The Labor party has a legacy of action for the natural world. Now is the time for us to do better | Felicity Wade
I was wondering if I remember all my sudden confrontations with animals in the wild.
I remember that I was completely sitting on the bank of the river, watching a group of its works descending from dusk, through a registration road on the borders of the World Heritage area in Tasmania. And Mous in Yukon, he made a mistake from rubbing at the maximum speed in front of us, as he was terrified and amazing as we were. Something huge, my vision is full of mousse. It turned and continued in the screws. Summer evenings in the THREDBO, where Wombat makes a strange silent guard, chewing grass while worried humans and texture gas stoves, and the pressure of the murals cooking.
I remember them because they are moments of this blatant joy. It is usually quiet times in the light of the soft evening. Australian animals are usually silent and preserved. These moments are rare.
In the way of oil and water, my love for nature is expressed through deepening in the political process, with all its mandate and ignorance. I sit in the heart of a major political party, Labor PartyTry to build the bridge where we are where we need to be. This may seem Quixotic, but I prefer to resign sadness.
Politics may not solve it. But this is our best.
Work has a deep legacy to work for the natural world. The government brought and brought the environment to the heart of government. In 1983, one of the first actions of the Bob Hook government was the protection of the Franklin River from the Kahromia Dam. Hawke finished cutting the rain trees, expanding the Kakado National Park, and led the international campaign to ban mining in Antarctica and began to work to reduce greenhouse gases, and appeared with his granddaughter in a 1988 documentary on climate change.
But the legacy is the first twentieth century.
The past two decades have been controlled by responding to climate change. In the policy economy, the climate has taken all the environment space. Finding the way to a safer climate was not easy, as the conservatives and the interests gained armed it at every step, but the Labor Party has risen in this term and move under implementation. The gradual collapse, but the appointed from the biological ocean threatens us just like a warming planet. The political and political response was not enough.
If it is re -elected, it’s time now to work better. Governments cannot do only a certain number of things at one time, and we have skipped the process of reforming the environmental law in this term. The strength and fierceness of the interests gained the difficulty of changing the balance between trade and land.
But last week, he has a prime minister Reform and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Authority. Re -written laws are the basis that we can turn on. Central innovation is the creation of national standards, and the rules through which decisions are taken on the environment. With the appropriate application by the Independent Environmental Protection Agency, there is an opportunity to start processing our horrific record for supervision.
But it will take more than laws. And more than money. This will only happen with strong and clear leadership. There is a complex set of community capabilities and situations that need to support how to live well on our continent. And an interlocking chaos of interrelated responsibilities at various levels of the government to address. We will also need incentives to make businesses look at their effects on unstable natural capital mines.
All this is possible in a political point of view because Australia is specific through its strange and wonderful environment. It constitutes our culture, it maintains our free time, and represents who we are. As social researcher Rebecca Hintley says, “Twenty years of searching for what Australians believe is unique to our country, it is not” central “or” love of sport “but our unique natural places and iconic animals. We know that they envy the world, and what distinguishes us.”
This fact is one of the strong political origins that can be used. Treating the Australian extinction crisis and the decline in our environment will not become possible because society decides that this is the source of their first concern, because it will be because political leaders adopt it and argue in the issue, focusing on our national pride in our place.
