Climate change - Rationale Magazine

27 Apr

The dangers of searching for a ‘technofix’ to climate change

27/04/2026
By Nanda Jarosz
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In 1989, environmentalist Bill McKibben announced to the world that nature was dead. Due to the rapid rate and scale of anthropo...

24 Feb

Science & Health

How climate scientists balance the tension between research and public protest

24/02/2026
By Samuel Finnerty
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From marches and demonstrations to civil disobedience, scientists are increasingly turning to climate protest. As a social psychologist...

07 Aug

Science & Health

The dangers of exponential growth

António Guterres understands something that most world leaders do not. He knows that exponential growth is unrelenting and immensely de...

26 Apr

Law & Politics

Countering this election’s climate misinformation campaigns

26/04/2025
By Libby Lester
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Australia’s climate and energy wars are at the forefront of the federal election campaign as the major parties outline vastly different...

29 Oct

Law & Politics

The case against going nuclear

Is nuclear energy the magical solution that will reduce our use of fossil fuels, save us from global warming, and allow us to continue ...

07 Oct

Science & Health

Understanding the evolution of tipping points

Dying coral reefs, rainforests transforming into savannas, grasslands turning into deserts – these are ecosystem “tipping points”, boun...

20 Feb

Science & Health

How to inoculate against climate misinformation

Last year, the world experienced the hottest day ever recorded, as we endured the first year where temperatures were 1.5°C warme...

25 Aug

Law & Politics

What do climate denialists do when the facts change?

25/08/2023
By Noel Turnbull
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John Maynard Keynes is widely believed to have said: “Well, when the facts change I change my mind. What do you do?” It was probably ac...

04 May

Philosophy & Psychology

Why Earth is worth protecting – and not just for our sake

04/05/2023
By Simon James
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Environmentalists rightly urge us to consider the long-term effects of our actions. Plastic bags, they point out, can take hundreds ...

16 Jan

Law & Politics

Is there a ‘right to disobey’?

16/01/2023
By Jon Piccini
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One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labor government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their bel...

14 Nov

Science & Health

How the world’s fossil fuel addiction compromises our health

14/11/2022
By Celia McMichael
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Climate change threatens to undermine the health of people around the world, with more intense and frequent extreme weather even...

07 May

Science & Health

Mapping climate policy

As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesse...

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