Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute's Climate & Energy Program.
Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party's signature climate policy, the "Safeguard Mechanism" - which, I'm sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad.
Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it's not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural world, and wonder how this whole thing is going to play out politically.
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My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out now
I’m currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: ADELAIDE | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE
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Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger
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Polly's speech, "What is Climate Integrity?"
Labor’s Safeguard policy is a mirror image of fossil industry greenwashing by Ketan Joshi for RenewEconomy.com.au
The Great Stock'n'Coal Swindle by Nick Feik
265 - Goodbye
264 - Ben Abbatangelo
263 - Larissa Baldwin-Roberts
262 - Professor John Quiggin
261 - Alison Pennington Returns
260 - "I, Millennial" Event LIVE in Warrnambool
258 - "I, Millennial" Extract: Privatisation
257 - Craig Foster
256 - Talking "I, Millennial" w/Osman Faruqi
255 - "I, Millennial" Prologue
254 - Ben Schneiders
253 - Leo Puglisi
252 - Jim Casey
251 - Georgia Steele
250 - David Shoebridge MLC
249 - Palestine Justice Movement Sydney Forum: "Why We Are Boycotting The Sydney Festival"
248 - Johann Hari Returns (On "Stolen Focus")
247 - Van Badham Returns (on #QAnon)
246 - James Button (on Cancel Culture)
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