Daily Links Mar 9
From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>Date: 9 March 2021 at 8:39:55 am AEDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Mar 9 Post of the Day Land could be worth more left to nature than when …
Daily Links Mar 8
With coal power prices plunging, how’s the LNP policy looking now, Barnyard, Matteo and Angus Fantastic? https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/closures-any-day-coal-plants-in-peril-as-prices-plunge-20210307-p578gx.html From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>Date: 8 March 2021 at 8:43:53 am AEDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: Daily …
Daily Links Mar 6
Our species loss is not a proud record and we cannot claim we didn’t know. We can conclude that we didn’t care. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/05/the-disaster-movie-playing-in-australias-wild-places-and-solutions-that-could-help-hit-pause From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>Date: 6 March 2021 …
Daily Links Mar 5
You’d think that a free-market government would choose the best policy regime to allow the market to choose the most efficient means to deliver on policy objectives. But, when you’ve won power by many questionable means, not least of which was the great big TOE, the Tax On Everything, you’re probably a bit hamstrung and your donors will see that that remains the case. So no carbon tax from this lot, folks.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210304125337.htm
Daily Links Mar 4
Look on this and weep. Our generation, and the one before, has perpetrated many acts of environmental vandalism. Here’s the beauty of Lake Pedder before it was drowned. Now there’re plans for a cable car up Kunyani (Mt Wellington, to some) and six high-end ‘glamping’ cabins on the South West Track in Tasmania’s wilderness. We walked it two years ago and for three days didn’t see another person. We’re fast losing places that inspire a sense of awe and wonder – and we’re becoming the poorer for it.https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/03/tas-that-was-lake-pedder-1971/
Daily Links Mar 3
Is there no end to this rorting? Pork Barilaro and the Jamland jam jar show the dangers of devolving environmental regulation away from national scrutiny. Strengthening the EPBC Act, as …
Daily Links Mar 2
Peter Boyer points out that reductionist views towards nature diminish all who hold them. http://southwind.com.au/2021/03/02/whats-important-and-what-isnt/ From: Maelor Himbury <maelor@melbpc.org.au>Date: 2 March 2021 at 8:48:09 am AEDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Mar …