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Visit the RSMG blog, where there are lots of interesting posts, particularly this one on avoiding climate catastrophe
Visit the RSMG blog, where there are lots of interesting posts, particularly this one on avoiding climate catastrophe
"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"A green activist with a totalitarian mindset", editorial, The Australian
"would argue under a pile of wet statistics and produces more copy than Xerox". Stephen Matchett in the Australian
"the odd Quiggan (sic) is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
Re extinctions-while-u-watch. I think it’s creepy watching the 1936 footage of the thylacine at Hobart zoo. Now the Yangtze River dolphin is gone but video footage of the live animals was taken just a few years ago.
If we can’t save large cute mammals can we save ourselves?
as usual, it’s a question of motivation- you can be sure the rich and/or well-connected homo sap will be here, even if the garden variety fades away. probably a good thing, this planet needs a good die-off.