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how is our epa going with fracking? On 24 November 2014 at 17:45, Janet Hawtin <ja...@hawtin.net.au> wrote: > imho > > Things which would be handy in a context where we are trying to adapt to a > dramatically smaller power consumption, local production, exploration of > new technologies, reskilling, making diffferent tools. > > - TAFE facilities with actual equipment for new skills doing applied > research and experimentation. > (Loss of workshop equipment and courses) > > - Open constructive dialogue on what things people are trying eg > through the ABC > (Cuts to ABC, discourse restricted to personalities, divisive, win > lose framing. > Focus on lies make people despair of effectiveness of democracy and > possibly want a mechanism for removing a politician which could be used to > make it hard for anyone to do anything constructive?) > > - Financial shift to new technologies > (breaking RET, carbon tax) > > - Science > no proactive commitment to climate adaptation mitigation science, cuts > to CSIRO, cuts to Universities. > > - Good water supply so that local agriculture can feed the community. > (If fracking with toxins and radioactive elements poisons the ground > water for all livestock and communities what is left? Mining is the only > thing possible? That would impact China's agriculture here. Not sure what > the mix of goals is there. > > - Feeding ourselves > Sale of agriculture assets to China which will want to export food to > China which would not reduce our carbon footprint and reduce local food for > local communities? > Price pressure on local farmers from supermarkets.) > > - Farming without hi carbon inputs and which does not reduce > biodiversity > (China will use what methods? > Changes to GMO free areas in WA, Steve Marsh v GMO) > > - Tasmanias forests > (Changes to community's ability to act in defence of natural assets) > > - Pty Ltd and banking > Limited liability in a context where coal at the barrier reef and > fracking and end of fish > shutting down people sending money to family limiting capacity for > people to help each other > > - War > Is the reason there is such interest in war on islam due to there > being alternative ideas about responsibility in banking in islam? > Perhaps our local army could be doing constructive adaptive > engineering projects? > (Army in Iraq spending $600k per shot of USA ammunition, spending > billions on USA planes and submarines) > > - Wesfarmers and other retailers of all the things we buy are running > the big miles with importing goods. > Could they reconfigure to do low energy local production? Does it mean > changes in scale and distribution? > They could be a part of a change in skills and technology and local > production but it would mean a shift in a model which has monolithic > momentum using lots of carbon? > > - Ability to make law which helps us reconfigure. > (China FTA and USA TPP block govt from acting if it impacts profits) > > - Aboriginal communities in WA > (Which cities towns communities do we think *are* sustainable?) > > - Insurance > Does PLI represent a monetary barrier or tax on community capacity, > volunteer capacity? > Can we do better? > > Legal, educational, communication, technology natural assets we need to > adapt to climate issues are being deconstructed. > Our multicultural commitment to each other and culture, infrastructure for > being informed skilled and collaborative is being deconstructed. > > The government represents money not AU > It would appear through the above actions that the money is not being > invested in taking the nation forward constructively > and in many cases is proactively breaking and removing the country's > community's tools for change. > Money is restricted to extraction and militarising. > > Fracking is happening in other places so I have to assume that the pattern > is not special to AU but it is the AU stuff I can see. > > We need a plan B? How does that happen? > > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
