Newsletter March 2026, from Parramatta Climate Action Network. 

It brings a few words about important upcoming events. Climate Action Week Sydney is nearly upon us. This will be a unique happening. No where else in the world is such a thing happening at the same time. Sydney has held this annually over a number of years. This newsletter contains links to this years full events program.

Also in this newletter are some links to articles that look at some fundamental difficulties of our climate and energy predicaments. And the last question that we should ask is always : "And then what?"

This Climate action week, has many events organized by a lot of people and groups in Sydney. Its contributions from your community. This is in itself so good to know. Around the world there are many people and groups that are trying to communicate and bring about change in diverse ways.  Change is necessary for ourselves and for our economic and governance systems that are in forceful denial, even as they are spectacularly failing.

Real climate action is going to ultimately need much more than a week. Predicted outcomes are looking dire , to go past 3 degrees C of warming and beyond, according to well qualified experts.  The rate of warming has accelerated to having an extra 0.4 degrees C every decade.  Our industrial systems are soon becoming be dictated only by climate consequences and "Limits to growth". When are the people going to take bigger actions, and what actions are necessary?

Circumstances will eventually force us to give up the freedoms and comforts of taking no action, because our global systems are still controlled by fossil fuel extraction concerns.

Too many facts to ignore have been detailed in many by many climate and biology studies. Change is now on coming faster and hotter.

Are we ready yet for this future? Of course not. Its only been, like 50 plus years, two generations born, since 1970, when a definite global warming trend was statistically detected above baseline. Limits To Growth was published in 1972, and predicted systems collapse in the first half of this century, from resources exhaustion and pollution buildup (like GHG). In 1978 James Hansen reported to USA Congress that global warming was already detected. Mobil-Exxon had already done its internal studies and predictions.

And the principle status quo and wealth achievers and controllers of humanity have been trying to deny and downplay it since, and keep growing our emissions  with our economies.  As Kevin Andersen repeats frequently,  leaders continue their party and spread the hope that some future generation with miracle technology will save the day. Its "kick the can down the road time again".

Many Sydney events that have been organized as Climate Action Week (CAW) which is officially from March 9th to March 15th. Many events have been registered. As the CAW about web page says "Climate Action Week Sydney is a series of community-led events across Sydney from all aspects of the climate action ecosystem". Brilliant.

CAW, "by the community; for the climate",  is designed to get people together to present, listen, and talk with each other about this life changing aspect of our human predicament. There are many ways to get involved. Why isn't this happening everywhere?

On the full program page, each day has a long scrolled page of events, throughout the day, with some on at the same time. No one can manage to go to them all. To pick a day, click on the calendar control on the top right, and the day's events will appear in time order.

For instance, on Sunday 15th, organized for local and social, there is a picnic event in Parramatta's Prince Alfred Park,  involving Climate Action Week and ParraCAN, official time is from 12 to 2 pm. Click on this individual event box, and you will be taken to this Picnic registration page.

What aims to strike at a root cause,  is a "Cost of Growth" film,  hosted by Sydney Degrowth, at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre close to Newtown railway station, on Thursday 12th March from 6:30pm. Our growth of technology and consumption is difficult to deny cause of our climate catastrophe, a behaviour needing a mass change. Do we think "Net-zero" , "Energy Transition", and EV's are enough and adequate for the scale of our problems? A lot more is going to have to happen.

Here is a link to the CAW full program.

If your event diary is already full for CAW, but you have time for reading, or YouTube watching, here are a few recent links.

Kevin Anderson 2024 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdwvvZ8Wu4

Climate: Where are we headed?

Kevin describes how we are failing. No one wants to give up our fossil fuel provided production and delivery systems that maintain our lifestyles.

Kevin Anderson 2026 - https://climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-violent-climate-revolution-which-will-we-choose/

A Velvet or Violent Climate Revolution: which will we choose?

Kevin Andersons climate outlook is pessimistic, despite the gradual fall in global net energy supply, because of the intensity in which nations and corporations, governments, are fighting to access the remaining fossil fuel energy resources. Because emissions can still continue to to rise, while we burn a higher proportion of fossil fuel energy in the extraction, processing less of our energy profits, making our economies ever more fossil fuel intensive for less delivered energy and diminishing quantities of mined minerals.

Hence digging for more and harder to get Coal and Gas in Australia, as is still practiced by our political leaders, at the behest of industrial systems around world, is a truely vain and futile effort to try to prop up our energy intensive and financially driven civilization just a bit longer. Every bit of industrial systems growth, just grows our vulnerability and cumulative damages.  The result is simply turning up the heating on our planets Oceans. The only good thing is it accelerates the oncoming time of a total collapse of our energy systems, as we use them up faster. A wiser plan would be cut-backs and rationing. Nature responds to rates of flow.

Nate Hagens, has given our current policies of "economic" processing a name. He is popularizing the term "Mordor Economy" as it consumes everything and spreads its waste products everywhere, as it moves faster towards its final non-productive state. Explore that literary meme a bit further, we can label current modern Techo - Industrial societies the equivalents of Orcs swarming in order demolishing our planet, and our human herds are the driven by the equivalent of Sauron and his minions, entrapped "rings" - powerful networks of neocons in the thick of it for love of technology, status, money and perks. 

A notable blogger on these uncomfortable matters, "The Honest Sorcerer" explores many aspects of this, including where are we going, in  "Beyond The Mordor Economy", extrapolating from past to future.

We are, as Nate Hagens would put it, already in some sort of a “Mordor Economy,” where we spend more and more energy just on getting the next batch of energy and other resources—sacrificing everything we hold dear in the process. Human well being. Nature. Our future. This path we are on, however, is not only unsustainable but puts us on an accelerated trajectory towards a radically simplified world economy. And while many people believe that we can still alter our course—or at least, that we could’ve changed direction 50 years ago—all this was “written” in the laws of physics. The question is thus not “how we stop this from happening” but what is beyond Mount Doom?

Too Long, Didn't Read (TL;DR). 

The conclusions of physics, predictive human sociology and common sense, are that "this civilization is toast". Stop wasting our time on maintaining it. Far better to be working on what comes after. Keep on changing our values and priorities. Change is slow, but powerful when a lot of people agree.

Michael Rynn compiled this newsletter, with requested review from the Parracan workgroup.

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