Australia's environment in 'shocking' decline, report finds - BBC News

Australia's environment is in a shocking state and faces further decline from amplifying threats, according to an anticipated report.
The survey of Australia's ecological systems - conducted every five years - found widespread abrupt changes.
These can be blamed on climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and mining, it said.
Australia has vowed to cut carbon emissions by 43% on 2005 levels by 2030.
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[@Giselle-gx3iz]

Shocking!!?! Seriously? Like we haven’t been warned about this since at least the past 60 years if not more?

[@lanycera]

I think it was easy to ignore. I mean look at the people and governments now. Even with the floods, draughts, record heat waves and fires we're still not doing any rapid / urgent changes or climate conferences which actually put plans into action. I think we're way too late, and it sucks for the next generation.

[@Giselle-gx3iz]

@@lanycera not only the next generation but us too. We can’t have the mindset of “oh well”, the time is now or never for us to organize and fight for a better world or we’re all done. Now we are all fully aware so now let’s actually do the best we can and get involved with saving ourselves and future generations

[@sebastianguerre6868]

I'm not shocked. 99% of all species had become extinct before there were Homo sapiens on the planet, why wouldn't the trend continue?

[@Giselle-gx3iz]

@@mr.metallic5310 what does that mean?

[@Giselle-gx3iz]

@@mr.metallic5310 your point ?

[@tayloreverard2039]

What politics has forgotten is that climate doesn't exist on the cyclical economic system. This isn't a climate recession that will bounce back with some smart policy. It's forever. Every human alive and born for at least the next 100 years will live their whole life "in a climate crisis". Agree completely with her use of the word shame.

[@bogeyonanostrilhair9568]

And you're as mainstream brainwashed as they come. Climate change has been around since the earth was birthed, and will continue even if every human disappeared today. The weather disasters the world has been seeing is down to the green house effect. Completely different to global climate. Trees being cut down and land being concreted over is upsetting the greenhouse.

[@SchgurmTewehr]

Yeah, nobody in power really cares. Spark a revolution, yes literally a revolution, or give up. Read George Monbiot’s columns, that are powerful.

[@keremdelialioglu2197]

@@SchgurmTewehr I do think it's possible for Australia to preserve what's left of its environment so long as they stop trying to govern their home as if it's still a resource extraction hub

[@espurr3496]

That is politics friend, if you want change vote for it

[@BlazeAlien]

@@espurr3496 If you seriously thing voting will change the fact that multi billion dollar corporations are destroying the planet then you are very much mistaken. "If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it"

[@danielwhyatt3278]

The 2019 to 2020 Australian wildfire still sticks vividly in my mind as I’m sure it does everyone else’s. Covid quickly took over the news for the whole world and rightly so, but what happened in Australia should’ve been enough to bring real change. And yet our leaders still want to drag their feet, even with what is happening in Ukraine. They are always too slow to act, never willing to make proper big compromises and this is the end result. We need to bring about systemic change and it needs to have happened yesterday.

[@redwhite_040]

It can only be done worldwide, all powerful countries together. Or what do you think what would happen if "The West" would decline their industry/wealth and others not. Other countries like China, India, Russia will take over economy and military power and might start new wars to beat the Weak West. Like we can see in Ukraine right now...

[@Battleneter]

Yep, Australia is easily one of the worst offenders per capita when it comes to emissions, and it still digging up hundreds of millions of tons of coal per year to send to China and domestic use. Everyone has to start with their own countries first and then start changing attitudes elsewhere.

[@redwhite_040]

@@Battleneter Thanks to the war in Ukraine there's a energy crisis in Europe and all countries are starting their coal plants again. It's unreal to think we can stop oil or coal right now because there will be a global energy crisis. We forgot to invest in clean Nuclear power because we think it's more dangerous than endless polution of co2.

[@kp-legacy-5477]

Bro labour wanted to implement a water bomber fleet but she liberals won they cut 50 million from fire services... The labour government does care Just had a dog shit government for 10 years

[@SchgurmTewehr]

Yeah, nobody in power really cares. Spark a revolution, yes literally a revolution, or give up. Read George Monbiot’s columns, that are powerful.

[@mrAZcardinal]

This breaks my heart. Truly does. Something about the uniqueness of Australia's ecosystems that holds a special place in many hearts- even in those who haven't even been to Australia.

[@Habib_Osman]

A heartbroken man right here. Do you also do group therapy sessions to mourn the loss of elephants, rhino's and whales? Boohoo things change. Humans dominate earth, this has an impact on everything else.. shocker!

[@ukhempahadiuk02vindrawan]

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[@bernard2735]

Sadly Environment Minister Plibersek said ‘coal has always been important part of our economy’ and ‘we are not responsible for how other countries use our coal’. What a huge disappointment.

