Welcome to the Togetherness Project, a radio show on Voice FM 99.9 on your dial (as they say).
We are facing severe crises in Australia and globally. To name a few:
- Runaway climate change.
- Energy/fuel insecurity.
- Host of living.
- Political instability.
- Civil Society disintegrating
- Wars and conflicts.
- Food and material shortages.
- Pollution and waste.
- Extinctions.
- Technology taking over.
So we’ll use the model of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – just to give a theme and context to our discussions. The horsemen?:1
Famine
In archaeologicial times, this was the feared destroyer of civilisation. These days 30% of the world live in hunger while the rich countries throw away more food per person than the30% eat in a year.
Plague
We are talking pandemic here. COVID, Ebola and other emerging diseases that we don’t have a ready defence against.
War
War has broken out across Europe, Asia and South/Central America. It is sometimes disguised as “local conflict” but people are killed and for political reasons
State Collapse
Where did the Maya, Anasazi, Inca and so many Mesopotamian civilisations go? What about today’s dominant cultures?
This is a programme that values evidence based analysis. You will see evidence for what we present.2. Episode summaries are at the bottom of the page.
We will follow these things over many weeks. Each programme will have a go at a clear statement of the issue in context. We look beyond the problem We will always look at options we have to make it better Together!3
And it turns out that it is by working together that we can solve the most wicked problems. Think globally. Act locally, act together. That’s the pattern of how we solve these problems. So why the Togetherness project? Quite simply, the success of life on Earth has been driven by collaboration. Symbiotic. Cooperation. Common mutual benefits. Humans have dominated all ecological niches possible. By taking cooperation to greater heights. We can use that to solve the biggest problems. Even ones we created ourselves.
Togetherness Episodes
Episode 5
The Togetherness Project Today’s Topic – Plastics Waste, AI and Water We were going to have an episode focusing on social things. How early childhood and supportive communities have a positive effect on life. That will be coming to you in a few weeks. What happened last week?: The Federal Government abandoned plans to require…
Episode 4
The Togetherness Project Today’s Topic – Climate Change Lets look at some of the things that happened last week – Nepal and much more locally: ~2 cubic km of ice and rock going 4,000m downhill4 Why did it happen? Is it “normal”?5 Denial again. One nation wants to abolish renewables in favour of…
Episode 2
The Togetherness Project Today’s Topic – Food Part 2 (updated) Continuing our series on Food: What kind of shortages do we have?6 What about waste?7 My Grandma’s garden Industrial farming and alternatives A focus on Famine The Issue So today we’re going to talk about food again. Particularly we’re going to be talking…
Episode 1
The Togetherness Project Today’s Topic – Food Part 1 Today we’re going to talk about food. Particularly we’re going to be talking about what we eat and where it comes from. I’m going to start with a little story where yesterday I was walking through Melbourne University and. There I saw queues of students around…
- See The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel, 2017, focused mostly on inequality and how it drives collapse/revolution and war [↩]
- You will see references to articles from reputable sources that are ideally peer reviewed or produced by accredited journalists from trusted publishers. In other words, trustworthy [↩]
- the idea of Togetherness is drawn from the fact that our very lives are dependent on thousands of other species of plant and animal as well as all the people in our community. We are not islands sufficient unto ourselves! [↩]
- https://theconversation.com/the-collapse-of-a-mountainside-triggered-nepals-devastating-floods-as-the-regions-mountains-heat-up-it-wont-be-the-last-290924 [↩]
- https://theconversation.com/when-a-mountain-falls-how-ice-and-rock-triggered-nepals-catastrophic-flood-and-why-climate-change-is-raising-the-risks-290779 [↩]
- https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/ozharvest-warns-of-rising-food-insecurity/106594414 [↩]
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-13/australia-food-waste-business-economic-cost/107249996 [↩]