Australia hates Penguins

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Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project: a new airport and runway that would increase the human footprint in the world’s greatest wilderness by an estimated 40%.

The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete.

The government in Canberra says the project on the Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land is necessary to provide year-round access for scientists and emergency teams to Davis research station, Australia’s most southerly base in Antarctica. Strategic concerns are also a consideration; Australia is keen to counter China’s growing presence on the frozen southern continent.

Environmental scientists say the multi-billion-dollar plan is a waste of money, and could lead to a destructive construction race among territorial rivals.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tralia-criticised-for-antarctica-airport-plan
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So, why are they doing this? To make some rich people richer? To siphon off public money to their wealthy contractor mates? They're all illiterate criminal scum on that rock, after all.

Sensible discussion only, please.
 

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Mr Pigeon said:
So, why are they doing this? To make some rich people richer? To siphon off public money to their wealthy contractor mates? They're all illiterate criminal scum on that rock, after all.

Sensible discussion only, please.
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We've basically driven Koalas to the brink of no return and they are our national emblem. Australian conservative politics despises all forms of ecology yet folks keep wanting conservatives in government.
 

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Anangu recently managed to get whitefella the feck off their property. He's going to need a new playground.
 

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Mr Pigeon said:
So, why are they doing this? To make some rich people richer? To siphon off public money to their wealthy contractor mates? They're all illiterate criminal scum on that rock, after all.
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If it makes mining people and their donors happy the LNP would gladly kill every animal.

Scotty from marketing and the LNP dont give a feck about the environment.
 

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4bars said:
About the koalas not true

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/11/koalas-near-extinction-myth-australia-fires/

But yeah, Australia's governments strikes to me as a little cnutish
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The fires were just another hit. Habitat destruction and fragmentation are the biggest issues and we are heading towards a very serious situation. Populations have hugely declined over recent decades and look to continue :(

And our Federal government would concrete over the entire amazon if it means getting another coal mine dug. Cnutish doesn't cover it.
 

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4bars said:
About the koalas not true

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/11/koalas-near-extinction-myth-australia-fires/

But yeah, Australia's governments strikes to me as a little cnutish
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From your article
But, experts say, we are not looking at the death of a species—yet. “We’re not going to see koalas go extinct this fast,” says Chris Johnson, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Tasmania. “Koala populations will continue to decline because of lots of interacting reasons, but we’re not at the point where one event could take them out.”

In 2016, experts estimated that there are about 329,000 koalas in Australia, which represents an average of a 24 percent decline in populations over the past three generations.

Koalas are threatened by land development, food degradation (increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has diminished the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves), drought, dog attacks, and chlamydia. (Read more about the threats posed by cars and dogs.)


So what’s next?
“It’s not looking good for koalas at all, even before the fires,” says Adams-Hosking. While they have government protections—it’s illegal to kill a koala, for instance—their habitat is highly vulnerable, she says. “Very little of koala habitat is designated as protected area. Almost nothing.” She argues that the government needs to put the environment before economic growth. “Until that political will kicks in—and in Australia, it hasn’t—it’s not going to get any better for koalas.”
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My point was that we are happily continuing to push Koalas to the point of no return, a national icon, because conservatives don't care about ecology in their market fundamentalism. fecking over some penguins is essential a tuesday morning scheduled meeting for our Conservative government.
 

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MarylandMUFan said:
Good grief, I didn't know that Australia was like the American South. Are they religious as well?
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It exists in pockets but nowhere near as fundamentalist or powerful as US religious fanatics. We are slowly getting our own version of foxnews called sky news australia and our current PM is pretty fundamentalist Christian but political power still lies in mining companies and finance industry getting their own way on everything and ruining the country.
 
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WPMUFC said:
It exists in pockets but nowhere near as fundamentalist or powerful as US religious fanatics. We are slowly getting our own version of foxnews called sky news australia and our current PM is pretty fundamentalist Christian but political power still lies in mining companies and finance industry getting there own way on everything and ruining the country.
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Interesting, so you have an economic based anti-environmentalist movement. I imagine ours is economic as well but they use religious ideology to support it.
 

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WPMUFC said:
From your article


My point was that we are happily continuing to push Koalas to the point of no return, a national icon, because conservatives don't care about ecology in their market fundamentalism. fecking over some penguins is essential a tuesday morning scheduled meeting for our Conservative government.
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Going at that the current pace maybe, but its not true that they are to the brink of no return , because it was something that was spreading in the media. just that.

But yeah, though I have the feeling that australia have a very progressive society but the government is always messing around with natural resources... not only in austrlia but in papua new guinea and others...
 
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