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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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Eric Maugendre

"Today one of the Commission’s flagship projects, the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ #CID is published. The deal breaks with past ambitions on #chemicals, and deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster. Some of the most polluting industries will receive billions in state aid and financing from EU funds, laws will be amended to suit their agenda."

by @corporateeurope: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02

corporateeurope.orgPolluters get paid | Corporate Europe ObservatoryToday one of the Commission’s flagship projects, the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ (CID) is published. The deal breaks with past ambitions on chemicals, and deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster.
#lobbying#Brussels#energy
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Eric Maugendre

The 162 corporations and trade associations which declare EU lobby budgets of over €1 million annually, collectively declare at least €343 million per year.

Five-year growth: Since 2020, these corporate interests have declared nearly €86 million more, marking a one-third increase over five years.

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02 🧵

corporateeurope.orgThe EU’s lobby league table | Corporate Europe ObservatoryCorporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl reveal the sheer corporate lobby firepower in the EU, analysed by sector. Big Tech, Energy, Banking, and Chemicals dominate. 
#Tech#Banking#Chemicals
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Chuck Darwin

Hegseth’s Proposed Pentagon “Budget Cuts” Seemingly Won’t Reduce Spending at All

(The Defense Department quickly reframed plans for an 8 percent annual reduction in military spending as “offsets.”)

Hegseth, in an internal memo, ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years,
-- and instructed officials to hand in their proposals by this coming Monday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), long a vocal proponent of cutting the military budget as it approaches $1 trillion a year,
agreed on social media that “when the Pentagon cannot complete an independent audit,
we should cut military spending by 8% a year over the next five years.”

⭐️That is not what the administration appears to have in mind.

While headlines in major media outlets characterized Hegseth’s memo as a striking call for #cuts ...

🔥Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses described the proposal as a push for #offsets ...
⚠️that could be used to fund other military-related efforts favored by President Donald Trump,
including an “Iron Dome for America” that experts have ridiculed as a wasteful “fantasy.”

“The department will develop a list of potential #offsets that could be used to fund these priorities,
as well as to refocus the department on its core mission of deterring and winning wars,”
said Salesses.

“The offsets are targeted at 8% of the Biden administration’s FY26 budget,
totaling around $50 billion,
which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump’s priorities.”

The U.S. military budget for Fiscal Year 2025 is roughly $850 billion.
commondreams.org/news/hegseth-

Common Dreams · Sure Looks Like Hegseth's Proposed Pentagon 'Cuts' Wouldn't Be Cuts at All | Common Dreams"It seems that this announcement may amount to a money-moving exercise within the agency itself rather than an overall Pentagon topline reduction," said one watchdog.
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Selamatkan Hutan Hujan

COP 16 - Waktu Terbuang

Negara-negara di dunia sepertinya tidak mengerti arti pencegahan segera kepunahan masal #flora dan #fauna.
Mengumpulkan dana dengan konsep #offsets dan sertifikat #biodiversitas berisiko tinggi!
Lihat petisi "#Alam tak boleh jadi komoditas".

Hal positif yang telah diputuskan di Cali: #COP16 telah membentuk sebuah komite yang menjamin kepastian hak-hak dan kepentingan #masyarakatadat (#indigenouspeoples)

hutanhujan.org/updates/12885/w

www.hutanhujan.orgWaktu terbuang sia-sia - kesempatan percumaNegara-negara di dunia sepertinya tidak mengerti arti pencegahan segera kepunahan masal flora dan fauna. Demikian yang terjadi di kota Cali (Kolombia) dimana Konferensi Konferensi Biodiversitas PBB ke 16 berhenti tanpa kesepakatan tentang pendanaan. Pertanyaannya; Bagaimana kelestarian biodiversitas harus dibayar? Bisu tanpa jawaban.
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Eric Maugendre

There is no #transition:
Climate policies reduce annual GHG #emissions by about 1 Gt/year (0.6 to 1.8 giga-tonnes of CO₂-equivalent/year): inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/cli
So, policies of climate change #mitigation achieve 2% of the requirements. Emissions continue at around 50 times more: data.yt/projections/2024-resul

Graph shows that land use emissions are as high as other emissions combined. More explanations at: http://data.yt/projections/2024-results.html#overview-chart
#climatePolicies#greenTransition#energyTransition
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BellingenNSW

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

smh.com.au/environment/conserv ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

The Sydney Morning Herald · The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved inBy Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Eric Maugendre

"The need for decarbonisation poses an existential threat to the #oilAndGas industry, which is why they have created multiple ‘escape hatches’ to continue fossil fuel burning, including techno-fixes like CCUS and carbon removals. […] Europe is showering public money and policy support on these dangerous distractions designed to keep Big Oil and Gas in business."
corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonC

corporateeurope.orgThe Carbon Coup revisited | Corporate Europe ObservatoryAs the ICM Forum gears up to meet in Pau, France, 10-11 October, find out how the European Commission is allowing this close-knit club of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters to shape key EU energy policy, greenwash and waste billions in public money to protect industry interests.
#lobbying#ICM#energy
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Eric Maugendre

From the Bruegel thinktank: "In the absence of good public data, special interests find it much easier to lobby for suboptimal approaches. The EU has a substantial problem in this respect, as energy data is not available currently in a timely way or at the level of granularity, reliability and consistency needed for informed policymaking."
bruegel.org/memo/memo-commissi

#energy#offsets#Europe
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BellingenNSW

A motorway built through an endangered koala habitat

Pictures "show isolated examples of dead and injured koalas found around the Gold Coast after prime habitat was bulldozed for a new multi-billion dollar highway. 280 koalas receive medical care."

"Koalas wearing blue tracking collars have been found entangled in a soccer net, mauled by a dog, and lost in suburbia."
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au.news.yahoo.com/photos-revea
#Koalas #roads #highway #cars #dogs #suburbia #GoldCoast #sprawl #harm #offsets #biodiversity #destruction #GlenifferRoad #wildlife #tagging #entanglement #Australia

Yahoo News · Photos reveal grim 'clean up' as koalas flee secretive highway projectBy Michael Dahlstrom
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BellingenNSW

NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse decline
"Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme."

"Henry’s review found the state’s environment laws would not succeed without substantial changes and warned half of the species under threat in NSW were on course to become extinct within the next 100 years"

End native forest logging and land clearing now!
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theguardian.com/australia-news
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1earthmedia.com/minns-responds
#Biodiversity #conservation #restoration #ecosystems #destruction #NSWlogging #offsets #LandClearing #NaturePositive #transparency #NSW #law #legislation #extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #EndNativeForestLogging

The Guardian · NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse declineBy Lisa Cox
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BellingenNSW

Australia’s system of biodiversity offsets

"A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds."

"A review of some of the areas chosen for nature restoration as part of Australia’s biodiversity offset system has found a third are in worse condition than before, prompting fresh warnings that the scheme is increasing the risk of animals going extinct."

"Biodiversity offsetting is a policy used around Australia. The system allows developers to compensate for the environmental damage they cause in one area by pledging work to deliver an equivalent or greater benefit in another."

"The system was allowing places and species to be “continually chipped away at until there is nothing left” Martine Lappan, Australian Conservation Foundation investigator."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #offsets #biodiversity #laws #conservation #failure #NaturePositive #koalas #wildlife #extinction makers #Australia

The Guardian · A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit findsBy Lisa Cox
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