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Australia can be a renewable energy superpower.

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Australia glows orange on this map, showing that we have outstanding wind and sun resources compared to most developed countries. And we have abundant minerals, like iron ore and lithium. So, Australia can take action on climate change and become a renewable energy superpower. This would be a win for our climate, industry, jobs, and prosperity. See Australia: A Renewable Energy Superpower

Image Source: The global map of wind and solar potential is from the “Beyond Zero Emissions” 2015 publication “Renewable Energy Superpower”.

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The massive cost of importing fossil fuels.

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Australia spends $ 61 billion a year buying fossil fuels from overseas.

We must electrify to (1) reduce this enormous flow of money from us to overseas places like Russia, and (2) reduce our dependence on energy from overseas.

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Vicious cycles driving global heating.

Self-reinforcing feedback cycles are driving global heating and bringing more extreme heat, fires, and floods.

Here is one of these self-reinforcing cycles: Global heating is melting permafrost, releasing methane and further increasing global heating.

More global heating		More melting of ice containing methane
More greenhouse gases		More methane in the air

We need radical climate action before these cycles become unstoppable. They threaten rapid, irreversible change. They threaten the end of life as we know it on planet Earth.

See The Critical Danger: Amplifying Feedback Cycles.

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Vicious cycles driving people’s problems

Self-reinforcing feedback cycles can drive change in humans, including the development of problems and recovery from problems. I present:

• a counselling session in which I identified and presented to a client a vicious cycle driving their presenting problem, and
• a systems theory–based understanding of human behaviour in terms of feedback cycles.

Here is one cycle that was useful for one client.

For professional counsellors, these pages offer a practical way to generate and deliver counselling interventions, combined with a supporting theoretical framework.

*** This is a new part of this website. I loaded these pages onto this website in December 2025.

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A vicious cycle driving right-wing populism

A vicious cycle links climate change, mass migration and right-wing populism. We need climate action to prevent this cycle from becoming dominant.

Failing to act on climate reinforces a dangerous cycle: worsening environmental crises lead to more displacement, fuelling right-wing populism, which tends to increase global heating.

Higher global temperatures		More extreme weather
Less climate action		More conflict over land, water, food & housing
More right-wing populism		More migration

Climate action to reduce migration and right-wing populism.

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Climate change evidence

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See Evidence of human-caused climate change.

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Convergence: The basis for scientific confidence

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See Convergence: The Basis for Scientific Confidence.

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Site Purpose

I have urged climate action on this website since 2009.

I also present “amplifying feedback” as a process that can help us understand climate change and human problems such as addiction. Amplifying feedback cycles are driving change all around us, leading to my website’s name, “Feedback Reigns”.

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Site Author: Andrew Gunner

See my background.

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Site Map

See the Visitor Site Map: a compact overview of the website.

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Updated: 2 Jan 2026