Antinuclear

The health cost of continuing to ignore climate change and burn fossil fuels are huge. The government is failing in its responsibility to care for its citizens.
DOCTORS ARE DISMAYED by the inadequacy of the Abbott government’s just-announced carbon emission targets of at least 26 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, which it aims to take to the United Nations climate change meeting in Paris in December.
We see a government who is again failing to acknowledge the enormity of the increasing health impacts of climate change, and failing to treat the problem with the urgency and seriousness it deserves.
Instead the government shows a reckless support for coal, which is both detrimental to the climate and has significant direct health impacts due to the air pollution produced from both mining and combustion.
Already in Australia the health impacts of climate change are increasingly evident, and will be felt…

Deborah Lawrence had been watching a once-empty parking lot near Midland-Odessa, Texas, fill up with idled drilling rigs usually at work plumbing for oil in the nearby Permian Basin. In January she noticed 10 rigs, then 17 a few weeks later. As winter turned to spring, the number climbed to 35.
If science and good sense aren’t enough to make us shift to renewable energy, perhaps economics will.

That trend has continued across the country. By the end of July, the nationwide rig count had slipped 54 percent since the same time a year ago, indicating distress in the oil and gas industry. The most obvious culprit is the precipitous drop in crude prices. But the trouble goes deeper, as Lawrence knows—and she isn’t just a casual observer. Lawrence is a former Wall Street financial consultant who now runs the Energy Policy Forum, helping to identify and analyze trends in…