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24.01.2022 As NZ today declares a climate emergency, the Greens are fighting hard to hold Australia’s government of climate criminals to account. Our continent just experi...enced its hottest November on record. We are in a climate emergency and we need the government to act now to keep Australians safe. The Liberals blocked our move, and Labor split their vote they supported the Climate Emergency declaration in the House of Reps, but inexplicably voted against in the Senate where our combined forces could have actually gotten it done. Seriously, it’d be nice if Labor decided where they stood on climate and stopped siding with the Libs to protect the government.

23.01.2022 Tasmania’s incredible, carbon rich forests have never been worth more standing than they are now Read the plan: https://tasmps.greens.org.au/gr/restoring-forests-rewilding

20.01.2022 A cable car would be a crass and insensitive insult to the sacred mountain itself, and to all people who treasure it and hold it dear.

17.01.2022 Perhaps the most overlooked industry when it comes to the climate and ecological crisis is forestry. In the coming decades we will undoubtedly be needing every ...possible carbon sink to sequester and store CO2, and yet a forest area the size of a football field is being cut down every second, according to Global Forest Watch. Planting trees in suitable soils and places is great - however very far from as easy as we seem to think. But even more efficient is to leave the natural habitats intact in the first place and to rewild and restore nature. But as long as a dead tree is more valuable to us than a living tree, as long as the destruction of nature is worth more than nature itself and as long as health, biodiversity, well-being, empathy, equality, sustainability and long term holistic thinking is not considered a priority - but rather seen as extreme views - we won’t be able to solve the climate and ecological emergency. Sweden is often considered progressive on climate and environment. Sweden is also one of the worlds biggest forest nations (though now there’s almost only tree plantations left.) One of Sweden’s main solutions to the climate crisis is switching to biofuels. However, in 2019, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, we imported 95% of the raw material used for the popular so-called renewable HVO diesel, mainly from Indonesia. The marketing pitch is that we’re using leftovers from Swedish forestry - but the actual product is 42% slaughter waste, 36% PFAD (produced from palm oil waste) 14% pine tree oil and 8% palm oil. So not even we with so much forest per capita can be even close to self-sufficient when it comes to forestry products Yet, to meet our climate targets we plan to dramatically increase this solution. This is just one of the countless problems with today’s forestry. While the main problem is that deforestation is driving the catastrophic loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, threatening our very existence in large areas of this planet. Cartoon by PX Molina

17.01.2022 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! Tasmania’s widest tree recently discovered in area proposed for logging A record-breaking tree has recently been discovered on the edge of a ...proposed logging coupe near Maydena in southern Tasmania. The Swamp Gum (Eucalyptus regnans) is the widest tree measured in Tasmania, with a circumference of 21.7m (6.9m diameter). This giant tree is only 50cm smaller in circumference than the widest tree in Australia - the famous Red Tingle tree (Eucalyptus jacksonii) in Western Australia. On Monday, Steve Pearce and Carl Hansen were surveying logging coupes for giant trees. They had planned to visit the tree as it had previously been recorded by Big Tree Enthusiast Brett Mifsud a few years ago. Brett had named the tree All About the Base and had estimated the circumference at around 20m. We were amazed at how big this tree was when we first saw it. From Brett’s records we knew that this tree was over 20m in circumference. When we measured it and discovered that it was the widest tree in Tasmania, it was a very welcome surprise, said Carl Hansen from Forestry Watch. The duo also found nine other giant trees during the survey. Four of these trees were within logging coupes, while the other five trees were within 20m of the coupe’s boundaries. The scary thing is that Tasmania’s widest tree could have very easily been logged without anyone ever knowing about it. said Steve Pearce from The Tree Projects. Sustainable Timber Tasmania are not doing their job properly. They are meant to be surveying these areas for giant trees. This tree is hard to miss its only 10 metres away from the road. Carl Hansen said this find was significant. People will want to come see this tree. It’s quite close to the road and to Maydena and it would be very easy to make this tree into the region’s next big tourist attraction. It would be worth much more to the community than woodchips.

