Craig Allen’s Recent Comments

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  It's still Spring in Australia and we already have record breaking heat waves in South Australia and New South Wales (yet again). Catastrophic Code Red fire advisories are in force in both states, with 34 fires under way in NSW and 20 in SA. Summer is on the way. God help us all. The big cultural-environmental shift experienced in South-east Australia since last Summer's Victorian fires is the massive amount of vegetation (habitat) clearance that is under-way in conjunction with a big ramp-up in fuel reduction burnoffs on both private and public land. This is being done to reduce fire hazard, but is having the side effect of eliminating many reptile, birds, mammal species etc. from remnant areas of bush on farms, roadsides and anywhere near towns and rural residences. The fires themselves will have removed many species from the last places where they have held out against human, weed, feral predator and stock encroachment. The responses to the fires will amplify this.On Inferno on Earth: Wildfires spreading as temperatures rise posted 1 day, 4 hours ago 1 Response

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  Hieronymus Bosch forsaw it.

  On Global warming, California, and wildfires posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 20 Responses

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  Why not just tax pecticides by the same amount that it will cost to pay for all the necessary filtration? You can't get fairer than that.

  On Water utilities lack proper filters for weed-killer posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  Unfortunately the government has compromised with the opposition by allowing an ammendment stipulating that coal seam gas fired electricity be counted toward the 20% renewable mandate.

  On Australia targets 20 percent renewable energy by 2020 posted 3 months ago 1 Response

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  Hang about! The review does not even mention nitrates. It concludes that conventional foods have a higher nitrogen content. Nitrogen is a component of many classes of organic molecules, including DNA and proteins. You've gone of on a tangent with the nitrates that is not related to the content of the report.

  On The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional posted 3 months, 1 week ago 16 Responses