The Australian Government has just launched its COVIDSafe Tracer App and is asking Australians to download it. The Climate Crisis helped me decide. I now have the App and want to explain why. There were three questions I needed to think about. First, will the App solve a problem? Second, will my data be safe? Third, what social obligations do I have in such situations? The last question was more difficult and the one I grappled with the most. The answers I came to may not be

This was first published in Medium.Com on 26 Aug 2019. Please see that post for all the links to background data and references. Should we call climate change and emergency? Yes, but there are potentially troubling consequences that we must not ignore. The term Climate Emergency has appeared in public discourse with remarkable speed and is now increasingly the language of not just the climate movement, but also a growing number of cities, states, parliaments and Universities.

Originally published in the Ecologist, 18th June 2020. https://theecologist.org/2020/jun/18/living-dying-forest The ranger parked his four wheel drive vehicle across from our campsite and wandered over. He was a seasoned bush worker diplomatically ensuring everyone was camping in the right spot and had paid up. We started talking about the bush fire risk. The forest we were in camping was full of towering eucalypts that had experienced the deadly 2009 Black Saturday fire sto