Part Three of three parts Karl Schmude delivered the following article as a paper at the Australian Chesterton Conference, held at Campion College Australia in Old Toongabbie, on October 19, 2019. The conference theme was Reclaiming the Economy: A Chesterton Alternative. What have these peculiar characters (the man who eats his hat, the one who…
As Eastern Australia burned, the anthropogenic climate-change rhetoric reached an hysterical level. Two examples are the climate protests in Melbourne (where protestors stood in the rain!); and the case of a woman placing the remains of her ruined home near Parliament House, blaming the Government for the fires. Such events, shown in the mainstream media,…
The recent bushfires in eastern Australia have caused terrible destruction and loss of life. The infernos raging on our television screens night after night were frightening. Unfortunately, their occurrence in a major heatwave was invariably presented as proof of climate change, rather than as proof that we need more effective fire-mitigation policies. In the immediate…
Waste-to-energy technology holds out much promise both as a clean way to produce energy and as a useful way to dispose of waste that would otherwise go to landfill. At least, that is so in the case of municipal solid waste. What of the case of agricultural waste? The 80 per cent Australian-owned AgBioEn has…