[@TheOriginalDeckBoy]

this is simply because you need to realise china built 30 coal power plants a month for 2.5 years.. that's a lot of coal.. at the moment they buy Bgrade coal from Indonesia etc where as they would burn cleaner if using Aussie coal.. I hate this fact but it doesn't mean it's not true sadly...

[@s._3560]

​@@TheOriginalDeckBoy Since Europe doesn't want to buy Russian gas, they can buy Aussie coal instead as Aussies only want to trade with those who share their value system. Consequently, China can obtain more Russian gas, which is a cleaner source of energy; therefore they probably don't need to build so many coal power stations after all. A win-win situation for everyone on this planet. Nobody needs to blame anyone anymore.

[@TheOriginalDeckBoy]

@@s._3560 i appreciate your sentiment and wish this were the case however russia provides 40% of the gas to Europe which is far cheaper than other sources let alone the fact that many very wealthy Europeans are the major shareholders in Gazprom etc.. and when u build a plant that burns coal u can't use gas without completely changing thr engineering which takes time

[@stevec6427]

@@TheOriginalDeckBoy China does have around 1000 coal fired power stations and that is very bad but the west is at least half responsible. They need those power stations to make the crap we buy from them. The only way to keep up with demand is with coal, nuclear power stations take several years each to build and are not something to be rushed. Another point to note is that China's CO2 emissions per person are lower than either the UK or US . Same goes for India

[@billpetersen298]

@@stevec6427 Deflect deflect deflect. China developed in the modern era. They knew better, than to go cheap and nasty. But did anyway. Good luck, all of us. Take a look at their fishing fleet. If you really want a scare.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Not just coal and gas, the vast cattle farms, monocultures, what about those? Come on guys, you've been doing permaculture over there for years but you need to make it nation wide initiative if you want to protect these animals.

[@vzxvzvcxasd7109]

No, the pm there needs to protect the coal mines! And his pockets! Not animal lives or people lives...

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

The cattle farms need protected. What should stop is Chinese fracking.

[@redwhite_040]

nation wide? you mean world wide? The conditions of agriculture, cattle farms etc are worse in so many other countries. Poor animals

[@duncanmackenzie4076]

The cattle stations are low impact environmentally. They are far better then conventional farms. The cattle are open range and do far less damage than manicured agricultural kands. They also use hardly any chemicals or fertiliser as the cattle roam in savanah tropic lands where water is plentiful from wet seasons. The real problem started when Europeans landed, millions of years of isolation was broken. And the Brits ravaged the Redwood forrests and brought invasive soevies to hunt like Foxes and rabbits. New Zealand is even worse, 85% of their native fauna and flora is gone and intensive dairy has polluted their waterways beyond belief.

[@DutchDouchebag]

I feel like we should hold climate change deniers responsible up till a certain degree. This has been a matter that concerned all of us and required all of us to improve things but that was made impossible by the deranged lunatics that didnt believe in climate change and now complain that its too hot out.

[@Battleneter]

It is sad people are too freaken lazy to look at the available scientific data, and would rather follow conspiracy websites. Sadly "I told you so" is going to ring very hollow with these morons.

[@doctorbigsmiles]

They've been denying it for 50 years, but they've been misinformed by the fossil fuel industry. Do you blame the brainwashed or the brainwashers? Both I suppose

[@idakev]

Absolutely. There needs to be accountability, jeering and shame for this.

[@idakev]

@@Habib_Osman Lad, that joke is like something out of a mockumentary where they a write a joke to make the character look dumb. "Oh, it's hot on a Summer's day. Wow, must be climate change! Ah, my skin is burning! Oi, stop, climate change! Stop! haha" [dies shortly afterwards] We're talking about deniers. Why are you defending oil companies suppressing evidence of their effect on climate change for decades and paying sell outs to lie for them? Think for a second. lol

[@robbiebouchart1551]

Are you vegan??

[@emiliobello2538]

Terrible news for Australia. Australian wildlife is very rich

[@bhew7409]

and unique! Bad news for all of us.

[@truthseeker1786]

Leftwing arson has murdered so much wildlife.

[@indian_otaku2388]

Naive to think it's only the problem for Australia

[@gdewyg]

Sympathy to all affected innocent animals. They too deserve life

[@marin_1441]

Humans be like: Cut tree and mine the land And after sometime : Sorry sweet heart

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

That aldo includes us, if we carry on like we are we will either starve ourselves to desth or die from.water shortages.

[@oceandrop7666]

You better be a vegan with language like that...

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

@@oceandrop7666 I'm a farmer's wife. Many of our native breeds of cattle & sheep are at risk of extinction. Even the beautiful Suffolk punch heavy horse is now at risk of extinction because there is now little use for them and most people do not keep cattle, sheep & heavy horses as pets. In addition to this sheeps wool is natural, fire retardant and shearing sheep is necessary for their protection. Yet not a single vegan to date has explained to me how they would protect our rare livestock & how in their opinion synthetic plastic materials are better for the environment than natural sheep wool. Perhaps ypu can explain. Fyi I do not eat meat. Do you keep pet sheep or cattle?

