Dr Joëlle Gergis - Highway to Hell | Australia's Biggest Book Club

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Dr Joëlle Gergis - Highway to Hell | Australia's Biggest Book Club

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Highway to Hell, the Quarterly Essay by Joëlle Gergis, is Australia’s Biggest Book Club book for June 2024.
Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country?
In ‘Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future’, leading climate scientist Joëlle Gergis takes aim at the folly of “adaptation” rather than cutting emissions, and at government policy inertia. She shows what rising temperatures will most likely mean for the Australian continent and coastline, and outlines clearly how far Australia is from its most recent promises, let alone what is required.
Dr Joëlle Gergis, the Australia Institute Writer in Residence for 2024, joined Polly Hemming, Director of the Australia Institute’s Climate and Energy program, for an in-depth conversation on her searing essay.
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@frannypeony2076 Ай бұрын

Yes Joëlle IS incredible!!! Thanks to all involved for this presentation. Another great video to watch is from the Eye of the Storm YT channel where Raoul Martinez & Yanis Varoufakis discuss a world beyond Capitalism with Jason Hickel. ☮️💟

@PeterTodd Ай бұрын

+1 for Eye of the Storm - very interesting and enlightening conversations

@gregcurran4055 Ай бұрын

If we are realistic, people are irrational. Today, people are more self-interested, insular, opinionated and even narcissistic than "before". And it's difficult to work with people like that. Sadly governments are elected by people like that. Not like Joelle nor those from the Australia Institute. Australia is just as prone to what is happening in US France and Italy. But tomorrow should show us how people respond to being duped and mislead (badly) by "populists": Farage and Boris. Perhaps it might be worth putting doubt in people's minds about their own infallibility and that of who they listen to. "What are you really gambling?" And so on. Good job Joelle. Read your book. Top drawer.

@stl1321 Ай бұрын

It's not a conversation, it's a mass extinction event.

@h2rider953 Ай бұрын

Carbon Tax, stop new coal and gas projects.

@h2rider953 Ай бұрын

Can't burn our way of the Climate Crisis.

@tomstruct Ай бұрын

Thanks aus inst & Joelle

@davidwilkie9551 Ай бұрын

Bravery is a core theme in parts of Australia that were above the Brisbane Line and close to the New Guinea Campaign. When the real enemy is so clearly self defined and the standard of defense is always set by the VCs, the infiltration and elimination of our democracy is almost impossible to tolerate. (Julian's approach is unsurprising to Australians, but fighting fire with fire is the road to annihilation)

@davidwilkie9551 Ай бұрын

Excellent intro. Sciencing is policy by default, so conscious awareness of real-time Actuality is emulation of functional content of inside-outside holographic relative-timing nucleation. On its own, "Nuclear" is a misattribution of the properties of time-timing sync-duration identification conglomerations that are nodal-vibrational emitter-receiver log-antilog inclusion-exclusion chemistry of dominant differentiates. This is the inside-outside difficulty of reducing complex functions to approximate abstractions, and the old magical-functional Metaphysics of essential qualities has been deconstructed, cut to waste, because "Precision is not Accuracy", the converse is condensed log-antilog coordination, trancendental pure-math motion-potential, locates Singularity-point positioning universally. The superficiality of perfunctory politics is destroying civilization, one planet at a time, on location.

@JaseboMonkeyRex Ай бұрын

it would be hard to disagree with the conclusions drawn in this essay... but my concerns about renewables and firming is the lack of sober thinking about the assumptions of the material cycles intrinsic to the batteries in supporting the grid - i am concerned that the thinking in the AEMO plan hasn't been thoughly thought through- for instance, are we absolutely sure that 12 hours of storgage across the NEM is enough to keep the lights on? if it isn't what should be the minimum firming capacity be? and then once agreed , the material cycles of the batteries to meet that volume over 3 or 4 lifescycles? and then add the assumed growth in energy out to 2050. and how can it continue to be unchallenged the assumptions of the increase of energy? because isn't growth of emissions a fundemental symptom of the growth in the economy? Isn't there a massive discconnect and lack of critical thinking about the assumptions that just state the electrical energy required by 2050 will be 4x to 6x more than today? All of this highlights the complete lack of serious thinking about climate change as a direct effect of economic growth. For we don't consume more fossil fuels every year and emit more emissions just because we are evil people. we do it because the economy is growing larger and now science is clearly measuring very serious effects of this continued growth. I am deeply concerned about this ideas that climate change is an effect and not a cause is not being taken seriouly - because the brutal unvarnished truth is to lower emissions , we are going to have to lower economic growth... and this is why , in my humble opinion, even after 30 years of climate conferences and trillions of dollars of investments into renewable energy, we have not even slowed the growth of the consumption of fossil fuels yet, a point proven by the continued growth in emissions .... The science is in, this lovely human and others have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that we are facing a global crisis big enough to knock civilization off its feet and create more chaos than we want to imagine... but the question is, can we confront the root truth at the heart of this crisis? that climate change is a symptom of burning fossil fuels for economic growth ? And that economic growth is one of, if not the, most sacred of sacred cows and can it be challenged in even the smallest way?

