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#extractivism

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BellingenNSW

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?

"Over the past decade, more than 550 Australian species have been either newly recognised as at risk of extinction or moved a step closer to being erased from the planet."

"Analysis shows 1,964,200 hectares of koala habitat was cleared between 2012 and 2021 – 81% of that in Queensland."

"Australia tops global rankings for mammal extinction – at least 33 species have died out since European invasion and colonisation – and is number two behind Indonesia for loss of biodiversity. The challenge is not only to stop the loss of habitat but to restore the environment in places it has been lost in 250 years of European-driven clearing."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#biodiversity #ecosystems #loss #nature #wildlife #koalas #care #biosphere #laws #deforestation #extractivism #SettlerSociety #destruction #extinction #pollution #sprawl #housing #governance #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels

The Guardian · Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?By Adam Morton
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#extraction #extractivism #mining #state #left #strategies

new book and talk w thea riofrancos
cenhs.libsyn.com/226-extractio

cenhs.libsyn.comCultures of Energy: 226 - Extraction (feat. Thea Riofrancos)Cymene and Dominic advise universities on how to handle blackmailers and wish a certain daughter a happy birthday on this sweet sixteen episode of the podcast. Then (13:40) Dominic chats with the brilliant Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (now available for pre-order from WW Norton ). We start with extraction as a difficult topic for the Left and then turn toward why people are talking so much about "critical minerals" of late. We discuss her travels to lithium frontiers like Chile and Nevada and Thea puts forth an important distinction between extraction and extractivism. Thea explains how resistance can be world-making, and how writing for broad audiences makes you a sharper theorist. We close with the backstory to one of her latest collaborative projects, the , how it grew out of pandemic-era efforts to catalyze a green stimulus, and how it now acts, among other things, to shape green policy and build supply-chain solidarity.
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BellingenNSW

NT parliament passes CLP government's territory coordinator bill
The Northern Territory government has passed the territory coordinator bill through parliament, giving it the power to override dozens of regulatory laws relevant to projects of "economic significance".
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abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/nt-

The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages

"42% of NT residents speak a non-English language at home. Only half of eligible Aboriginal residents in the NT are enrolled to vote, and voter participation is even lower. Recognition – Rejecting someone’s language means rejecting their identity. Reconciliation is not just something parliamentarians should direct others to do, it’s something that needs to happen within parliament itself."

"The NT is a rich, multilingual society. How can the Legislative Assembly claim to fully represent the breadth of NT society when it chooses to be monolingual?"
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theconversation.com/the-englis
#governance #EconomicSignificance #laws #regulation #conservation #language #IndigenousPeoples #participation #NT #monolingualism #language #mining #extractivism #zeitgeist

ABC News · NT parliament passes CLP government's territory coordinator billBy Jack Hislop
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BellingenNSW

Continuing the trajectory towards extinction...

"Greenpeace chief executive David Ritter said Australia was a global deforestation and extinction hot spot.The declaration of a Great Koala National Park that addresses our deforestation and extinction crises is long overdue."
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canberratimes.com.au/story/890
#BiodiversityCrisis #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extinction #NSWLogging #FCNSW #Australia #extractivism

SAVE PINE CREEK POSTER, detail
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BellingenNSW

"Digging dams in sensitive environments"

"A commercial farming company (Green Leaf Australia Group) and one of its directors have together been fined close to $300,000, for constructing and using dams without approval and impacting a "nationally significant" freshwater wetland in northern New South Wales."

"...The court found that some of the offences involved removing vegetation and clearing land, which caused harm to the environment, including nationally significant freshwater wetlands listed as endangered ecological communities.

