I hope there will be some action we can take soon.

The ones that were introduced to NZ were the brushtail possums. This little one which has been identified as threatened resides in the North Qld tropical rainforest.

So let’s not read and get depressed, take some sort of action: political: e.g. write or talk to your local MP, even your local councillor, support environment organisations with petitions and submissions or volunteering at events, practical: plant native shrubs or trees that will help your local wildlife, join a Landcare or bush regeneration group, become a transporter (or wildlife carer) for volunteer wildlife care groups, creative: create art related to nature and share it with others, go to workshops, read nature stories to your children, collect treasures in the bush and turn them into artworks with your kids or grandkids, monetary: donate to environmental causes that are meaningful to you, personal: commune with nature, look at the plants and animals around you, listen to their voice and the voice of the sea, the wind.
Get cranky, get passionate but don’t give up if you love nature. It will love you back.

Yep, that makes sense. I could put up more posts but I don’t want to overdo it in case people don’t like to be ‘flooded’ with info they’re not interested in.

https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7752/40-year-effort-to-green-Chinese-desert-shows

If you want to take an action email Finance Minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, and tell her Australia’s budget priorities must change. This blog piece gives you the pointers on what to write: https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-australian-government-spends-26-times-more-harming-nature-than-protecting-it?cid=041a981b-853b-4355-a7b0-1182c033c5f6

The key point of this interesting article, imo, is that we have to start planning NOW for what is up ahead. This is not happening as urgently as it should so we need to ask our esteemed politicians what they are doing to prepare all the different communities and ecosystems so they may be better protected and also our food security is not put in jeopardy. We should ask them straight out and test their understanding and what solid strategies they have in mind. It’d be ‘interesting’ to hear what they have to say.

There seems to be a lot of posts in this community focusing on the negative. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m not aware of the situation we are in, but can we look also at what we CAN do to make a positive difference? Maybe some of us oldies have a death wish but for the sake of the young and for the sake of the innocent plants and animals let’s find ways to go counter to the greed or helpless status quo.

And our government keeps approving fossil fuel projects. So if the signal given is that fossil fuels are viable of course banks and investors will continue putting money into them. Their objective in life is profit first, whereas you would think that our governments’ objectives would be the present and future welfare of the people they represent.

Yup, that’s the picture I put up.

I did understand what you meant (I think). You mentioned ‘better transport’ and for me that would involve greater investment in public transport and transport that doesn’t just have one person per vehicle but can move groups more flexibly and cleanly. If EVs where to be subsidised it might be worth subsidising people on lower incomes and people in group households (family or otherwise). Subsidising the well-off is just subsidising them for brandishing another status symbol.

There’s also the BYD Atto which is below 30K![] (https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/a06ebd6e-c8a1-4a21-872a-593ead1a5388.jpeg)

Because they are more interested in profits than in contributing to climate solutions.

Electric public transport and/or small businesses with small electric buses and more flexible routes. The latter would be particularly useful for our growing aging popuation.

Thank you. I’ll check the video out.

I commiserate. I’m in Qld too and live in Nat Party heartland. We’re getting a local coal mine expanded (federal govt approval) and everyone seems to be happy as. I feel nauseated that despite the growing cyclones, floods, heatwaves and drought (depending where you are in the state) no one seems to care. It appears nobody’s appears have asked what will happen with all the toxic water that coal mines release into the environment when there’s a flood (as has happened recently in which millions of litres being released into the GBR catchment). We are in cropping and cattle country and have amazing but dwindling wildlife due to a growth in tree changers and subdivisions plus of course the effect of expansion of grazing land and now an increased threat from a larger coalmine. Obscene.

Perhaps it’s taking a shortcut. 😜

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All of us, including scientists, CAN be part of spiritual and cultural transformation. There are forces that seek to block the transformation so we must consciously become aware of this and commit ourselves to forging ahead through our own understanding, self-work and action for nature, the young, and for sanity.

Totally agree.