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

@@oceandrop7666 Birds also use wool for nesting. Would you prefer they use plastic?

[@ytt8370]

Did we really need to wait 5 years for a report to know that it's all getting real bad real fast?

[@TheWebstaff]

Yeap we needed to decide how many really, really bad repetitions to use.

[@jendunggi280]

Thats Australia we pay way too much for paperwork and we wait too long to tell us the obvious

[@stevec6427]

It's more of a delay tactic so they can keep making money

[@jendunggi280]

@@stevec6427 thats how it is here in Australia,why do you think so many construction companies are going under

[@Homeschoolsw6]

There is no 5 years.

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Things should have been done in 60s and 70s but money making gets in the way. By the time any government does anything meaningful it'll be too late anyway.

[@poulthomas469]

How can you be approving coal plants at this point? That is literally insane.

[@IIISentorIII]

You can only rise to "power" in this world by going the easy way and please other people in "power" by making sure, you yourself and they are getting richer or at the very least stay rich. Therefore, you are only getting help by pleasing the 0.1% of the already rich and I don't care about people. There is literally ZERO hope that someone like Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan could EVER be in charge, therefore the best and brightest of our race are doomed to only observe. We live in the age of stupidity unfornatatly. We are all right now living in a freezer where someone left the door open and people have said for decades, we need to reduce the Kitchen temperatures to gain time so we can come up with solutions. Meanwhile the owner of the building is turning on the heat in every room. What only a few truly realise is, that even though it is warm in the freezer and getting warmer, the melting ice is acting as a buffer and keeps everything from totally collapsing. When its gone (Greenland has up to 3km thick 9842 feet ice that will be completely gone in the next 15 Years, yes in your lifetime!) The real catastrophe begins. The planet Venus is significant hotter than Mercur that is much closer to the Sun, the reason for that is that the planets atmosphär is full of Greenhouse gases ;)

[@elpatas8879]

Are U against economical growth? :V

[@poulthomas469]

@@elpatas8879 That's what's called a false choice. We don't need to use coal plants as Wind and Solar are below the cost of coal fired plants. If we continue to warm the planet then there will be no economic growth.

[@elpatas8879]

@@poulthomas469 Not while our "growth" keep on wasting resources as they were infinite, and excluding people (a big mayority) from "progress"...

[@legoshi8776]

Because our government is captured by the fossil fuel industry plus the major fossil fuel companies feed money directly into politicians hands as well as the fact they have infiltrated the majority of Australian media as well as our very own science foundation CSIRO which resulted in hundreds of professional climate scientists being fired as well as them being silenced on the matter and the heads of the scientific board were replaced by fossil fuel lobbyists so dodgy reports like the one about fracking being good to try and create scepticism against scientists so they can still continue to pump out emissions without any penalties. These fossil fuel companies also pay fuck all taxes while the rest of us continue to get rises in taxes and worst part is our government subsidises the fossil fuel company at a rate of 11 million dollars a minute which could be better spent on renewables as well as making electric cars affordable but they won't because they love the enormous wealth they get but we end up not getting a single penny of that money which leaves us worse off than if we were to move towards green energy. I'd recommend you check our thejuicemedia they make honest government ads that are both satirical and true.

[@loveanimals2675]

Amimal agriculture is the biggest problem, how long will it take for us to wake up? Science has told us this for years, we need to start listening!

[@Lily-wj9rb]

Ironic considering australia has the largest agricultural industry in the world. Its cause and effect. She states problem is renewable energy, as the real issue is too profitable to be confronted.

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

Climate change is also having a big impact, although food system is a hugely emitting sector.

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

Cattle raised on pasture is good for the earth. Mono crops, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and gmos are bad for the earth.

[@brynphillips9957]

There is a lot of factors at play but your right that agriculture is a major one. Our energy and transport sectors are probably the other two biggest, with so much gas and coal being mined here and Australia being so vast and most shipping done by truck.

[@duncanmackenzie4076]

Stranger is known near biggest agricultural producer. Is the largest organic farming producer in the world.

[@MrBrettrx7]

She's being misleading. It's the deforestation that has caused this. When they deforested most of the Island the weather patterns completely changed and the place turned into mostly desert. No trees=no rain Just 50% of Australia’s forests and bushlands remain intact compared with pre-European arrival. The other 50% has been either permanently destroyed and replaced with another land use or is classed as degraded forests and bushlands-most of which was previously cleared but now regrowing vegetation of different ages. Australia has lost 27% of our rainforest, 19% of open forest, 11% of woodland forest and 28% of mallee forest since 1750. Australia is the worst offending country in the world for mammal extinctions. Fifty-five wildlife species plus 37 plant species have gone extinct in Australia. The greatest threat to koalas in Queensland and New South Wales is habitat loss.  Our 2019 analysis found that 73% of all deforestation and land clearing in Queensland is linked to beef production. Between 2018 and 2019, over 92,718 hectares of koala habitat was cleared in Queensland in just one year. And around 73,285ha of that-or a whopping 80%-was destroyed for beef production. Carbon emissions released by land clearing across Australia are equivalent to about a third of the total emissions released by all of the coal-fired power stations in the country. Once native forest logging emissions are included, this is equivalent to at least half the carbon pollution of all Australian coal-fired power stations. Globally, new international agreements and corporate commitments to deforestation-free commodity supply chains will place increasing demand on Australia’s soft commodity sectors to transition to sustainable practices.

