend time researching areas of concern acquired since reading the Club of Rome's book "The Limits to Growth" published in 1960.
My retirement in 2010 provided the opportunity to study these problems, and I became aware of the growing influence on our lives of the internet, and its ability to facilitate study at the highest level.
I used my time to acquaint myself with the problems of global warming, the deterioration of human health, the obesity epidemic, degradation of agricultural soils, depletion of nutrients in food products, deforestation and many others. Happily, I came across many impressive measures already being taken around the world to combat these issues, which I am sure, if applied promptly at a global level, could save the situation.
Unfortunately, powerful players in commerce and industry and among our political leaders, seem intent on disrupting these efforts in favour of "business as usual". Its up to the ordinary people to support these efforts for the sake of the planet.