Of course it's an understatement but remember they are attempting to reach all sides of politics and civil groups. Unfortunately, in today's political climate, if they got too bolshie they'd be compromising their position. Their research carries more weight if they are restrained in their comments. Some sectors of the community switch off otherwise, like they do with the Greens. What annoys me is that Labor knows what is at stake and is choosing to be the replacement for the LNP when it comes to the environment. They don't seem to even give a toss what LEAN has to say.

Nature underpins Australia’s economy and wellbeing - continuing to run down our natural assets while failing to adequately invest in their recovery is environmentally and economically short-sighted.

That's an understatement, the biosphere underpins all life on Earth, including ours.

Nearly everything we are doing is wrong and this callous disregard will inevitably lead to the collapse of civilisation as we rush head long through the sixth mass extinction event in the planets history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmnQD3QHeY

What a disappointment to not throw everything at green hydrogen production.

Yes, FFFS (extra 'F'ing)! Makes no sense unless we want to maintain our servile status which we seem to be great at. Yeah, let's be great at that 😠

Some positive enviro-related budget news:

The electric vehicle fringe benefits tax discount will be retained in full until the end of March 2027. After that the full FBT discount will only apply to vehicles worth less than $75,000 and provided by the start of April 2029. Those worth more than $75,000 will be eligible for a 25% discount. The 25% rate will apply to all EVs provided after that date and all eligible EVs will retain the rate that was in place when the arrangement began. There will also be $40m to install more kerbside and regional chargers. - The Guardian

Ongoing, steady support of the renewable energy industry is all they're asking for. Instead they get constant policy uncertainty.

If Chris Bowen isn't seething about this he should be, this is the second big hit his portfolio has had to take because the politics are uncomfortable for the PM. The first was the humiliating crab walk away from hosting COP31.

Fuck that smoke and ash was rough last week. We had to redo two loads of washing that were drying on the line.

I's once at a bonfire night and these siblings were just sat there staring into the fire and started chuckin their glow sticks in. No discernible reason, just to watch something burn i suppose.

Where is the honest government ad on this topic? Clean air? Nah go fuck yourself Australia!

Too much push back, you would never be elected , it's the reasons The Greens hold so little power.

It's one reason I am on the edge of a small rural town on a couple acres in Tasmania, clean air. Use an ev, solar panels and heat pumps. Launceston is as toxic as hell this time of year, thick with woodsmoke and anytime i walk through my little town to the library and one of of the trucks hauling; logs, milk, diesel, potatoes, cattle etc goes past... the stench of diesel exhaust fumes :( let alone the endless assholes parked in their idling cars and checking thier phones in bigger towns

Good luck with any of this changing.

Where is the honest government ad on this topic? Clean air? Nah go fuck yourself Australia!

From the W.A. experience:

The law has nothing to prevent people who smoulder green wood and literally burn plastic rubbish in their wood heaters. Nothing. Maybe the local council will offer to drop a pamphlet off at their house if they get enough complaints from neighbors. Cunts living in fucking 350sqm lots 5km from the CBD with wood heaters... seriously. They should only be allowed on 5hectare + properties in order to keep them away from dense population and to simply dilute the level of pollution they put out.

IMO the tax policies that encouraged people in to using diesel utes / SUVs as mum taxis and urban commuter vehicles was a huge fuck up by the federal government. It will only cost the tax payer more over time due to having to pay for more insurance / medicare to cover all the health issues it caused. The auto manufactures should be made to fucking pay for it. Go look on any 4wd related social media page. Dickheads there will be jerking themselves off in delight that their child squasher mobile with no functioning diesel emission controls is fucking children right in the lungs. Whether it's because they have deleted all of the emission controls, or they are driving some ancient thing that never had it to start with they shouldn't even be on the road in cities.

In W.A. we also have the DBCA (department for burning cute animals). Every time the wind is blowing towards major population centers they set fire to huge swathes of forest 10s of km from where anyone actually lives in order to hit some made up quota of "hazard reduction burning". There is no scientific consensus for this method and a growing amount of evidence against this method.

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Thanks @arbilp3. Love seeing your posts and learning about our natural heritage. I only saw my first platypus in the wild a couple of years ago. It was so beautiful to see and I go to that spot regularly with my kids to watch it for them. On a side note, I've been teaching my youngest to call them platypus billed ducks when we see ducks at the pond 😂🤣

modernity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmnQD3QHeY

and everything we're dumping is making it worse.

If humanity survives ocean cruises will have to be one of the weirdest things we ever did.

Good. Mainland worldwide at the time was analogous to being on a cruise now.

As in a good way, or like as in a bad way like being on a cruise?

March 2020... what a great time to be out in the middle of the ocean.

An amazing life and a special gift to humanity that is beyond words
Happy Birthday David Attenborough

And 100 more! 🥳

Calm down, everyone, he’s still alive.

Nice, thanks. I might tune in

Hope it works... really hope.

I'm not looking forward to 'a dry, warm winter'. Where I live in Qld the rain has been scant already.

In case you're interested I've jus found out there's an online pubic talk on the insect apocalypse by the Uni of Tasmania in June: https://www.utas.edu.au/events/2026/june/understanding-the-insect-apocalypse

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Sir David Attenborough (left)

Sorry to hear that. He has brought a lot of awareness but of course we have stuffed up so much of the natural world.