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Author: Cristy Clark

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change is here, now we need to adapt
- Cristy Clark
- 26 October 2018
7 Comments
We are already suffering from the effects of global warming and the intensification of extreme weather events, and things are going to get worse. The question now is what we do to both limit the damage and adapt to the inevitable. Fortunately many of the actions that we must take will actually make our lives better.
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ENVIRONMENT

Ideology and idiocy in national energy policy
- Cristy Clark
- 27 September 2018
8 Comments
In light of the evidence, a national energy policy prioritising renewables should be uncontroversial. But is seems ideology is impermeable to evidence. Instead, we have the government continuing to try to pressure AGL into keeping the Liddell coal-fired power plant open despite clear-cut economic and environmental reasons for its closure.
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ENVIRONMENT

Christian PM should have a heart for climate
- Cristy Clark
- 30 August 2018
12 Comments
When Parliament resumes on 10 September, I hope Morrison leaves his lump of coal at home and takes his Christian values to work. He could start by adopting a 2030 emissions reduction target of at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels and ensuring that environmental considerations are central to all future development approvals.
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ENVIRONMENT

Laying waste to waste
- Cristy Clark
- 02 August 2018
2 Comments
It is all too easy to make daily choices that negatively affect the environment, and there are many incentives for us to do so — cost, time, social norms. This is where policies like plastic bag bans come in — they change the incentives and not only help us to do the right thing but also to normalise it within our culture.
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ENVIRONMENT

Us and them: reconceiving trees
- Cristy Clark
- 04 July 2018
8 Comments
Grieving the death of a tree seems a common experience, but I had rarely heard about it. We share stories of the loss of loved ones or pets, but not of specific trees. Are we less comfortable acknowledging the depth of this relationship? Does it challenge our cultural understanding of the natural world and our place within it?
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ENVIRONMENT

Will veganism save the planet?
- Cristy Clark
- 08 June 2018
13 Comments
Researchers from Oxford concluded that consumers have significant power to 'deliver environmental benefits on a scale not achievable by producers' by excluding animal products from their diets. Interestingly, this report comes at a time when the uptake of veganism is growing significantly, both globally and in Australia.
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ENVIRONMENT

The fight to make water a human right
- Cristy Clark
- 03 May 2018
2 Comments
In 2010, the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council recognised a human right to water, guaranteeing access for everyone to 'sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses'. Eight years on, it is past time that Australia incorporated this right into domestic law.
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INTERNATIONAL

The forgotten people of the Flint water crisis
- Cristy Clark
- 19 June 2017
7 Comments
Last Wednesday, five Michigan officials were charged with involuntary manslaughter for their role in the unfolding health crisis in Flint, Michigan - a crisis that has included at least 12 deaths from Legionnaires' disease, in addition to the possible lead poisoning of a whole population. The people of Flint were aware that something was wrong from the moment their water was switched over to the Flint river in April 2014. They just couldn't get anyone to listen.
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Cristy Clark
- Cristy Clark
Dr Cristy Clark is a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. Her work focuses on the intersection of human rights, neoliberalism, activism and the environment, and particularly on the human right to water.
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