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#NaturePositive

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BellingenNSW

"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."

"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change

The Guardian · How Trump and the new right came to ‘own’ the future – while apparently exploiting the pastBy Jonathan White
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BellingenNSW

"The hypermarketization of everything", Quinn Slobodian, 2025

Bean counters are attempting to put a monetary value on the complexity of nature

Think of a logged forest.

"The value of the timber produced counts towards Australia’s gross domestic product. But cutting trees down also produces a loss. For example, the forest is no longer there for the community to enjoy. And it no longer provides “services” such as filtering water and preventing soil erosion."

"There are many reasons to measure the value of those services. For example, governments might then be able to charge a logging company a licence fee which reflects the community value of the forest. A government may decide the forest is too valuable to allow logging at all, or the fee may just be set too high for any company to find it profitable to log it."

"To date, the value lost when trees are cut down, or other ecosystems are damaged, has not been included in the national accounts. The new environmental accounts seek to change this."
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theconversation.com/new-report

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War,
Quinn Slobodian, 2025 >>
press.princeton.edu/books/hard
#nature #Biodiversity #EPBCAct #NatureNegative #Naturepositive #complexity #ecosystems #degradation #value #loss #NativeForests #extractivism #hypermarketization

The ConversationNew report slaps an official price tag on Australia’s precious natural assets
More from The Conversation AU + NZ
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BellingenNSW

The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species

"It would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority species. The cost to reverse the decline of priority species and undo damage done by habitat loss, disease and other threats was estimated at $103.7 billion annually, while getting them off the threatened list entirely would require $157.7 billion per year.”

"Biodiversity loss and ecosystems collapse is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the second most significant global risk over the next decade, with 50 per cent of the global economy dependent on nature. " >>
news.griffith.edu.au/2025/02/0

Australians spent over $33 billion on their pets last year.
dogster.com/statistics/pet-spe
#biodiversity #ecosystems #extinction #risks #wildlife #SettlerSociety #pets #Australia #NaturePositive #values

Griffith News · The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species     - Griffith NewsA new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority
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BellingenNSW

138,000+ hectares of koala habitat bulldozed as Albanese fails on new nature laws

"New analysis shows that despite the Albanese government committing to no new extinctions, 138,617 hectares of koala habitat was bulldozed in just one year in Queensland. This forest was bulldozed under the current, weak federal nature laws, leaving the loopholes wide open for further clearing, putting the koala on a fast track to extinction."
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queenslandconservation.org.au/
#NaturePositive #laws #koalas #extinction #NSWLogging #Queensland #biodiversity #destruction

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BellingenNSW

Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continue

"This country has a long history of taking its unique wildlife and landscapes for granted – but what has happened in this term of parliament is remarkable."

"As Australia struggles to pass strong environmental laws, native wildlife pays the price, with habitat disappearing at an astonishing rate here is something significant missing from most of the political and media discussion about the Australian government’s promised, and now abandoned, nature protection laws: the environment.Logically, it should be a focus of the debate. In practice, it barely gets a look-in."
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theguardian.com/environment/co
#biodiversity #wildlife #ecosystem #conservation #extinction #destruction 236 #extrativism #NSWLogging #NaturePositive #NatureNegative

The Guardian · Australian nature: if our laws don’t radically change, environmental degradation will continueBy Adam Morton
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BellingenNSW

A federal nature watchdog and broken environment laws
Plibersek praised nature positive deal with Pocock and Greens as ‘critical’ before PM scrapped it, documents reveal

"Pushing the EPA off the agenda risks alienating pro-environment Labor MPs and grassroots members, who have spent years campaigning for a federal nature watchdog. The EPA forms part of Labor’s nature positive plan to overhaul federal environment protection laws."
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theguardian.com/australia-news

WA premier warns east coast latte sippers over ‘nature positive’ laws >>
afr.com/politics/federal/wa-pr
#NaturePositive #EPA #watchdog #EnvironmentLaws #NatureNegative #mining #lobby #extractivism #SubimperialEnforcer #NSWLogging #conservation #laws

The Guardian · Plibersek praised nature positive deal with Pocock and Greens as ‘critical’ before PM scrapped it, documents revealBy Dan Jervis-Bardy
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BellingenNSW

The Nature Positive deal: “The barbarians flexed their muscles and that was that.”

"Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners. But sadly, until now, we have not been able to land an agreement, because it seems the miners and the loggers in this place have more influence than the environment minister, and that’s a real shame...The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, which Plibersek’s bill would have amended, would have helped repair “a completely broken system”.
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#Biodiversity #governance #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #NSWLogging #loggingIndustry #mining #deforestation #landclearing #extractivism #environment #laws #Australia #law

The Guardian · Plibersek had nature positive deal in writing before Albanese vetoed without her knowledgeBy Karen Middleton
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BellingenNSW

Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging?

"The Greens have dropped their demand for a climate trigger to be incorporated in the government’s stalled Nature Positive legislation, indicating they are now prepared to pass the bills in return for a Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging alone."

“Closing the legal loopholes that allow large-scale native forest logging and land clearing to go unassessed will have tangible impacts for the protection of critical habitat in Tasmania, NSW, and northern Australia, where deforestation is out of control."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#loggingIndustry #NSW #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #plantations #deforestation #ResourceFrontiers #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extractivism

The Guardian · Greens drop climate trigger demand in attempt to restart Nature Positive talks with LaborBy Karen Middleton
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BellingenNSW

Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'

Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.

The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.

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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/env

"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc

"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-

##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability

There's a buck in koalas Koala protection medallion 4 SALE
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John Englart

My writeup of the Nature Positive Summit that ocurred in Sydney 8-10 October. I am sure there were positive interactions, but by reports financialisation of nature and biodiversity an important focus. A Talkfest, while the Australian and NSW Governments lacked ambition and were using it to greenwash nature negative activities such as approving new coal mines or logging native forests.

#NaturePositive #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #Sydney #Environment

takvera.blogspot.com/2024/10/i

Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek opening the inaugural Nature Positive Summit in Sydney.
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NSW.Biodiversity

Nature conservation is a public good, not a market

"When we consider that the economy is a “wholly owned subsidiary” of the environment, it is simply an absurd proposition to claim government can’t provide the lion’s share of investment required to turn the tide on biodiversity decline...Australia has an opportunity to be a global conservation leader, not a laggard and pariah, we must seize this opportunity". >>
360info.org/nature-conservatio
#biodiversity #conservation #biodiversity #NaturePositive #harm #PublicBads #law #EPBCAct #governance #nature

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