Clive Hamilton https://clivehamilton.com/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:51:39 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 noatham@versatile-soft.com Australians are bracing for climate collapse—and it’s rewriting politics https://clivehamilton.com/australians-are-bracing-for-climate-collapse-and-its-rewriting-politics/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:51:39 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1300 A new study indicates that anxiety about social and economic collapse due to climate change is pervasive in Australia. The nationwide survey (commissioned by the author and carried out by Roy Morgan Research) reveals that nearly a third of Australians are ‘very or extremely concerned’ about social and economic collapse occurring by 2050. Three in […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Australians on the move to escape climate extremes: Tasmania favoured https://clivehamilton.com/australians-on-the-move-to-escape-climate-extremes-tasmania-favoured/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:29:40 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1298 As the globe continues to warm and extreme weather events intensify, Australia faces a demographic upheaval as some regions become too risky to live in. With more households living through floods, fires, cyclones, and heat waves, anxiety about climate change is inevitably escalating and we can expect many Australians to relocate to safer parts of […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Climate bunkers in the suburbs? https://clivehamilton.com/climate-bunkers-in-the-suburbs/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:09:02 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1297 Almost a quarter of Australians say they have modified their homes in the last six years to protect themselves from extreme weather events, according to a report released today by Charles Sturt University. Homeowners most exposed to extreme events are much more likely to modify their homes to protect them from climate change. These are […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Oh no! The think tank I founded is now pro-Beijing https://clivehamilton.com/oh-no-the-think-tank-i-founded-is-now-pro-beijing/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:03:54 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1295 When Justice Michael Kirby spoke at the launch of the Australia Institute in 1994, he called on us to ‘never forget the neglected, the despised, the underprivileged, [and] the disadvantaged.’ For me his speech was pitch perfect. I had decided to establish the new think tank because the victims of the system—the unemployed vilified as […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Is it time for Australia to acquire its own nuclear weapons? https://clivehamilton.com/is-it-time-for-australia-to-acquire-its-own-nuclear-weapons/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:02:45 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1290 Is it time for Australia to consider acquiring nuclear weapons? It sounds outrageous. Stay with me. Donald Trump is blowing up world trade. After a period of turmoil, it will probably settle into a new state where the US economy is substantially weaker. Trump is also trashing post-war alliances, including NATO, prompting US allies to decide America cannot […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Trump & the climate https://clivehamilton.com/trump-the-climate/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:16:28 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1283 What seemed morally impossible has happened. So what does a second Trump Administration mean for global heating? Obviously, it will mean U.S. carbon emissions will be higher in 2030 and beyond than they otherwise would have been, and the world will become hotter as a result. Trump has said climate change is a ‘scam’, a […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) Should Peter Singer Be De-Platformed? https://clivehamilton.com/should-peter-singer-be-de-platformed/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:34:46 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1281 At the Byron Writers Festival last week, I overheard a conversation between two writers in the shuttle bus. “I’m going to the Peter Singer session ,” said one. The other, an Indigenous woman, replied, with some bitterness: “I’ve no interest in listening to him, he’s a eugenicist.” I turned to hear more, and she went […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) How do we prepare for life on a hot planet? https://clivehamilton.com/how-do-we-prepare-for-life-on-a-hot-planet/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:40:32 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1279 There has always been a sense of unreality about our climate change predicament, especially through the long years of denial, disputation and delay. More recently, Australia seems to have jumped from the delusions of denial to faith in increasingly implausible”solutions”, bypassing sober assessment of the seriousness of the reality we confront. It should be obvious […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) ‘Neo-nature’ and the new world of the Anthropocene https://clivehamilton.com/neo-nature-and-the-new-world-of-the-anthropocene/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:47:52 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1274 Do you, like me, hesitate when you refer to floods or bushfires as natural disasters? When Earth’s atmosphere is warmer and moister because of human-induced climate change, all weather events have a human fingerprint. The now well-developed field of ‘attribution studies’ calculates the increased likelihood and severity of extreme weather events as a result of […]

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]]> atham@versatile-soft.com (Clive Hamilton) It’s just not cricket: rich kids win at the expense of everyone else https://clivehamilton.com/its-just-not-cricket-rich-kids-win-at-the-expense-of-everyone-else/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:46:24 +0000 https://clivehamilton.com/?p=1273 The opening on Friday of Radford College’s multi-million dollar cricket facility—described as ‘better than Lords’—draws attention to the fundamental unfairness of our education system. Elite private schools are engaged in a kind of arms race to build the most lavish facilities for their already privileged pupils, which not only highlights the growing gap with public […]

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