John Macleay, Kyogle Environment Group

For this month’s column I’m indebted to the work of Luke Kemp’s book Goliath’s Curse, subtitled ‘The History and Future of Societal Collapse’, and another important work, The Language of Climate Politics by Genevieve Guenther – subtitled ‘Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight it’. The two books are linked, despite what at first seems like…

If you think summers in the Northern Rivers are hot now, just wait a decade and a bit and they’ll be unbearable for most of that time.  And by unbearable temperatures, I’m not talking about the usual languid nights filled with humidity but something far more sinister: the inability of the human body to cope…