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Australia’s environment took a beating in 2018, as temperatures rose, rainfall declined, the health of rivers and ecosystems worsened, and floods, droughts and bushfires all took their toll.
Consumers are only benefitting from cheap clothes at considerable cost to the environment and by exploitation of a poor, vulnerable garment workers.
Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
There are some big misconceptions about the charcoal sector and its role in environmental damage.
Queensland’s new draft land-clearing laws aim to put the brakes on years of environmental destruction. But the bill contains several loopholes that are likely to stymie progress.
Given that cities may be home to 80% of humanity by the end of the century, they can only be sustainable if eco-friendliness is one of their core features.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, Lancaster University
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Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor, Head of Sustainable Consumption and Clothing Sustainability research groups, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Visiting Professor, Mahidol University
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Professor of Political Sociology and Critical Theory, University of Bath
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Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor in Conservation Geography, University of Helsinki
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Business and Society, Audencia
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Digital and Communications Manager
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
