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More cows, fewer trees: what could go wrong?
It’s easy to think of rampant land clearing as something that happened long ago – chainsaws and bulldozers carving up the landscape in another era. But the truth is far more confronting. Research estimates that 29 million hectares of forests and woodlands that existed in NSW before 1750 have been destroyed – a staggering 54%…
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The case for Richmond River Koala Parks
The Northern Rivers community has a long and proud history of standing up for our precious native forests, from the Terania blockades of 1979, the first forest blockades in Australia, through the many campaigns across our region since. At the Forest Frontline Environmental Forum at Southern Cross University on Saturday 21st March, we heard about…
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Large Lismore rally for forests
In the Northern Rivers’ largest forest protest of recent years, nearly 1500 attended Lismore’s rally for Native Forests, despite the heavy rain showers and soaring heat on Sunday. The colourful and creative event featured a disco flashmob, a choir, livestream footage of a greater glider den, performers including Nidala Barker, Olivia Roseberry and Terri Nicholson…
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Aquarius Talks return in May
On Saturday 9th May, the Nimbin Town Hall will host the second annual Aquarius Talks, a gathering inspired by the spirit of the 1973 Aquarius Festival. This year’s theme, ‘Our Forests and People’, brings the focus back to something that has always mattered deeply in this region, the protection of forests and the communities that…
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AI and the proliferation of data centres
For this month’s column I’m indebted to the work of Luke Kemp’s book Goliath’s Curse, subtitled ‘The History and Future of Societal Collapse’, and another important work, The Language of Climate Politics by Genevieve Guenther – subtitled ‘Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight it’. The two books are linked, despite what at first seems like…
