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BellingenNSW

"Growth regulatory creep" word salad from the "growth mindset"

"A system that dampens growth": "regulatory hairballs"
A "growth mindset means elevating growth and its benefits across all policy decisions".
"The growth of regulatory burden."
"Unconstrained regulation dampens productivity."
"The need to cut red tape to make it faster to approve."
"Employing digital tools to streamline approval processes."
"Deregulation is the answer."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/dan

The Good Life Beyond Growth:

"This book argues that a good life beyond growth is not only possible, but highly desirable. Efforts to restore growth politically, however, often lead to reduced levels of social protection, reduced ecological and health standards, unfair tax burdens and rising inequalities. Thus it is time to dissolve the link between economic growth and the good life. The political and social conditions of a good life in societies which no longer rely on economic growth and no longer call for an ever expanding circle of extraction, consumption, pollution, waste, conflict, and psychological burnout."
routledge.com/The-Good-Life-Be
Rosa, H.; Henning, C. (eds.) (2017): The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives, Routledge 2017.
#language #growth #regulation #governance #MSM #environment #EPBCAct #extractivism #AI #traffic #biodiversity #TheGoodLife

ABC News · Focus narrows on reducing regulation to boost productivity ahead of round tableBy Maani Truu
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Mark Burton

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
lab.org.uk/bolivia-burning-we-

Latin America Bureau · Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America BureauIn a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin
#Bolivia#ecocide#ChristianFundamenalism
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BellingenNSW

“We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world.” Dr Ken Henry

"Human treatment of the environment represents possibly the dumbest choice we have collectively made – and consistently been making for decades."
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #ClimateBreakdown #extractivism #industry #destruction #mindsets #environment #IntergenerationalBastardry

The Guardian · Protecting the environment has always made economic sense. Now we have proofBy Nicki Hutley
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BellingenNSW

Australian wealth inequality frays the social fabric

"The top 10% of households now control 44% of all wealth in Australia. The collective wealth of the richest 200 Australians has nearly tripled over two decades, mostly from property and resources – economic activities that extract value from existing assets rather than new productive capacities; what economists call “rent-seeking”.

"Rent-seeking concentrates wealth away from productivity-enhancing investments – in business innovation, public infrastructure and worker wages. This leaves ordinary people paying ever-higher proportions of their income for necessities. Ordinary Australians have little to celebrate."
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#inequality #WealthCapture #RentSeeking #housing #rentierism #unproductivity #ActiveProduction #wages #extractivism

The Guardian · ‘Neoliberalism lite’ is no solution to Australia’s cost-of-living and productivity crises. We must curb wealth concentrationBy Guardian staff reporter
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cacu

🌍 Cartography of generative AI

cartography-of-generative-ai.n

The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
Raw materials GEN AI
#AI#extractivism#generativeAI
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BellingenNSW

Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires"

"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

Grist · The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.By Joseph Winters
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Thomas Barrio

@davevolek We should never forget that the modern #comfortism of the (Western) centers would never be possible without the #colonialRelationships that the #centers maintain with the #peripheries, nor without #extractivism. All of this will one day or another have to be called into #question. The least we could do "while waiting" for this or these days is to thoroughly rethink our #politics, or as I call it in reference to #Serres (the end of the city), our #cosmolitics.

homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

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Bruce Broomhall

Extractivist elites have mobilized the governments of #Canada, both federal and provincial, to adopt legislation and policy in favour of #mining, #FossilFuel and #forestry interests - in the name of nation-building and 'standing up' to #Trump.

Believe it at your peril. #FirstNations, #Climate and #environmental activists are not duped.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from himBy Guardian staff reporter
#Indigenous#Extractivism#NaturalResources
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BellingenNSW

Fixing outdated environmental laws (the EPBC Act)
Destruction as usual ?

“Australians are tired of the bush being bulldozed and burnt and elected a government that will act on nature and on climate." They expect "sweeping changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) in the next 18 months."

"The past failures, combined with the approval of major fossil fuel projects and the rushed passage of laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry, have environmentalists worried about Labor’s second term."

"Environmental organisations also want an end to the “climate blindness” of Australia’s environmental laws, an end to loopholes such as the effective exemption granted to logging under regional forest agreements, and a clearer focus on what’s needed for the recovery of threatened species."

"Corporate Australia needed to “leave its bludgeons at the door” as the process started afresh."

"Ending habitat loss was the “bottom line outcome”, ...meaning that native forest logging and agricultural land clearing must be addressed in some form."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FastTrackApprovals #extractivism #destruction #SamuelReview #LoggingIndustry #landclearing #FossilFuels #CorporateAustralia

The Guardian · Environmentalists worry as Labor seeks consensus on new federal nature lawsBy Dan Jervis-Bardy
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BellingenNSW

Australia is a global deforestation hotspot,
ranked second in the world for biodiversity loss due to forest and bushland destruction
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greenpeace.org.au/our-work/for

"Deforestation in Colombia fell 33%
year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 to 27,052 hectares due to agreements with communities and a greater presence of the state and the Armed Forces, the environment ministry said"
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reuters.com/sustainability/cli
#deforestation #destruction #LoggingIndustry #biodiversity #NSW #Australia #extractivism #governance

Greenpeace Australia PacificDeforestation - Greenpeace Australia PacificDeforestation is a threat we need to tackle urgently. We have lost the majority of the worlds forests it's vital to save what's left.
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