#commodification — Public Fediverse posts

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

"... With this arrival, this conquest, one idea reigns supreme. You are a numbers person. You believe in possession through measuring the thing. The land is this many metres, the elevation is this high off the ground. Where a traveller may have seen the land, been curious about what 50 names say about the tree, already your mind was quartering, the stake hammered right in..."

"Possession—the numbers game—requires brute strength and the willingness to eradicate the speakers too."

- Yumna Kassab, The Conquest of Land and Dream

#land #biodiversity #life #quality #diversity #dispossession #commodification #quantifiability #ratability #scalability #values #language #naming #LanguagePolicies #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #IndigenousPeoples #writers

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-conquest-of-land-and-dream/

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI

“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI

“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI

“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI

“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI

"The commodification of knowledge and the commercialisation of the higher education sector hinder attempts to reduce inequity. The higher education system needs to transform to be more open and responsive to societal needs, offering the opportunity to increase knowledge equity."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#commodification #commercialisation

"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.

In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.

In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.

To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.

To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/

#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy

"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.

In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.

In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.

To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.

To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/

#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy

"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.

In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.

In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.

To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.

To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/

#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy

"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.

In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.

In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.

To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.

To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/

#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy

"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.

In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.

In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.

To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.

To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/

#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy

"Winner takes all!

How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)"

https://youtu.be/dFgIRpGnUJA

#Capitalism #Commodification #powerelites #chrishedges #anandgiridharadas

OnlineFirst - "An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom" by Caroline White-Knockleby, Elena Louder, and Manuel Prieto:

#energytransition #commodification #socioecologicalfix #Chile #neoliberalnatures

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251383795

OnlineFirst - "An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom" by Caroline White-Knockleby, Elena Louder, and Manuel Prieto:

#energytransition #commodification #socioecologicalfix #Chile #neoliberalnatures

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251383795

OnlineFirst - "An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom" by Caroline White-Knockleby, Elena Louder, and Manuel Prieto:

#energytransition #commodification #socioecologicalfix #Chile #neoliberalnatures

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251383795

OnlineFirst - "An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom" by Caroline White-Knockleby, Elena Louder, and Manuel Prieto:

#energytransition #commodification #socioecologicalfix #Chile #neoliberalnatures

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251383795

My opinion: If I install and pay for dating apps: Tinder, Boo, Bumble; then basically the partner I find there isn't certain to be a partner. I think they are more like a product of those dating apps because we paid for our ads as customers. Our profiles are boosted, special perks like double verification ticks are enabled, and we paid for a list of who stalks our profiles. Now I realise why people hate dating apps. Now I realise why I have never found a partner from dating apps. Because my partner should never be a product, but a PARTNER, and full stop. Yeah.

#datingapps #tinder #bumble #boo #capitalism #humantech #relationships #modernrelationships #critique #commodification #connection #authenticity #selfworth #partner #love #dating #ethics #datingadvice #apps #digital

My opinion: If I install and pay for dating apps: Tinder, Boo, Bumble; then basically the partner I find there isn't certain to be a partner. I think they are more like a product of those dating apps because we paid for our ads as customers. Our profiles are boosted, special perks like double verification ticks are enabled, and we paid for a list of who stalks our profiles. Now I realise why people hate dating apps. Now I realise why I have never found a partner from dating apps. Because my partner should never be a product, but a PARTNER, and full stop. Yeah.

#datingapps #tinder #bumble #boo #capitalism #humantech #relationships #modernrelationships #critique #commodification #connection #authenticity #selfworth #partner #love #dating #ethics #datingadvice #apps #digital

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources. Digito-commodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation.

Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire, Textual Practice, 7:3, 471-482 as cited and discussed by Mark Fisher in 2014. Article here. See also Meditations on Machinic Desire for a discussion of Land's text.

#NickLand #MarkFisher #CCRU #1993 #capitalism #accelerationism #AI #MachinicDesire #commodification

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources. Digito-commodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation.

Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire, Textual Practice, 7:3, 471-482 as cited and discussed by Mark Fisher in 2014. Article here. See also Meditations on Machinic Desire for a discussion of Land's text.

#NickLand #MarkFisher #CCRU #1993 #capitalism #accelerationism #AI #MachinicDesire #commodification

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources. Digito-commodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation.

Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire, Textual Practice, 7:3, 471-482 as cited and discussed by Mark Fisher in 2014. Article here. See also Meditations on Machinic Desire for a discussion of Land's text.

#NickLand #MarkFisher #CCRU #1993 #capitalism #accelerationism #AI #MachinicDesire #commodification

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources. Digito-commodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation.

Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire, Textual Practice, 7:3, 471-482 as cited and discussed by Mark Fisher in 2014. Article here. See also Meditations on Machinic Desire for a discussion of Land's text.

