WEEK 6, SEM 1 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Future Sydney: A paragon of resilience By Nelson Crossley
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iving in Sydney or Australia more generally over the past two years has begun to feel eerily apocalyptic. Narratives of climate disaster are starting to unfold: the 2019-2020 fires, growing economic inequality and most recently the widespread flooding of south east Queensland, and New South Wales. Suddenly, the climate crisis is shaping the lives of many across the country, making it harder for those in
power to ignore the impacts of these disasters. However, our government is showing no signs of enacting meaningful climate policy. To make matters worse, even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped today, the global average temperature would stay elevated for at least a thousand years.
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Analysing the NSSS - p. 6
here is a reason why the Left is often attracted to social science. Generating systematic knowledge about the social world is essential to thinking about a better future, whether in the context of systemic transformations like climate action or formulating individual policy and political decisions. Yet many on the Left increasingly deny the need for such a systematic approach to social reality.
Swapnik Sanagavarapu writes - p. 11
Where have all the pool tables gone? - p. 8 Is it time for compulsory voting in student elections? - p. 10
Europa: A colony without colonisation? - p. 19