[@anthonyproctor5104]

As an Australian your completely full of poo. Total rubbish. The bushfires in 2019 did the damage.

[@Antechynus]

Very simplistic answer written to confirm one viewpoint not including all the facts.

[@AA-vi1cc]

So she mentions climate change and you think she’s being misleading? Everything you described is in the context of it. Deforestation doesn’t cause a net flux of CO2 into the atmosphere like fossil fuel emissions do.

[@Antechynus]

As an interesting side point, aboriginals burnt forest away to open it up as savannah grassland which was better suited to the animals they hunted, the first environmental vandalism in Australia.

[@s._3560]

Beef is one of their chief exports. Australia is the 2nd largest beef exporter in the world after Brazil!

[@marianasalles242]

Australia is having a bad government and in general Australians don’t care. Such a precious country. Peoples greediness is higher then protecting, preserving species and environment

[@ChineseKiwi]

In Australia here: This is highly incorrect. Surveys state again and again Australians on all sides of the political spectrum care about the environment and climate change, however it was the previous right wing Morrison government that didn't care (and right wing state level government in New South Wales)

[@castorchua]

@@ChineseKiwi We vote these people in. The mandate to not give a shit was given by the people. Ask your average Australian what they think of their green party.

[@ChineseKiwi]

@@castorchua Yes, they got record votes in the last election. Less determining public opinion based on social media comments.

[@huwguyver4208]

In the election before last (2019) the then-opposition Labor party ran on a pretty strong climate change mitigation platform and got destroyed in the election after the Murdoch press waged a propaganda campaign saying it would destroy the economy etc. Then later that year came the fires, and I think maybe it woke people up a bit. But Labor took the message from the loss that campaigning strongly on climate change action was politically risky, so it was not as emphasised at the last election. Still, getting the LNP out of office this year (finally) is a start, at least.

[@s.d.c5513]

If we continue on this path to extinction it's only a matter of time till we are on that path ourselves. Every forest doesn't have to become a parking lot.

[@106.]

youll be fine

[@jakel8627]

I've already bought a home on Antarctica for my kids. Oh, and there's LOTS of water on Antarctica, just no problem getting a drink in the hot sun! You jelly?

[@s.d.c5513]

@@jakel8627 Enjoy drinking the salt water moron

[@madoose]

Lol earth is done and its time for it to be

[@s.d.c5513]

@@madoose You mean like you must like it here. I mean, You're still here.

[@ReviewBoard-uy5nv]

Australia has amazing environmental engineers and yet the government does nothing. We need water capturing and permaculture techniques to re- green ALL areas, including deserts as they are doing to much success in Asia & Africa. This will help in creating microclimates, rebuild the water table, and decreasing the coming food & water scarcity crisis. 90% live only on the coast because the rest is too hot. Seaweed farms, solar power, re-greening desert land, using Purdue University reflective white paint in concrete areas, etc will drastically change temperatures. Small steps for big change

[@cumoreview442]

@@janb3625 Bullshit. Never happened. ridiculous. The desert is not an emptiness, it is an eco-system with it's own unique animals and plants which are magical and would die out if we tried to turn it into something else. Build a lake, and another set of animals go extinct.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

But the good news, the fossil fuel companies have made big profits for their top management and shareholders. That is good news, isn't it????

[@TheWebstaff]

It is the bankers are very well of from it.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@My Beautiful life and I didnt think Australians understood irony or sarcasm.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@@dv8322 well you will be pleased to know that the planet is doing something about the over population problem. It's killing off the humans.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@@dv8322 that might be a projected figure that fails to take account of the effects of global warming. Famine pestilence and war will significantly reduce the number who survive. Large areas of the mid latitudes will become uninhabitable for humans, or any life, in the next few years. The collapse of society in the traditional temperate latitudes, will likely reduce medicine and healthcare back to the state of the dark ages. Life expectancy will drop significantly as infant mortality rises. The collapse in the size of the human population is the inevitable consequence of excessive use of resources on a planet where they are finite. Scientists have been modeling such dramatic population decline in other species for years. Our fate is little different to bottled yeast cells that drowned in their own excrement, or starve when their sugar supply is exhausted.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

There is no profit to be made from a dead planet. Governments should be using their powers to ensure no one can profit from a dying planet. Ultimately, such measures will result from the breakdown of society and it's laws. Better if such measures happen earlier, when the elimination of the profit motive might save the planet. Certainly the reversal of the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people should be the objective.

