Dear Environmentality Listeners,
We would like to apologies for the delay in the blog, we
appreciate your patience and are hoping to get things back on track within the
next week or so!
Today we were suppose to have Sean Willmore from The Thin
Green Line Foundation, unfortunately due to some administrative error we mixed
up the date and were unable to talk to Sean today. However we do look forward
to having Sean on the show in the near future!
Instead Smokie, Jaime and Ahmed talked about a range of
issues and as usual managed to get side tracked.
The Desalination Plant came up again with recent decision by
the Baillieu government to not use the water unless under extreme conditions.
Citing Kenneth Davidson, Jaime and Smokey highlight that it would be easy to reconfigure
the desalination plant to recycle water. A link to one of Kenneth’s articles
can be found here
The misconception of the health impacts of drinking and
using recycled water was further discussed as Ahmed inquired as to why we are
not using more recycled water when other countries are already doing it! Lifting
the water restrictions and Melbourne’s water consumption continues to be a
debatable topic as Jaime contentiously suggest that we should have permanent
water restrictions, what do you think about Jaime’s suggestion?
It was good to reflect on Barack
Obama’s inauguration speech and his commitment to climate change despite
the dysfunctional situation in the current US political system. Gun control in
the US and America’s love of guns was further discussed as Obama starts his
campaign to rein in gun use in light of the series of deaths involving guns.
We continued to digress by talking about Julia Gillard’s
appointment of Indigenous and former-Olympian Nova Peris as the lead candidate
in the Labour Party’s Northern Territory Senate seat.
A link to today's podcast can be found here.
Tracks played today:
Buzzcocks- Whatever Happened To?
Th’ Faith Healers UK- Sparkling Chimes
The Pixies- Allison
The Pixies- Blown Away
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra- The System
The Temper Trap- This Isn’t happiness
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