There’s an important article on the ABC news about the response to intergenerational imbalance as a result of millennials and gen Zers progressively replacing boomers in government.

There's a great article by George Monbiot about mechanism for social change. The article wanders around a bit, but it eventually gets to some good points.

The point of the article is that new ideas can reach a critical level of penetration that causes the whole of society to suddenly “flip” to a new ideological position.

Recently, the ABC (Australia Broadcasting Corporation) News website presented an advertorial article promoting a David Attenborough documentary called The Year Earth Changed, which expounds the positive effect the global slowdown of human economic activity due to the pandemic has had on the natural world. 

If this documentary only references the short-term advantages that the natural world gains from the pandemic, and doesn’t reference the long-term negative effects, then it is misleading, as the long term disadvantages will be much more important than any short- term advantages.  

The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News ran an article a few days ago about the proposed Newcastle Waters solar power farm in the Northern Territory, Australia.  If the solar farm goes ahead, it will be world's largest with a power capacity of 10-gigawatts, and will cover an astounding 12,000 hectares.  Are renewable projects like this going to save us from our energy and climate-change problems?

A few weeks ago there was a spate of articles in the news media about how the coronavirus was helping to save the environment.  The reports generally had a positive flavour, and yet the pandemic will almost certainly be an environmental disaster when, or if, we come through it.