Maybe there was some really good tv, so people stayed in? Was that when the new season of Hypnotoad came out?

^Source - reddit^

At the moment, I just feel grief. For nature and for all the innocent people who are going to be annihilated by our war-mongering leaders and the industries that thrive on all the destruction and ruin.

Seventy percent of coal mined is exported

Worth noting that these data probably don't include emissions enabled by our exports. Those emissions should be counted against us, but are not.

Hmm, looks like our emissions were dropping from 2012 to 2014, before starting to rise again after that. I wontder what happened between 2012 and 2014 to cause that?

The majority of nations have grown in population. In 2005 there were nearly 6.6 billion people in the world and now there's about 8.3. A higher population plays a role no doubt, but given our exposure to sunlight and the amount of space we have in Oz, we should have done a lot better than what we have. Seventy percent of coal mined is exported (Wikipedia) and 80% of gas (Australian Institute), so our population is not the main driver of the emissions our fossil fuels produce. Imo, our governments have not done enough to extend solar power. We could be way ahead than we are now. Too many vested interests.

tbf we have added 8 million people since then

making australia nearly a 3rd larger than it was at the time (from 20 million to 28 million)

I tend to agree with you and with James Steph. Nevertheless, imo to give up and say it's all too late is to be complicit with or subjugated by the spiritual and cultural decay of our time. That is exactly what the current 'system' wants: us falling into "I can't save anyone else so I'll save myself" and/or "I don't feel I can do anything so I won't do anything", nihilistically and even cynically watching the Titanic sink (and even want it to sink) - i.e. inhumanity.

Every act of care for nature and humanity counts. For example, if you needed help (for whatever reason) and someone stepped up and offered that help spontaneously, you would feel that within you and it would be life-giving for you and for them. If we lose this, we have caved in to techno-barbarism and given up our aliveness and being real.

Alas it's too late, sure if we switched tomorrow we could but any change would take decades eg banning private cars etc and we are still doing nearly everything wrong (electric cars, more coal mines, more gas, stupidity like gold mining, AI, Bitcoin etc).

This isn't an engineering or scientific problem, we have all the tech and science we need We've de-evolved (?) and modern society truly lacks the ability to understand that the laws of nature always supplant human entitlement

I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don't know how to do that." -James Speth

The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.70174 (not free)

I hate news articles that do not link to their sources and I hate paywalled science. If people have no legal or free way of verifying the claims made then they'll choose sides from these news articles based on rhetoric, not science.

Fire ant toad with a little varroa mite sprinkled to taste.

Anyone got a fire ant toad to try?

Gee we are shit at biocontrol

Some of the gifts of eucalypts:

• The Medicinal Properties and Bush Foods of Eucalypts https://anpsa.org.au/APOL9/mar98-2.html
• https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/nature-wildlife/2024/02/why-eucalypts-are-survival-experts/
• https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and-learn/watch-listen-read/three-reasons-why-eucalypts-are-australian-icon

if they are anything like the Mediterranean saltbush, they are already delicious.

dry them and they are a salty snack. crumble over a salad or anything for salt.

Or a wallaby. The ones at my place took a real shine to the saltbush.

I've had old man saltbush sprinkled in salads and in soups and it's fine.

You need a sheep for that

That's great, now make it palatable..

~$416 a tree.

🤣 The USA? Might have been a bit out of kooka territory! 🤣

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I super appreciate your reply on this, I got distracted and sent this without the punchline: I was 6 and this was in the USA lol

That was cool. I particularly liked his tries and fails at pronouncing local names of things. He came so close with Jarrah.

That’s one very well aged marsupial

Great news! All states should be doing the same.