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

1:23 The deer stuck in and dying in the mud. Utterly heartbreaking.

[@joepopplewell680]

Kangaroo

[@popcornfilms1]

Awful yes but Shocking? Governments and NGOs have known about this shit for years but what do they care?

[@msalman7470]

Four Steps Foror Environment Protection : Reduce pollution. Plant the tree. Environment cleaning. Make a garden

[@ColKav]

Look into Ecosia and TreeApp.

[@epicldb1977]

transition from fossil fuels

[@davidc7332]

Nuke it

[@NancyLynn]

Ever since I was a very young girl (63 yrs old now), I have had a love for Koalas. To hear that we may lose them, to say it breaks my heart doesn't begin to justify that statement. And, I've never seen one, not even in a zoo. I truly believe that because of greed and power, it is man who is going to destroy it all. I mean, just look at the world we live in right now....it doesn't take a genius to see it.

[@justinekelly3795]

They will be fine. The climate has been wet and cool in the last few years. Farms are creating corridors so they don’t need to go onto roads etc. they are on the mend reproducing madly right now. The main threat is actually urban sprawling, that is the main problem,

[@Ragdoll00]

There are still plenty around South Australia, I see them almost every walk I do

[@eileenlakra3304]

Yes, the world has gone selfish n greedy! 😢😯😐😑😕😠

[@Ragdoll00]

@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss Yeah I know about that and its horrible, was just pointing out that the population here in my area of SA at least seems to be doing well

[@varunkrissh]

People’s inner voice is Money is important than any species in the world.

[@pluckybellhop66]

The old phrase: 'Money is the root of all evil' has stood the test of time.

[@danielking8558]

I remember when I went to south Australia there were so many dead animals on the side of the road. Kangaroos. Koala. Anything you name it. So sad.

[@TheAshCooper]

Isn't the Australian government increasing its coal plants at present?

[@castorchua]

We sure are! Per person you'd struggle to find people more damaging to the planet.

[@blinkspacestudio8892]

Its great that people care but talking about it 10 years after the effects started happening is not such a good plan. If we had done something about it BEFORE it was too late that might have been a better option. Humans wait for tragedy before lifting a finger. Its so typical. We were warned time and time again to reduce consumption. I feel so sorry for the next generation.

[@mrxxbrian]

Hell is on Earth and we have all of it to be blamed for.

[@FPInvention]

I'm glad I got to spend 7 months traveling in Australia in 2005. It's heartbreaking to see how it is these days. One of the best times of my life

[@s5mphone701]

Did you travel there by sailboat? Or are you part of the climate problem

[@whatevermynameis2852]

“Shocking”

[@wayneparkinson4558]

When you go from one disaster to another it's not really surprising the flora, fauna,is suffering the earths resources are finite and we are running out of pace along with those resources at a expediential rate

[@ydnallah1541]

They’re literally burning Eden to the ground

[@castorchua]

Nah, more like Texas. But yeah, we're burning our Texas to the ground

[@amiami9608]

No one talks about reducing the number of cars on our roads and relying on public transport more. In many Australian cities, towns the public transport is very poorly developed or almost non existent. Too much land is cleared and used for development as well. Mining is another huge problem.

[@freshwater3158]

Barry Sad

[@rajatsharma9704]

Please save planet 🙏💚

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

That's easy Repent of sin and Seek Gods forgiveness

[@johnjohnson3370]

We can't by 2030 were finished

[@gurnyhalick9886]

We should have done something in the 70s when scientists started to realize that we are seriously mucking things up. Now, 50 years of doing literally nothing about the problem and it's getting worse and only going to get worse till the world decides to come together and actually make some progress on the issue.

[@johnjohnson3370]

@@gurnyhalick9886 do what there's a ten year lag in co2 in atmosphere if we stopped now we have enough to melt all ice on earth and research global demming its frightening

[@perseuspersikus6830]

@@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz go away fanatic

[@Ritzer168]

What's more disgusting is the fact that the Ex Environment Minister had this in her drawer for months and it only took a change of government for them to put this out there.

[@toecutterjones]

Humans are the worst thing that ever happened to this planet.

[@rrsharizam]

Not the asteroid that ended dinosaurs?

[@themugwomp8372]

Greed did this.

[@jimcourt9164]

Not a single inch of rail track buckled in the heat in U.K. today

[@yeevita]

Does Australia even try to conserve and rehabilitate its lands and deserts? Just curious. It seems unfortunate that Australia came of age during the industrial, exploit earth age, instead of the indigenous we-cannot-move age of making the earth they are on more fertile as they live on it.

[@ProtestArtVideo]

Great reporting. In terms of solutions a Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty is essential but not enough. Food related emissions account for a third of greenhouse gas emissions. We need a #PlantBasedTreaty now!

