Popular Reports & Articles by Jennifer Marohasy:
A critical review of the chapter on Australia in Jared Diamond book Collapse showing that many of his claims of environmental degradation are not supported by the available evidence: Australia's Environment Undergoing Renewal Not Collapse, Energy and Environment, Volume 16, 2005.
If it is true to say ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’, then koala conservation is far from secure: Are Koala's in Decline, IPA Review, June 2005.
Why is it that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) condones the slaughter of rare whales by indigenous peoples using what are arguable inhumane traditional methods, while ruling against the commercial harvest of more common species by more humane methods:No science and no respect in Australia's anti-whaling campaign, Online Opinion, July 2005.
How to redefine environmentalism in accordance with modern theories of evolutionary biology and in accordance with policies that will deliver tangible environmental benefits: Time to Redefine Environmentalism, IPA Review, December 2004.
Predetermined beliefs rather than science are driving public policy on environmental issues warns Jennifer Marohasy in Environmental Fundamentalism , Policy, Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 2004.
This report challenged conventional thinking on the Murray River and influenced national water policy: Myth and the Murray: Measuring the Real State of the River Environment, IPA Backgrounder, December 2003.
Why was the allegation of pesticide in dugongs included in the original summary report? Why was the allegation not corrected after I brought the error to Dr Baker’s attention in December 2002: Deceit in the Name of Conservation, IPA Review, March 2003.
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A Book
Jennifer is currently writing a book on the ongoing Buyat bay saga where a gold mining company is accused of poisoning villagers and fringing coral reef in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
An article entitled 'Politics and the Environment in Indonesia' written by Jennifer was published by the IPA in July 2007, click here: http://www.ipa.org.au/publications/publisting_detail.asp?pubid=673 . It is an introduction to the issue.
Retraction and Apology
I made a full public apology to the Australian Rainforest Foundation and its Chief Executive Officer, Roger Phillips, in relation to entries on blog site etitled 'Daintree Compensation' read more here: http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002522.html
Recent Newspaper Opinion Pieces: Since the election of the Rudd Labor government last year, and now with the release of the Garnaut Climate Change Review’s Draft Report last Friday, we seem to be under some sort of delusion that by adopting an emissions trading scheme we can have a significant impact on the global climate.
Read more... Let’s be honest: a dry river is not necessarily an environmental catastrophe. Last week we were warned that a leaked government report claims there is only six months to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
Read more... Last week the US Senate debated a 500-page global warming bill known as the Warner-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade bill. The Democrats knew it would likely be vetoed by President George Bush, but they hoped to push it through the Senate anyway and in this way build further momentum for reducing America’s greenhouse gas emissions. But they weren’t successful: some Democrats refused to support it on the basis that it would push up petrol prices.
Read more... A summit on genetically modified (GM) crops held in Melbourne last week attracted lots of big names in this debate, including Western Australia’s Julie Newman, who leads the Network of Concerned Farmers, and the deputy chief of CSIRO’s Plant Industry division, T.J. Higgins.
Read more... South Australians seem to really know how to whinge – now they’re blaming an acid sulphate soil problem on NSW irrigators.
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