16.01.2022 KRISTEN LANG, Tasmanian writer/poet commenting on the current election. DAY 10. GREENING THE ISLAND. We have what it takes to turn things around. We know it’s u...rgent our climate, forests, grasslands, waterways our home needs us to respond. We’re often so busy with the bad news that we forget this SHOULD be an exciting, regenerative, innovative time in Tasmania, a meaningful, positive period in our history. We know about regenerative agriculture, about the impacts of fossil fuels, about the importance of keeping our wild places intact and healthy, about keeping our waterways clean, about reducing our carbon footprints So WHY have the needs of our planet, our island, our home, not been listened to and acted on by our governments? One answer: THEY THINK WE DON’T WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH. They think an offer of lip service at best to our ecologies, our soil health, our air, our fire risk, our flood risk, our wildlife, while carrying on with business as usual, with a little more corruption, a little more secrecy, an erosion of democracy, will be enough. This election we say it isn’t. Wrecking our home is not the answer. People around the world are stepping up and WE have to join them. We have to demand that we do so. The environment IS an issue this Saturday. Just ask the Greens. See more

16.01.2022 KRISTEN LANG - Day 3 UNDER THE CANOPY. The poet Raymond Antrobus writes: I wondered what the trees would say about us? What books would they write if they had ...to cut us down? People aren’t trees, I hear you say. It makes me think though. Some trees get to be thousands of years old. And like us, trees aren’t single entities there’s a whole lot of exchange and response going on via roots and fungi networks, through skin and air. Take one step inside a healthy forest and you know it’s a rich and intricate place diverse, interconnected, full of life. We don’t own these forests. They flourished before humans were around and would flourish, are, sadly, more likely to flourish, without us. We, on the other hand, need them, for both body and soul, to breathe and for there to be something worth breathing for. Habitat destruction, including deforestation, is now as big a problem globally as climate change. It increases climate damage and is increased by it. We know this, yet our governments, state and federal, continue to feed them both. Why do we vote this way? Do we think someone ELSE will solve the problems we are impacted by? Will someone ELSE look after the life we share the planet with? No. On May 1st, I’ll be greening my vote. If I didn’t, I’d be refusing to recognise that there are, and have to be, better ways. We can live with, not against this place we call home. OUR DEMOCRACY. Winning matters in an election. Power corrupts of course (plenty of evidence of that), but it’s also pretty handy, it gets stuff done (forests stripped, protest criminalised, your buddies looked after, snap elections called). Apparently in a DEMOCRACY, the point is NOT winning but representation. I hold onto that because like most of us I really do want to be represented. Why? One reason I care about this place I call home. I think most of us do. For me, that care means I want families, businesses, wildlife, the waterways, soils and wild places all to be thriving, none at the expense of the other. No more habitat loss, no more rich-vs-the-rest-of-us divide, a strong response to climate change, a fair, transparently-functioning society. I can only vote Green go Liz, go Jack and Darren, go Cassy, go Rosalie, and all of those behind you! It feels like I’m voting for a global surge of interest in doing things better justice, sustainability, equality. It’s an approach Tasmania, and Tasmanians, could excel at I believe that! So I figure with a Green voice in parliament, I won’t have lost, even if, by chance, the Greens don’t have absolute power! Liz can still be my voice, making a difference, raising ideas and arguing on my behalf all the way to the next election. What would I say to others? Vote for your values you might be surprised by who shares them!

11.01.2022 This is an outrage. How dare they. How DARE they.

11.01.2022 Raising the bar. Sometimes I wonder if we Tasmanians value where we are enough. Maybe we do there’s a lot to love. Yet here we are beside a government not kno...wn for its transparency and keen to minimise its responses to some major social and environmental crises, climate change, for example, species loss and depletion to the point where ecosystems (giant kelp forests, our warming, fire-vulnerable alpine flora) cannot survive Why have we not dreamt more grandly? Why have we not done better at looking after both ourselves and the places we love and call home? Because it’s hard? We’ve done hard things before. Greed? Most people would do better under a government driven by longer-term goals. Power? That’s where the hope lies. We still live in a democracy. The people have power. What it comes down to, then, is will. Will the people of Tasmania, for example, vote on May 1st for the old regime, or will they let the status quo know it’s time for change? It’s time the people were enabled, not left scrambling for housing or for health, not left behind in the world’s efforts to combat climate damage and the depletion of our ecosystems, not fobbed off in our efforts to be heard as people for whom this place means more than an economic bottom line. This is our home. As a Tasmanian, I have a choice in this election. I’ll be greening my vote. It’s the best way I can take a stand for what surely matters. See more

05.01.2022 Today, Friday 2nd April I’m with Western creek friends about to put up posters. The posts are from Timber World and they are plantation Nitens. Love the heart of Tasmania -LYONS