I'm really glad that you've covered the topic and I loved your essay and the audio of your monologue as it succinctly makes the point. I've just had a baby and the idea of him growing up in a world where he has to live with this frequently, where the koalas are all burned to a crisp, where the great barrier reef is dead and the old growth trees are gone - I find very abhorrent. As soon as they said we were going back to an El Nino weather I have been dreading summer, I remember how deeply distressed I was during the Black Summer, moved to tears. I love nature and I do what I can to protect it, I protest fossil fuel developments on the streets, I write to my MP's and the PM, I sign petitions, I post about climate policy on social media and I only buy second hand so as to reduce my consumption and avoid the earth being plundered and polluted, I have solar panels. It seems like it's all for nothing because most people don't know or care. When something like the Black summer happens people give a shit for a blib and then go back to life as usual. I don't understand why, we, the people, aren't taking to the streets, demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies, demanding our government squash all new (including extensions) of fossil fuel projects. And then I remember it's because a fair chunk of us watch media which are climate deniers, as you so eloquently pointed out.
Anyways, the main thing I wanted to say is that I found this podcast episode quite hypocritical from you as you run ads for gas before and during your podcasts on multiple occasions (which I've pointed out on social media).
I'd love for you to do more podcasts on addressing the climate crisis and why humanity is so largely inactive on the most important issue of all.
It was certainly a terrible bushfire, but not "certainly the worst nature disaster this country has every seen". Not by metric of loss of human life. Nowhere near the worst.
I gave up after 25 minutes. The issue is a serious one and doesn't deserve to the treated like it's an audio version of a Daily Mail article. I know Josh thinks highly of his impersonation skills but is this really the place for it? My parents run cattle on a property that went from green to black in the Queensland 2019/2020 fires so I have a greater understanding of the issue than a Sydneysider whinging about smoke in the air. The issues around climate change are serious but there is no 'one simple trick' to solving them, and it is irresponsible to think otherwise. A poetic diatribe about the failure of politics and the incorrect views of the great unwashed is not going to solve the issue either, nor help those suffering in LA. If you want to prevent things like this occurring in the future, don't become an accountant or app developer, get a degree in engineering or town planning instead.
If every journalist became an engineer or town planner, none of these issues would ever be exposed. Whatever method journalists want to use to get peoples attention about climate change, perhaps give them a break when they do it. Apparently, the topic doesn’t attract many clicks. Josh may not own a cattle farm but like every parent he is concerned about the world he’s leaving for his kids.
You've missed the point. Pointing a flat tire on a car does not resolve the problem of having a flat tire, the tire needs to be changed. A sensible person, once the tire has been changed, would consider questions like: was it something on the road, was the care being driven on a road, was the tire in good condition, was it the skill of the driver, what can be done to prevent it from occurring in the future? I could go on, but pointing out a problem does not solve it.
To solve a problem you need to investigate it, understand it and determine what solutions will fix it. The LA fires, the Australian fires of 2019/2020, had many root causes that require more attention than "there's a fire over there", and will require many fixes to resolve them. I doubt very much that climate change is solely the reason for LA's current destruction, policy and budgetary decisions will have also played a part.
When you say 'we need to address the issue of climate change' what do you actually mean? Climate change increases the risk of an event occurring and its potential magnitude, it does not by itself cause the event. There is no 'silver bullet' or 'one simple trick' that will 'solve' climate change. Many solutions will be required, and what works 'here' will not necessarily work over 'there'.
Besides, I never said Josh should become an engineer or urban planner, I think he's fantastic as a podcaster. Unfortunately, I feel he's missed the mark on this one.
Anyone else recognise the story about the farmer from watching Bluey with their kids? 😂
Hi Josh. Thanks for this.
I'm really glad that you've covered the topic and I loved your essay and the audio of your monologue as it succinctly makes the point. I've just had a baby and the idea of him growing up in a world where he has to live with this frequently, where the koalas are all burned to a crisp, where the great barrier reef is dead and the old growth trees are gone - I find very abhorrent. As soon as they said we were going back to an El Nino weather I have been dreading summer, I remember how deeply distressed I was during the Black Summer, moved to tears. I love nature and I do what I can to protect it, I protest fossil fuel developments on the streets, I write to my MP's and the PM, I sign petitions, I post about climate policy on social media and I only buy second hand so as to reduce my consumption and avoid the earth being plundered and polluted, I have solar panels. It seems like it's all for nothing because most people don't know or care. When something like the Black summer happens people give a shit for a blib and then go back to life as usual. I don't understand why, we, the people, aren't taking to the streets, demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies, demanding our government squash all new (including extensions) of fossil fuel projects. And then I remember it's because a fair chunk of us watch media which are climate deniers, as you so eloquently pointed out.
Anyways, the main thing I wanted to say is that I found this podcast episode quite hypocritical from you as you run ads for gas before and during your podcasts on multiple occasions (which I've pointed out on social media).
I'd love for you to do more podcasts on addressing the climate crisis and why humanity is so largely inactive on the most important issue of all.
Thanks,
Racheal.
It was certainly a terrible bushfire, but not "certainly the worst nature disaster this country has every seen". Not by metric of loss of human life. Nowhere near the worst.
I gave up after 25 minutes. The issue is a serious one and doesn't deserve to the treated like it's an audio version of a Daily Mail article. I know Josh thinks highly of his impersonation skills but is this really the place for it? My parents run cattle on a property that went from green to black in the Queensland 2019/2020 fires so I have a greater understanding of the issue than a Sydneysider whinging about smoke in the air. The issues around climate change are serious but there is no 'one simple trick' to solving them, and it is irresponsible to think otherwise. A poetic diatribe about the failure of politics and the incorrect views of the great unwashed is not going to solve the issue either, nor help those suffering in LA. If you want to prevent things like this occurring in the future, don't become an accountant or app developer, get a degree in engineering or town planning instead.
If every journalist became an engineer or town planner, none of these issues would ever be exposed. Whatever method journalists want to use to get peoples attention about climate change, perhaps give them a break when they do it. Apparently, the topic doesn’t attract many clicks. Josh may not own a cattle farm but like every parent he is concerned about the world he’s leaving for his kids.
You've missed the point. Pointing a flat tire on a car does not resolve the problem of having a flat tire, the tire needs to be changed. A sensible person, once the tire has been changed, would consider questions like: was it something on the road, was the care being driven on a road, was the tire in good condition, was it the skill of the driver, what can be done to prevent it from occurring in the future? I could go on, but pointing out a problem does not solve it.
To solve a problem you need to investigate it, understand it and determine what solutions will fix it. The LA fires, the Australian fires of 2019/2020, had many root causes that require more attention than "there's a fire over there", and will require many fixes to resolve them. I doubt very much that climate change is solely the reason for LA's current destruction, policy and budgetary decisions will have also played a part.
When you say 'we need to address the issue of climate change' what do you actually mean? Climate change increases the risk of an event occurring and its potential magnitude, it does not by itself cause the event. There is no 'silver bullet' or 'one simple trick' that will 'solve' climate change. Many solutions will be required, and what works 'here' will not necessarily work over 'there'.
Besides, I never said Josh should become an engineer or urban planner, I think he's fantastic as a podcaster. Unfortunately, I feel he's missed the mark on this one.