FET (old posts)

Many of my blogs have been perceived as a little pessimistic. This final blog of the year is intended to provide some optimism. The positiv...

This blog is to help those interested in understanding why there is a debate between these two alternative policy options for reducing green...

My last blog was too brief, I suspect, for the challenging idea it presented. So I will elaborate a little further. The key point I want t...

My recent blog on the Ehrlich-Simon wager aimed to raise 'the principle of the indivisibility of economic productivity'. Briefly, t...

Dr Richard Denniss recently published a research paper for The Australia Institute. Despite its promising title, there is no solution for f...

In 1980, prominent environmentalist, and author of the book The Population Bomb , Paul Ehrlich, entered into a wager with the late cornucopi...

On a leisurely Saturday afternoon, I ventured down to the ferry with fiancé, child, friend and dog in tow, to take a trip across the river t...

The Queensland government is currently phasing in fluoride to the reticulated water supply in many parts of the State. Yet there is by no m...

If my last blog, about the peak of global oil production and a sustained fall in global production, contained an ounce of truth, some intere...

We have reached the lowest oil price for about a year – down around $70 a barrel from a peak of over $140 a barrel not so long ago. Is this...