There is no such thing as a free lunch
Are international declarations on the environment worth the paper they’re printed on? Based on the way the Australian Government treats them, they’re not worth anything. Consider what the Australian Government has said recently about forests and climate change
If the Hawke Government were an environmental policy student in 1985, its report card would start with an A+, followed by a string of D’s. The card would bear the teacher’s comment that ‘this talented student has lost interest and is skipping class’
Could we, in the name of curing the current big corona crisis, end up accelerating the next big crisis, brought on by environmental decline?
What’s in Australia’s decadal Environmental Report Card? By Peter Burnett The OECD has just...