"Australia is a world leader in chopping down trees and wiping out animals: two questionable accomplishments that are tightly connected."

The Australian public likes the ecology as long as it doesn't cost them anything or inconvenience their most direct transport routes to work or leisure.

Often seen in the media are politicians and business leaders planting a tiny seedling tree, most of which won't survive a month. Such acts are mere publicity stunts and lip-service to the ecology of Australia.

The tree planting movement is not taking root in Australia.

Mostly, land is cleared for agriculture of which Australia produces very much more than it needs and the surplus is exported.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-10-08/deforestation-land-clearing-australia-state-by-state/12535438


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Land clearing in Australia: How does your state (or territory) compare? ABC Science / By environment reporter Nick Kilvert Posted ThuThursday 8 OctOctober 2020 at 2:12am, updated 4hhours ago Agriculture is the biggest driver of land clearing in Australia.(ABC News) Share Australia is a world leader in chopping down trees and wiping out animals: two questionable accomplishments that are tightly connected. Land clearing and habitat loss are the biggest drivers of animal extinction and in recent years, Australia's aggressive rate of land clearing has ranked among the developed world's fastest. So despite our reputation for untamed wilderness and charismatic wildlife, it's perhaps no surprise that Australia has one of the highest rates of animal extinction in the world. We've driven 29 mammals to extinction since European colonisation and more than 1,700 others are threatened or endangered. The once abundant koala is rapidly vanishing from New South Wales and Queensland. But how much land are we clearing? Getting a fix on this figure is tough. The only nationally consistent data comes from the Federal Government's National Greenhouse Accounts (NGA). There are questions over the methodology used in that system — which we'll get to. First, let's look at the numbers state-by-state from lowest to highest. This gives you a picture of how much land has been cleared, right across Australia, from 2010 until the most recently available data in 2018. Because this data comes from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) estimates of clearing (called primary conversion and reclearing) it includes both native forestry and plantation forestry figures. However, native forest and plantation forestry only contributed to around 86,000 hectares of clearing in this period. Under commercial forestry activities, trees are regrown after harvesting. Agriculture was the reason for most of the clearing, with "grazing native vegetation" accounting for more than 1.8 million hectares of clearing. The next biggest contributor to the data was "grazing modified pastures" at around 125,000 hectares. ...

If the Anthropogenic Global Warming religion was serious about what they preach the first thing they should've done is ban de-forestation all around the world with Nations that break the rules having sanctions imposed on them.

Just to be clear we're not talking about plantation trees that were planted for harvest.

But certainly all forests around the world should be protected.

But lest not forget that climate policy has nothing to do with environmental policy these days.

The boys at the top of AGW religion are even saying this out in the open.

What does climate policy have to do with the Environment..?

NOT MUCH these days....!

See below straight from the horses mouth


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"First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole." Ottmar Edenhofer - is Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as well as Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technische Universität Berlin.