@tomstruct Ай бұрын

Might I suggest looking at it this way: combustion engines are about as good as they’re going to get and newer iterations of technology (wind solar storage many new battery chemistries horses for courses etc) will continue to clean up. Valid your concerns may be nihilism is not an option. Time to get defiant 🎉

@JaseboMonkeyRex Ай бұрын

@tomstruct how did you get nihilism out of the fact that we aren't even discussing the root issues and we are seemingly confused with the poor results? The climate science is clear, we have an critical issue , but asking why we haven't been effective is key given we have known since the 1980's ... honestly, the 1960's the oil companies knew about climate change and we've had 30 years of investments into renewable energy and the technology has drastically improved and the cost to produce a kWh has fallen by 90% ... so how is it we are all using more energy and emitting v more carbon today than 30 years ago ? And how is it that we project continuously growing out beyond 2050 to 2100? The solutions are not technology, they will help, but design is where the solutions reside. And this is why we see no change, because we have a oligarchy dictating terms to the governments of the world. But even more importantly, no one really wants to change, because when we properly understand the problem emissions are just one of many ecological boundaries we are breaking through and can be summed up be describing the overall situation as we are in ecological overshoot. Which means our lifestyles in the west and now the developing world are the cause of the issues... high materialistic consumption based lifestyles. The problem is design, it's culturally based perceptions of nature as a commodity lacking any intrisic value other than its utility to our economic development. The alienation of our culture where we believe we stop at the limits of our own skin, that we are independent actors in a dumb universe without intelligence here by a quirk or stroke of luck with no meaning or purpose.... the economic paradigm was designed from this mindset and it's not at all surprising the system has grown to threaten our very lives and the stability of civilization itself. Our culture lacks wisdom of the old cultures the original cultures. There is no fundamental barrier to changing this, but a different branch of study has shown, this type of change has never been done successfully before... So yes time to arc up... but about what? Do we blame the fossil fuel companies for providing energy to live an amazing life ? Do we stop the rest of the world from developing? If you can see what I'm talking about, you will understand that we are way beyond nihilism. .. we are at the ground floor of reality.

@gregcromack3864 Ай бұрын

Can I get an ePub version of this?

@dusanvuckovic17 Ай бұрын

thank you doctor and thank you AI

@alancotterell9207 Ай бұрын

Everybody is allowed to express an opinion, but the rest of us might have to develop selective hearing. No environmentalist ever seems to mention ISO14000 Environmental Management Systems Certifications - might be due to ignorance. Many scientists do not work in engineering factories.

@davidwilkie9551 Ай бұрын

Understand QM-TIME, flash-fractal recognition of e-Pi-i 1-0-infinity log-antilog interference positioning-location condensation modulation is the converse of quantization coherence-cohesion sync-duration resonance objectives, ie the "field effects" of metastable proportioning objectives in qualifying accuracy is not described by abstract measurements, Precision is not Accuracy because it is the "no cloning" observation, or the q-a cause-effect comparison of differentiates in functional terms, ie reiteration of pulse-evolution positioning is continuous connection concept like E=mC² logarithmic condensation modulation cause-effect of superimposed frequency-amplitudes interference objectives.. Political performance is entirely the Actuality of Control Fraud motivated by insane greed. Psychopathic indifference to consequences, unrestricted looting carried on with the impunity of total corruption.

@jinnantonix4570 Ай бұрын

It is simply not true that the government provides $14B in fossil fuel subsidies. Refer: RMIT fact check Adam Bandt.

@jinnantonix4570 Ай бұрын

The argument that we can reduce fossil fuel use by 50-80% with existing technologies misses the point. It is the cost to consumers of those technologies that is the problem. In particular the systems costs of energy storage and geo-dispersion, and dispatchable low emissions generation. The vast bulk of human population on this planet simply cannot afford the high cost of net zero by 2050. This essay has added nothing of value. A more valuable discussion would be (1) the role of gas as a low cost dispatchable backup for VRE and (2) nuclear power as a reliable low emissions generator - at least it is discussing solutions that can become policy.