[@RayMak]

Meanwhile snakes and spiders in Australia : "yasssss"

[@atlanticocean8184]

Absolutely terrible

[@JavenarchX]

The fact that land clearing is still widespread is just outrageous. Workers in those industries should be ashamed of themselves

[@Antechynus]

There's bandicoots everywhere in the NSW valley i live in, I feed several roast potatoes, I have koalas all around me as well, Lyrebirds, glossy black cockatoo, regent bowerbirds, powerful owls, greater gliders, sugar gliders, ... these animals are indeed rare in Sydney CBD, but thrive in other areas. The forest in this valley has been selectively logged every 20-30 years since the 1850s and continues to provide both timber and habitat for wildlife. Yes things could be better, improvement can always be achieved.... but this anti primary production rhetoric is laughable.

[@mdrumt]

Sorry, there is more to the world than just your little bubble. Yes, the media might have some rhetoric to it however the report is cold hard scientific fact.

[@Antechynus]

@@mdrumt my little bubble is about 10,000 acres... for twenty years I've lived off grid in a cabin built of recycled materials. I've fought feral animals and invasive weeds on this land, helped newbies with advice and assistance... very very few people do anything real about protecting nature... plenty sit at home in their a/c Mcmansion on their laptop, TV and lights on, writing whiny comments about it...

[@ukhempahadiuk02vindrawan]

Someone's environment is their surroundings, especially the conditions in which they grow up, live, or work.

[@lilrad3770]

So sad

[@duncanmackenzie4076]

The UK ravaged Australia for years after the 1st settlers arrived. When they found giant redwoods the went crazy. They also manicured the lanscape to mimic the UK, with rolling green hills devoid of trees They brought rabbits and fixes to to hunt and nearly wiped out the indigenous population some parts.

[@jimiknewstubb]

But what’s really more important, oil tycoon profits or your ability to feed your children. Exactly, oil profit 😊👍

[@anthonyourbrother]

How can we in America help...? Imagine a global initiative that didn't see the fossil fuel companies as enemies but helped them make this rapid change across the planet. We have the technology and know-how already to improve upon all of it. Foster the right way to live in accord with nature AND keep it protected so that it protects us. We CAN make this change. There IS still time. There are even ways were we can ALL profit from this massive change. Including the big oil companies. It just makes sense.

[@jonlivesinasia]

Gas-guzzling America needs to sort itself out.

[@brynphillips9957]

America needs to get it's own house in order first and it has still got quite a way to go on that. Realistically, while tackling these issues together is important, it is on every nation to sort out their own affairs as enviromental impact and climate change doesn't respect international borders. No matter what any one nation does, it won't help much if not enough other nations are pulling their weight. It also requires accepting things change. There were probably quite a few industries such as horse breeding that were impacted by the advent of the automobile but accepting that older industries and technologies lose value as we develop is important. Big Oil simply isn't going to remain as profitable as it has been if we make the changes we need to. That requires those companies to either shrink or change into not being Oil companies anymore.

[@sanchezboy8654]

We don’t need American’s help because we have got Taliban with us. Allahu Akbar!!!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[@Homeschoolsw6]

When a problem is such that everyone can see it....it's too late.

[@DjHazardous]

*Isn't it weird that multiple bad events that are about to happening or are known going happened in the future, all point to the years between 2025 - 2040 not sure if anyone else has noticed*

[@Nigelblau]

Not really. Bad events literally happen almost all the time these past centuries. I’m sure a dude from wherever in 1945, or the height of the Cold War, or whenever convinced himself, because of all the bad events that are happening or are “known going happened in the future” points towards some arbitrary year when the world could end or whatever.

[@nathanbrammer8471]

If we need to phase out fossil fuels, then we need a rapid transfer to nuclear power, renewable energy can't give us consistent energy supply, they also require REE's that are mined at great expense to not only the environmental but also the welfare of people in places like the DRC.

[@IIISentorIII]

We are all right now living in a freezer where someone left the door open and people have said for decades, we need to reduce the Kitchen temperatures to gain time so we can come up with solutions. Meanwhile the owner of the building is turning on the heat in every room. What only a few truly realise is, that even though it is warm in the freezer and getting warmer, the melting ice is acting as a buffer and keeps everything from totally collapsing. When its gone (Greenland has up to 3km thick 9842 feet of ice that will be completely gone in the next 15 Years, yes in your lifetime!) The real catastrophe begins. The planet Venus is significant hotter than Mercur that is much closer to the Sun, the reason for that is that the planets atmosphär is full of Greenhouse gases ;) Cheers from Switzerland

[@billyfuller6155]

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[@clerkdiamond2158]

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[@amymedina4084]

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[@eileenlakra3304]

Freya Cole, Spokesperson, Australian Conservation Foundation Spoke so well! I'm impressed!

[@s5mphone701]

Never seen so much hypocrisy as the world right now.

