Cormac Mills Ritchard
Greens back Labor's greenwashing
Cormac Mills Ritchard

By agreeing to pass the safeguard mechanism reforms, Labor’s signature climate policy, the Greens have helped greenwash the continued expansion of fossil fuels.

Labor safeguards fossil fuels
Cormac Mills Ritchard

How do you design a climate policy that the largest polluters will back? The Albanese government could write a book on the subject.

Why ‘green banking’ won’t win climate justice
Why ‘green banking’ won’t win
Cormac Mills Ritchard

“Green banking” is one of the ethical consumption fads of the day. No-one should be under the illusion, however, that it’s any more able to combat climate change and environmental destruction than any of the other failed consumer-oriented approaches of recent decades.

Towers of plastic
Cormac Mills Ritchard

Indian corporate giant Adani Enterprises recently announced plans to use coal from its Carmichael mine in Queensland to fuel a giant new plastic production plant in Gujarat. The announcement shocked many—after all, Adani and its Australian backers long argued that the coal from the mine was needed to produce cheap electricity that could help lift millions of people in India and surrounding nations out of poverty.

The plastic pollution catastrophe
Cormac Mills Ritchard

 

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