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		<title>Aboriginal protest, rattled security and a dragged Prime Minister &#8211; Australia exposed</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/aboriginal-protest-rattled-security-and-a-dragged-prime-minister-australia-exposed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The protest was not violent.  It was certainly rowdy and confronting.  The protesters chanted loudly and angrily, and some beat time on the glass walls of the restaurant.  That evening the WIN TV news repeatedly referred to “violence” and used other inflammatory terms so inaccurate as to amount to lies.  The Canberra Times front page next day screamed “Australia’s day of disgrace”.  There are disgraces involved, but the rowdy protest was not one. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/aboriginal-protest-rattled-security-and-a-dragged-prime-minister-australia-exposed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=726&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From a Radical Industrialist</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/lessons-from-a-radical-industrialist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[We must] re-imagine the antiquated, linear, take-make-waste industrial system of which we are all a part. And instead, ... become part of a thoughtful, cooperative, cyclical system that mimics nature in the way that we design, source, manufacture, sell, install—and eventually reclaim and recycle—our products. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/lessons-from-a-radical-industrialist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=720&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Thriving Industries Can Save the Planet</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/how-thriving-industries-can-save-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of selling me a coffee maker, the manufacturer could offer me a domestic coffee-making service, which it delivers by providing a working coffee maker.  If a part breaks it replaces the part.  If some of the machine wears out, it replaces the machine. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/how-thriving-industries-can-save-the-planet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=715&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tao of economics</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-tao-of-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies and economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taoism arose from the close observation of nature and people.  It distills a higher wisdom than either of the crude world views that dominated the twentieth century. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-tao-of-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=702&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if it&#8217;s a big hoax?</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/what-if-its-a-big-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://betternature.wordpress.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if it's a big hoax and ... <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/what-if-its-a-big-hoax/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=698&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Greatest Greenhouse Polluter to Least?</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/from-greatest-greenhouse-polluter-to-least/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coal exports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia is one of the largest emitters per capita of greenhouse gases.  We are also the world’s largest exporter of coal, which is the dirtiest fuel in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.  We must therefore be the world’s worst citizens regarding global warming.  However we could be rapidly cleaning up our act, and diversifying and improving our economy in the process. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/from-greatest-greenhouse-polluter-to-least/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=687&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Durban Roadmap to Extreme Climate Danger</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/extreme-climate-danger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate negotiators in Durban have agreed to a “roadmap” that would leave the world at high risk of severe or catastrophic global warming.  They have belatedly agreed to discuss adopting outdated targets that would not come into force until 2020, far too late by current climate criteria. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/extreme-climate-danger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=678&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Climate News &#8211; Beyond &#8220;Dangerous&#8221; (Draft)</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/real-climate-news-beyond-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To have even a moderate chance (one in two or one in three) of staying below 2°C, the rich countries need to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions immediately and developing country emissions must peak by 2020.  In both cases subsequent reductions of emissions must be by as much as 6% per year, which is much faster than anything contemplated at present. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/real-climate-news-beyond-dangerous/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=664&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor and the Media: Obstacles to a Decent Society</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/labor-and-the-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor Party has become an obstacle to good governance and to a tolerable future for Australia.  The media have become more superficial, divisive, and regressive, and they are eroding our open and democratic society. <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/labor-and-the-media/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=659&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of the Beast manuscript available on request</title>
		<link>https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/beast-manuscript-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies and economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A complete manuscript of The Nature of the Beast is available for comment.  It is under a password, so as not to upset potential publishers, and so I can keep track of who is looking at it.  I would love &#8230; <a href="https://betternature.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/beast-manuscript-available/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betternature.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6792907&amp;post=654&amp;subd=betternature&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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