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

This is not news to us who follow such things as we enter our new hothouse world. The extinction of species has LONG been ignored, even when championed by such luminaries as Jane Goodall. But, few listened to any of it, and some still deny it all, but it's irrelevant now as we're way past too many tipping points just like this one. Mankind, who thinks itself so tough and brilliant, and we literally shit where we eat.

[@KootFloris]

How crazy are we? In oud world a company waving a paper has more rights than an animal species that lived a million years in a certain territory.

[@AlexAronovich]

😥

[@coraltown1]

Australia digs up about 500 million tons of coal per and puts it on boats for export. That is Aussie 'emissions'. I visit Kangaroo Island in 2006 and loved it. To see it all destroyed in the bush fires was heartbreaking; though I had noticed while there that the forests of the national park were fuel overloaded f-time bombs.

[@castorchua]

Not just our industry, our people - "As for which country’s boomers are creating the biggest footprint, seniors in the U.S. and Australia top the list - producing 21 tons of emissions in 2015. That’s nearly double the average of seniors in Europe."

[@vitran4505]

Đợt nướcÚc bị cháy xem các anh chị cứu những em động vật mà cảm động 🥰

[@greysky5381]

I don’t have words

[@petrichor259]

Not surprising.

[@serksta1]

Declined because your government burnt them all to make your Sydney Melbourne train line

[@amandawoods8323]

" Conservative " greed.

[@kidShibuya]

Hardly surprising, no coal money in saving the environment.

[@liviupopa9324]

Many people have read the thirty-eighth and the thirty-ninth chapters of Ezekiel, and have wondered and longed to know what those two chapters can mean; what it is to which they refer. And, all this time, the first verses of these same chapters of Ezekiel tell definitely what is referred to; what nation of to-day is meant in those two chapters. Read the verses: “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” In the Revised Version it runs thus: “Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of Rush, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” And the same connection is found in the third verse, just following, and also in the thirty-ninth chapter. Now, we shall not attempt an exposition of these two chapters; we simply point out the meaning of the names that are spoken, that all may plainly see what nation is referred to, and that that nation is Russia. The text reads: “Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” Meshech was one of the grandsons of Noah. He passed up from the country of the Euphrates, through Mesopotamia, into what is now Russia, and became the origin of the people who settled in the place and built the city which is now called Moscow-the Muscovites-“and who still give name to Russia throughout the East.”-Rawlinson. Magog was another of the grandsons of Noah. He peopled all of the north of Asia: that part which in ancient time was called Scythia, and in our days is called Siberia. Tubal is another of the grandsons of Noah. He settled in the region which still from him bears the name Tobolsk. Now, the “prince of Rosh” is the chief of all these; and that word “Rosh” is the root-word from which comes Russia and the Russians. So, the thirty-eighth and the thirty-ninth chapters of Ezekiel are the Word of God to all people to-day, concerning the place which is occupied by Russia, its position, and its career, in the last days, and up to the very last day. The account says definitely that it shall be “in the latter days” (Ezekiel 38:8); the great feast of the fowls of heaven, of Revelation 19:17, 18, is mentioned in Ezekiel 39:17, 18; and the six plagues are referred to in Ezekiel 39:2, margin; and the seventh plague, in Ezekiel 38:22. See Revelation 16. Throughout Ezekiel 38 and 39 this power is spoken of as coming from the “north quarters.” And by looking at the map it is easy to see that russia does occupy the north quarters of the greater part of the whole eastern world. There is another prophecy which comes in, in this connection, and which makes plain to all people the connection between this power-Russia-and all of those western powers of Europe that occupy the territory of Western Rome. There comes next a scripture that shows a blending of all these: not a blending in unison, but a blending in their interests, which causes continual jealousy and contention among them. It is the prophecy concerning!!!

[@castorchua]

Not just our industry, our people - "As for which country’s boomers are creating the biggest footprint, seniors in the U.S. and Australia top the list - producing 21 tons of emissions in 2015. That’s nearly double the average of seniors in Europe."

[@jasonclaros7073]

The biggest footprint comes from methane from farmed cows for meat in places like the Amazon each country should feed their own citizens their own meat and not have an insane amount of poorly fed cattle driving up temperatures

[@otmgi3865]

Pretty sure we're not live

[@susannewilliamsson8339]

This news breaks my heart.... To know that all theese precious animals are closer to extinction each year, each month, each day.... If we can do anything, by donations or otherwise, please let us know.....

[@drakehonest9116]

Hello how are you doing?

[@susannewilliamsson8339]

@@drakehonest9116 I am well, but slowly melting... I really want to help, but I am not sure how or where it is most urgent. During the catastrophic wildfires 2019, it was easy, I just started a fundraising but now? People all over the world have to fight skyrocketing inflation, prices on electricity and fuel..... If you know anything please let me know. Are you living in Australia?

