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Extinction Rebellion stages ‘formal dinner party’ in the South China Sea to highlight climate crisis
Activists from Extinction Rebellion Hong Kong staged a dinner party in the South China Sea on Sunday to raise awareness of the climate crisis. In formal dress, four members sat at a dinner table as the ocean lapped around their legs. According to the group, their plates were filled with plastic and rubbish, rather than…
Australian bushfires are a warning of climate catastrophe; is Hong Kong listening?
As horrific as the recent bush fires in Australia have been, a satellite image attributed to NASA shared recently on social media made me gasp. It showed the entire continent of Australia literally on fire. On further inquiry, it turned out to be a composite image of all the forest fires (or bush fires as…
COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS
The dragon in the room: Tackling China’s pollution will be crucial at the COP26 climate summit
China’s unprecedented rise over the last four decades has enormous implications for the world. Some of those implications are potentially catastrophic. Predicting its long-term effect on global development, freedom and national security is difficult. There is much reason to worry as more developing countries have trouble repaying Chinese loans, Beijing eviscerates long-held freedoms in Hong…
Time for Hong Kong to get serious: you can’t tackle the climate crisis AND build mega-towns
The way humans deal with the climate crisis is one of the strangest examples of our complicated psychology. For example: this has been one of the hottest-ever summers in Hong Kong, and on October 5, the government issued a press release stating that September 2021 was the hottest on record, a full 2.3 degrees warmer…
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Why Hong Kong’s climate change efforts fall short
Official declarations of emergency, urgent consultations with scientific experts and a raft of radical social and economic policies to protect public health and the economy. That’s the approach that the Hong Kong government has adopted over recent weeks to battle the coronavirus, but it contrasts starkly with the lethargy and collective dragging of feet when…
‘Seas are rising, so are we’: Student protesters renew call for Hong Kong to declare a climate emergency
Hong Kong students marched through the rain on Sunday as they renewed their calls for more government action to tackle the climate crisis. Among their demands were for authorities to declare an environmental and climate emergency, and pledge to increase their use of renewable energy sources. The rally is the second of its kind to…
