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Tell your MP: End government support for nature destruction and start investing 1% to restore it. (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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Yes, another email you can send, but only consistent and unrelenting voices from voters will get a look in so we must not stop.

More than 2,200 species and ecological communities are now listed as threatened with extinction. Their loss jeopardises not only wildlife, but also the natural systems that support our food security, water supplies, human health, climate resilience and economy.

Analysis by the Biodiversity Council (an independent expert group founded by 11 Australian universities to promote evidence-based solutions to our biodiversity crisis) shows that the fed govt spends around 50 times more harming nature than helping it.

$26 billion every year - 4% of the federal budget - flows to financial subsidies and tax breaks for activities that damage the environment, including fossil fuel extraction and large mining projects.

Meanwhile, only 0.06% of the federal budget is spent on direct actions to protect and restore nature...

Big multinational corporations don’t need more help. Nature does.

The solution is achievable: 1% of the fed budget would provide enough funding to:

Prevent extinctions
Recover threatened species
Restore degraded landscapes
Protect at least 30% of each of Australia’s land and sea ecosystems

That is why an alliance of environmental organisations are now calling for 1% for nature.

Tell your MP that Australians want a healthier and more sustainable future. Send an email via this link: https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/take-action/nature-needs-one-percent

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[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah... but what about the Endangered Animal Industrial Complex (EAIC), we invest 1% of the budget and within tqo years raising a joey coats a motuer Kangaroo 2 times as much. Its classic inflation of an overstretched budget. We need a needs based assessment regime. After all who says every single hairy nosed wombat (for example) is endangered, if they reallg are endangered they should be able to prove it easily.

Another thing, what is the hairy nosed wombat doing to make itself not endangered? Ever heard of pulling yourself up by the whiskers?? Pfft...

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago

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At least Hairy-nosed wombats can have more than one burrow but don't ask for CGT!