I wish you every success. We need people like you.

Unfortunately, the typical Australian rural person (not even just farmers) are backwards fucking morons

I say this as someone living in regional Australia

I watched cotton farmers destroy the environment, and then whine when they were wiped out by floods and land stripped of nutrients

I watch the hunger for ever-greater profits cause the very animals that make the profit die in the millions

And it's driven by the owners of the farms, who aren't even Australian, and they boast of their record profits to the employees who they exploit

I fucking hate them, and I'm working to get out, and hopefully be able to do something to enact change

I'm no Unidan as I am am not an ecologist but I'd be ecstatic if we had an Aussie Unidan here, just not one into vote fraud.

from voters and thus the politicians.

Human entitlement vs Laws of Nature, gunna be brutal.

There's so much apathy...

Oh i get you, yeah that sounds right. Jimmy the Giant just had a show on early 2000's subcultures where he referred to the diminishing of third places for young people to be meaning they don't have their own space to develop as an individual group. He gave the examples of skaters, goths, and parkour.

I feel like playgrounds are busier than when I was a kid but there's less kids out on the street if that makes sense.

Feels like the kids don't run about by themselves any more. Ir maybe it's the parents driving them everywhere

Maybe people do use parks more? I'm not sure.

Theres a lot more stuff inside our houses to do now, and I seem to remember reading an article saying we are spending less time outdoors and drawing the connection between that and the increasing demand for larger houses. So maybe thats part of the reason why the outdoor equipment is pushed up against each other, because its all used so rarely anyway.

Of course the magpies start to dismantle it for parts immediately after figuring out it wasn't useful for anything else.

Ah, Unidan, the jackdaws pine for you still....

The lack of space around most houses in new estates means that people have to use those shared spaces more. Though we will still see that trampoline squashed up against the swing in many of these houses.

Just remembered: the wallaby that was startled was a juvenile while an adult one had a good look and even looked behind the mirror to see if there was a wallaby there, using logic after sniffing the mirror. Some really interesting responses. And for the fatty echidna not even registered 😆

I suppose thats the problem with these kind of current event round-ups, a trade-off of less details for more categories. I see these three quotes that are probably the most relevent parts of the article.

John Grimes chimed in at the celebration, saying China had sold more electric trucks in one year in 2025 compared to Australia’s entire diesel fleet

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is flagging a $25.3 million in funding for electric truck charging provider NewVolt to deliver three open-access, fast-charging hubs. The hubs will be for medium to heavy electric trucks and built along major freight corridors

New Energy Transport, which operates a fleet of fully electric trucks powered by wholesale renewable energy

😂

Birds: That bird is HOT!

"Yo, baby, whatsup? Check out my little song and dance.
Yeah, you know I've got it going on!"

Wallabies: "DAFUQ IS THAT?!? GTFOH!"

What kind or electric trucks? Pretty much no one is making them currently in decent numbers. And why concentrate on transport? Fix generation first. Australian EV are mostly running on coal these days.

This is true. Its also resulting in negative community and social effects where free and open community spaces are going into disuse or disappearing entirely as those that can afford to purchase more activities forbthwmsleves to do privately.

I thought about this only this morning as I passed a house that had a big trampoline squashed up against a big round tree swing (rendering the tree swing unusable). I'm sure its nice to have both, but was it that necessary?

The majority of people exposed continuously to mainstream media in the majority of nations are being sold the same story including in our own. You can't fault anyone for wanting to live a more comfortable life but in 'advanced' economies we have made excess our sickness (literally) and plundered the world around us.

Yet billions want to live like we do 😢

Meanwhile, New Energy Transport, which operates a fleet of fully electric trucks powered by wholesale renewable energy, has progressed further with its trial last year to replace diesel trucks for Who Gives a Crap.

...

The heavy truck maintained high speeds along the entire route, including the steep Skyline and Governess hills near Goulburn, where diesel trucks usually struggle and completed their journey 25 minutes faster. The truck was also 84 per cent lower in energy costs compared to a diesel truck.

And battery technology is in the nascent era of development compared to ICE vehicles. If people want profuctivity gains try doing something that saves the planet. Seems to work out pretty well, when someone actually has a go.

what shocks ? we have all the coal in the world as well as all the gas. We're a petro state.

They've done some great work.

You're so right. That's why we have to do all we can to save them. 🦜 🦅 🦉 🐦‍⬛ 🦆

We are so lucky in Australia. I can hear a beautiful warbling right now as I type this. And also the distant "ark-aaaaaa" of a crow.

I hope we can help these little guys make it.

While EVs have been a thing for a while, historically emissions would not have been a significant consideration: in most places most electricity would still have originated from fossil sources (including coal!). That has only changed with the recent increase in renewables.

For many people the issue is that they can't afford an EV. Sadly those ICE cars are still more common (and oftentimes, cheaper...), and hence easier and cheaper to obtain second hand. With current fuel prices EVs would be a no brainer, but if you can't get or buy one, i.e. due to lack of money, you would be stuck with it.

And maybe: if society punishes those that take action for climate (by making such desirable actions cost money), that may be a problem in itself.

Alternatives to driving (rather than EVs) would be a better solution in any case - pollution by tires is a real thing - but transit access often correlates with higher housing prices, and new housing and public transit developments take a while.

Rather than blaming those that need their car due to society being designed around it, I'd rather blame those that had a hand in designing it this way (and maybe those that choose to drive in a fossil-powered car, despite having money or have exceedingly good access to public transit to where they want to go).

Most animals in the wild find barely enough food to survive. That's why you won't find a lot of fat animals there. This is also the reason why we're so fat nowadays. We don't have an off switch for food because there was no selective pressure to develop one. Food scarcity was normal.