Keywords: Environmental Justice
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 January 2010
1 Comment
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us. September 2009
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ENVIRONMENT
- Thor Beowulf
- 07 December 2009
5 Comments
Trees are recognised as powerful cosmological agents in many of the earth's myths, rituals and religious beliefs. A worldwide 'bell ringing for climate justice' on 13 December will signify a vocal, moral and spiritual re-engagement of churches with nature.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 September 2009
10 Comments
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ordmerod
- 10 July 2009
2 Comments
This week's release of the new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate expands moral teaching to promote a concept of 'human ecology' that covers both human life and the environment. It would seem that Benedict is not a climate change sceptic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the age of equal opportunity and unisex underwear, the feminist movement seems as incendiary as a cup of tea. Then there's ecofeminism, which argues that 'the domination of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected'.
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RELIGION
- Steven Douglas
- 05 March 2009
9 Comments
Catholic and Anglican Churches are relatively recent converts to religious environmentalism. The rhetoric of the Catholic Church on Creation-care remains
largely an optional extra for its organisations; economic and
institutional gains take precedence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Toby Davidson
- 27 February 2009
1 Comment
Sixteen Indigenous authors contribute stories of creation, love and yearning for place. Their
country is one whose ancient landscape and traditions of custodianship
were violently disrupted well before the 2009 fires.
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ECONOMICS
- Cameron Durnsford
- 03 December 2008
4 Comments
After the 2001 Argentine economic disaster, workers' collectives organised to autonomously run their enterprises. The collapse of the ABC Learning empire should not be seen as a total calamity, despite the obvious potential for fallout.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ECONOMICS
- John Wicks
- 23 September 2008
9 Comments
The 'trickle down' of wealth proclaimed by neo-liberalism is debatable, and hardships flowing from sub-prime activities descend on the disadvantaged with the finesse of a freight train. Some economists have demanded the GDP measure be replaced by goods and services data that promote the common good.
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