#NickLand #MarkFisher #CCRU #1993 #capitalism #accelerationism #AI #MachinicDesire #commodification

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources. Digito-commodification is the index of a cyberpositively escalating technovirus, of the planetary technocapital singularity: a self-organizing insidious traumatism, virtually guiding the entire biological desiring-complex towards post-carbon replicator usurpation.

Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire, Textual Practice, 7:3, 471-482 as cited and discussed by Mark Fisher in 2014. Article here. See also Meditations on Machinic Desire for a discussion of Land's text.

#NickLand #MarkFisher #CCRU #1993 #capitalism #accelerationism #AI #MachinicDesire #commodification

#Athletes would be nameless and #sports only value would be the activity, if #advertising and #marketing was ripped from them, everything from big Ag and Pharm, to Ins and Electronics, Clothing and Housewares, Automotive and Travel, nearly every facete of modern life finds a way to capitalize on Sports and Athletes, completely stripping the fellowship of coemption for capital gains for shareholders, and every weekend millions of people buy into the fabricated hype, yep, I enjoy a good game, but I despise the #commercialization and #commodification;

You can encourage my continued useless #commentary, random thoughts and ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

#Athletes would be nameless and #sports only value would be the activity, if #advertising and #marketing was ripped from them, everything from big Ag and Pharm, to Ins and Electronics, Clothing and Housewares, Automotive and Travel, nearly every facete of modern life finds a way to capitalize on Sports and Athletes, completely stripping the fellowship of coemption for capital gains for shareholders, and every weekend millions of people buy into the fabricated hype, yep, I enjoy a good game, but I despise the #commercialization and #commodification;

You can encourage my continued useless #commentary, random thoughts and ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

« Understanding #touristification: conceptual boundaries and intersections with #gentrification and #overtourism »

Examining how the terms are used to disentangle the similarities among these 3 concepts.

Touristification appears a tourism‑driven urban change post‑2008, displacing residents, reshaping economies and space; unlike gentrification (class) or overtourism (crowding).

The paper calls for integrated policies for #housing, #commodification in #tourism contexts.

https://doi.org/10.1080/20565607.2025.2559889

What is the cost of identity? 💔#SellYourself #SelfWorth #PoeticBipolarMind #EmotiveFusionArt #DaveWhiteIllustrations #KianaJimenez #DarkPoetry #Identity #Commodification #ArtAndPoetry

https://poeticbipolarmind.blog/the-price-of-identity/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

💸🖤 Ledger of the Lost — where worth is tallied, but never whole.
This digital download pairs Kiana Jimenez’s poem Self-Worth with Dave White’s illustration Sell Yourself. A haunting meditation on value, identity, and what is lost in the ledger of survival. #LedgerOfTheLost #PoeticBipolarMind #KianaJimenez #DaveWhiteIllustrations #PoetryAndArt #DigitalDownload #GothicPoetry #SymbolicArt #Commodification #EmotiveFusionArt

https://poeticbipolarmind.blog/product/ledger-of-the-lost/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Will the 'koala tourist park' save the endangered species?

"Habitat loss and fragmentation is the number one threat to koalas. Others include climate change, bushfires, disease, vehicle strikes and dog attacks."

"The NSW government says logging must immediately cease in areas to be brought into the park’s boundary. However, logging pressures can remain, even after national parks are declared. Forestry activities must cease completely, and forever, if the park is to truly protect koalas."

"What’s more, recreational activities, if allowed in the national park, may negatively impact koalas. For example, cutting tracks or building tourist facilities may fragment koala habitat and disturb shy wildlife."
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https://theconversation.com/koalas-are-running-out-of-time-will-a-140-million-national-park-save-them-264789
#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #HabitatDestruction #roads #dogs #pets #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #MidNorthCoast #KoalaTouristPark #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #encroachment #deforestation #nature #commodification #values #touristification #TouristPark

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Monetising the great koala national park

"The government estimates the park’s value as a tourism destination will generate an extra $163m for the state’s economy over two decades. The native logging division of NSW Forestry Corporation has run at a loss for several years...The Minns government on Sunday revealed the proposed outlines of the park, fulfilling its 2023 election commitment...A moratorium on logging within its boundaries begins on Monday."
End native forest logging across NSW. Recognise remnant flora and fauna in 'plantations'.
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/08/minns-140m-great-koala-national-park-regional-towns-coalition-nsw
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ecosystems #value #nature #commodification #NSWLogging #FailedAssets #FCNSW #StrandedAssets #MidNorthCoast #deforestation #plantations #extractivism #CashCow #ExtinctionCrisis

Image: Anthropomorphic image of a koala unboxing the cornucopia of a tourist park.

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
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https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
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https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
>>
https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
>>
https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
>>
https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Ah yes, #alienation and #commodification are apparently not very good for the psyche…

Good job, capitalism 👍 /s off.

People should be aware of psychological manipulation due to recursive feedback loops. #imho 🤷