[@drakehonest9116]

@@susannewilliamsson8339 I'm originally from Norway but live in texas Nice meeting you here where are you originally from...?

[@susannewilliamsson8339]

@@drakehonest9116 I am living in Sweden, so I guess we are former neihgbours.... I hope you are enjoying living in Texas, the warmth and summer! I am sure both of us are in love with Koalas!

[@drakehonest9116]

@@susannewilliamsson8339 Texas it's a very beautiful place to stay i bet you gonna have fun If i may ask are you married with kids?

[@xXTheBennyXx]

Game over everyone. We will live in this crysis until the day we die, and it's only going to get worse in both speed and severity. We had something great growing but we have now burned it beyond recovery.

[@salty2667]

Building Housing Estates everywhere for Greedy Developers isn’t helping the Situation…

[@taniatsaregorodtseva4897]

Isn’t it Gladis should be responsible for the decreasing firefighters jobs???

[@LeonardoAriasMarquez]

😱😩

[@Atheistbatman]

Too late Almost too late to prepare

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

'Shocking', meaning not that shocking, abbreviations are there for a reason.

[@manukumsharma2812]

Time to work collectively not only in Australia however globally as well as time is running out.......

[@alanduncan1980]

Save those little critters. 😭

[@MrAlen6e]

Very sad but it seems like the Australian government and it's public could care less , they have choose mining and profits over the environment

[@StratsRUs]

True, sadly.

[@castorchua]

And our precious property bubble!

[@gavinpeacock1601]

Don't generalise and stereotype all Australians. A LOT of us care about the environment and the direction our country is going on. You are obviously not Australian judging by your ignorant comment

[@themugwomp8372]

Most Australians care about this thanks just keep your over generalising for what you actually know not just suspect. Every state has increased power of laws preventing any climate/environmental protesting.

[@gamingtonight1526]

So sad. What the hell is up with us humans?

[@zoeydeu2261]

Environmental neglect got worse during the right-wing pro business government, and thank GOSH the people voted them out recently. We will keep tabs on the new government. We're tired of climate deniers. The bushfires, the floods and now the continent with the worst extinction record is too much, we have to take action and make sure the government is doing their job in climate change

[@Crusader1984]

Can’t just simply phase out coal and gas like that and you’re not even considering nuclear that is carbon neutral

[@ChineseKiwi]

In Australia here: that ship sailed for Australia in the 1970s due to coal industry lobbying and propaganda. It is far more cost effective to implement solar. Nuclear takes too long to build, meaning more bridging by fossil fuels, negating any environmental or economic benefit.

[@Pleasing_view]

Mother Nature never makes mistakes. If you mess you gone

[@farfetchleek9821]

Isn't it winter in Australia?

[@castorchua]

Yeah, it is.

[@rf8003]

Billions...?

[@idakev]

RIP Crash Bandicoot. 😟

[@YBY3]

I completely agree that climate change is someting we need to work on, however, blaming current natural accuring weather events on climate change is misleading.

[@jamiehughes5573]

Nothing is more tragic than what happened to the Tasmanian tiger

[@poulthomas469]

Thanos wasn't the villain.

[@christinalynn8143]

💔 😭 🐨 Animals endangered, upsetting. Hopefully God has provided the earth, animal experts who know a thing or two, to change, improve the situation.

[@endergirl1421]

Ignore this comment, I need these timestamps for a school project. 1:36 to 2:00 2:06 to 2:14 3:15 to 3:18

[@mikepict9011]

All life . Not wild life

[@maxrockatansky3710]

If animals die because of natural causes, then we should not be worried about it too much. It is the cycle of the nature. Those bush fires have a purpose in the nature. We should be worried more about man-made causes like deforestation for human habitation and cultivation.

[@michaelsullivan8734]

Yeh I was thinking the same but more than likely and what if a group or organisation started the 'bush fires' with a purpose to go hand in hand with the deforestation because they are sick and tired of too many kangaroos and koala bears and they want to expand their territory and these animals are getting in the way... 'terrorists'.

[@SpenceHoshi]

Don't worry we got Crash Bandicoot on PS5

[@public.public]

Coal or human survival... Take your pick. If you pick the worng one ask yourself where your survival instinct went.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

Ahh yeah nah …..

[@wadafik]

Australia is so protective of its native species that the government restricts entry of virtually all animals that can pose a threat to Australian wildlife. It's a shame they do not go beyond that though.

[@laguna4video]

Can't appeciate the lack of study placed here, it was recently shown, the barrier reef is in recovery and is better than it was 6 years ago, yes climate change is real but they shouldn't be using old news as a descripter to the crisis when that fact has changed.

[@jaridkeen123]

All thse comments about people being sad for the Animals but then they hop in there Gas Guzzler ⛽️

[@castorchua]

Yes and our main focus is maintaining a property bubble. We've mostly had right wing governments since the 90's... can you tell?

[@solallate1141]

Save Great Barrier reef.