We languish in our habits and must see life afresh

Search Swinburne Research Bank

Home

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/41091

Title: We languish in our habits and must see life afresh
Author(s): Fisher, Frank
Abstract: A while back former deputy premier and environment minister John Thwaites spoke at Federation Square about social justice and climate change. He was dressed in a neatly ironed shirt and suit. World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello informed us that John's new boss, the Monash vice-chancellor, would be late---he was in a traffic jam on the freeway. Meanwhile the V C's boss, the chancellor, beamed from the pages of Monash's 50th anniversary publication proudly informing us that he was Australia's first booking on Branson's Virgin Galactic space venture. Good teaching rests in doing as one teaches. So, the contradictions in heating the planet by ironing clothes, driving into the city in parallel to a frequent, 30-minute bicycle-rail connection between Monash and Federation Square and travelling into space as a leisure activity, when the global heating consequence is 'off-the-planet', are not good teaching examples.
Publication type: Newspaper article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design. National Centre for Sustainability
Source: The Age, 06 November 2008
Publication year: 2008
Keyword(s): Australia; Climate change; Ecoliteracy; Public perceptions; Sustainability
Publisher: Fairfax
Publisher URL: http://business.theage.com.au/business/we-languish-in-our-habits-and-must-see-life-afresh-20081105-5ikg.html