"It's not just the environmental harm but also the Aboriginal cultural harm that's occurred though this offending, which Magistrate Scott Nash described as 'reckless and motivated for financial gain,'" Ms Stockley said."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/300
#wetlands #ecosystems #water #biodiversity #Ramsar #conservation #NSW #MidNorthCoast #ClybuccaAboriginalArea #harm #landclearing #irrigation #FinancialGain #extractivism

ABC News · Green Leaf Australia Group and director fined for illegal dams in wetlandBy Emma Siossian
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BellingenNSW

Extinction is a choice

"The Albanese government took power in May 2022, it pledged to end “wilful neglect” of the environment and to introduce stronger environmental laws "

"Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has been taken to court over 11 threatened species. Here’s why
Today, environmental group the Wilderness Society launched a case in the Federal Court against Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, arguing she and successive environment ministers have failed to meet their legal obligations to create threatened species recovery plans."
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theconversation.com/environmen
#Biodiversity #extinction #Australia #WilfulNeglect #laws #SettlerSociety #extractivism #ecocide

The ConversationEnvironment Minister Tanya Plibersek has been taken to court over 11 threatened species. Here’s whyThousands of Australian species and ecological communities are threatened – and many don’t have a recovery plan in place.
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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 assetsThe first-of-its kind report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics looks beyond GDP to a broader measurement of what nature is really worth.
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BellingenNSW

Getting Australia out of climate denial?

Get more sympathetic media coverage by involving the blokes from "resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics"
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nature.com/articles/s44168-025

Farmers, investors, miners and parents:
how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences "Holdout groups in Australia can include people associated with political conservatism, the business sector, farming, the resource sector, some religious groups and some sports fans."
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theconversation.com/farmers-in
#climate #climatedenial #RealityDenial #extractivism #industry #MasculineNorms #conflict #msm #media #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction

NatureTheorising unconventional climate advocates and their relationship to the environmental movement - npj Climate ActionEnvironmentalist-identified advocates have contributed to high levels of public support for climate action across countries. However, there remain important holdout constituencies that theory and evidence suggest are less likely to be persuaded by environmentalists, especially constituencies associated with resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics. Emerging from these holdout constituencies, though, are some novel advocates for climate action. In this paper we theorise ‘unconventional climate advocates’ as those who combine advocacy for climate action with a social identity that departs from the prototypical environmentalist identity. Using social network analysis we show that unconventional climate advocates in Australia are peripheral to the main environmental movement, that is, the conventional advocates for climate action. We contend that unconventional advocates can broaden the social base of support for climate action, and their independence from conventional advocates – environmentalists – may aid in their efforts.
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BellingenNSW

"The inherited pro-extinction settings remain – bugger the country."

"If the majority of the community – by definition, the political centre – is resolutely against the destruction of the natural world, why is our political and regulatory system stuck on the “kill” setting?"

" We have the ignominious distinction of having among the highest rates of deforestation and species extinction in the world. Even the koala is listed as endangered in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory."
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au/topic/
#extinction #lobby #extractivism #ResourceFrontiers #WA #ecocide #Biodiversity #koalas #ecosystems #collapse #FossilFuels #NatureNegative #destruction

The Saturday Paper · WA must not dictate nature policyBy David Ritter
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Radical Anthropology

Communities in #Nigeria take #Shell to court for oil spills

At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI

JUSTICE OVERDUE: Activists stage an ‘Ecocide Babe’ stunt outside The Royal Courts Of Justice, central London where the Ogale and Bille communities v Shell hearing is taking place

NIGERIA has suffered hundreds of oil leaks and spills from Shell’s infrastructure in the country. Devastated by the contamination of their land and water sources, the Bille and Ogale communities have successfully put the oil giant in the dock at the London High Court after a decade-long struggle.

#fossilfuels #EnvironmentalLaw #extractivism #pollution #colonialism #ecocide

morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

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BellingenNSW

Humans are making it increasingly difficult for wildlife to live and reproduce.

Sprawl, accelerated fossil fuel mobility via motor engines and roaming introduced canines makes survival for other than humans risky or impossible. The prosthetic apparatuses of 'man' sends its noisy and polluting tentacles into every nook and cranny where bio-diversity still dwells - 24/7.
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theconversation.com/five-ways-
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #ecocide #cars #roads #traffic #pets #lawns #machines #pollution #noise #waste #harm #technosphere #HumanDisturbance #extractivism #monoculture #fossilfuels #mowing #deforestation #LoggingImpacts

All fossil fuel stuff
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BellingenNSW

Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests

"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."

The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk

YouTubeTuckers Nob Info Night 17 Feb 25By Tim Cadman
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