#settlersocieties — Public Fediverse posts

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
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On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
>>
On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
>>
On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
>>
On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

"Fire-resilient landscapes” and “fire-adapted communities” through biocultural restoration as a fire risk mitigation strategy.

A clear-eyed view on historic harms by settler societies: Settler transition to large-scale agriculture (plantations) transformed ecohydrological conditions and introduced weeds. The neglected land and extractive tourism practices drive increases in fire risks.

"We argue that decolonizing postplantation landscapes through the restoration and reconnection of people to land will not only help prevent future catastrophic fires, but also address social and environmental inequities.The connections of colonialism to contemporary extreme fire regimes are not unique to Hawaiʻi. The dispossession of Indigenous communities worldwide has suppressed cultural burning and altered fire regimes that support the production of food and material culture."
>>
On the anniversary of the Maui fires, a call for Indigenous land care to mitigate future disasters, D. Nākoa Farrant et al
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401045121
#bushfires #fires #colonialism #SettlerSociety #extractivism #water #plantations #SettlerSocieties #unsustainability #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalRestoration #CulturalBurning #restoration

The fires of human-caused climate disruption are raging though California right now

"For millions of years the world’s tallest trees (Giant sequoias) have graced California peaks and coastlines, growing through centuries of changes."

"But those landscapes have seen significant shifts over the past century and the forests have suffered. Spurred by the climate crisis, devastating droughts and scorching temperatures have added new stressors for the redwoods, particularly the famous giant sequoias, which now struggle to bounce back after big wildfires."

"Part of the problem stems from California’s gold rush era, when settlers descended with an overzealous appetite for good timber, cutting down much of the old-growth forests. They also suppressed indigenous land management techniques, which included setting “healthy” fires that cleared out the forest. A century of fire suppression created an overabundance of vegetation that set the stage for larger, more catastrophic blazes."
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#SettlerSocieties #fires #trees #LandUse #NativeForests #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #climate #bushfires #FirstNationsPeoples

The fires of human-caused climate disruption are raging though California right now

"For millions of years the world’s tallest trees (Giant sequoias) have graced California peaks and coastlines, growing through centuries of changes."

"But those landscapes have seen significant shifts over the past century and the forests have suffered. Spurred by the climate crisis, devastating droughts and scorching temperatures have added new stressors for the redwoods, particularly the famous giant sequoias, which now struggle to bounce back after big wildfires."

"Part of the problem stems from California’s gold rush era, when settlers descended with an overzealous appetite for good timber, cutting down much of the old-growth forests. They also suppressed indigenous land management techniques, which included setting “healthy” fires that cleared out the forest. A century of fire suppression created an overabundance of vegetation that set the stage for larger, more catastrophic blazes."
>>
#SettlerSocieties #fires #trees #LandUse #NativeForests #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #climate #bushfires #FirstNationsPeoples

The fires of human-caused climate disruption are raging though California right now

"For millions of years the world’s tallest trees (Giant sequoias) have graced California peaks and coastlines, growing through centuries of changes."

"But those landscapes have seen significant shifts over the past century and the forests have suffered. Spurred by the climate crisis, devastating droughts and scorching temperatures have added new stressors for the redwoods, particularly the famous giant sequoias, which now struggle to bounce back after big wildfires."

"Part of the problem stems from California’s gold rush era, when settlers descended with an overzealous appetite for good timber, cutting down much of the old-growth forests. They also suppressed indigenous land management techniques, which included setting “healthy” fires that cleared out the forest. A century of fire suppression created an overabundance of vegetation that set the stage for larger, more catastrophic blazes."
>>
#SettlerSocieties #fires #trees #LandUse #NativeForests #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #climate #bushfires #FirstNationsPeoples

The fires of human-caused climate disruption are raging though California right now

"For millions of years the world’s tallest trees (Giant sequoias) have graced California peaks and coastlines, growing through centuries of changes."

"But those landscapes have seen significant shifts over the past century and the forests have suffered. Spurred by the climate crisis, devastating droughts and scorching temperatures have added new stressors for the redwoods, particularly the famous giant sequoias, which now struggle to bounce back after big wildfires."

"Part of the problem stems from California’s gold rush era, when settlers descended with an overzealous appetite for good timber, cutting down much of the old-growth forests. They also suppressed indigenous land management techniques, which included setting “healthy” fires that cleared out the forest. A century of fire suppression created an overabundance of vegetation that set the stage for larger, more catastrophic blazes."
>>
#SettlerSocieties #fires #trees #LandUse #NativeForests #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #climate #bushfires #FirstNationsPeoples

The fires of human-caused climate disruption are raging though California right now

"For millions of years the world’s tallest trees (Giant sequoias) have graced California peaks and coastlines, growing through centuries of changes."

"But those landscapes have seen significant shifts over the past century and the forests have suffered. Spurred by the climate crisis, devastating droughts and scorching temperatures have added new stressors for the redwoods, particularly the famous giant sequoias, which now struggle to bounce back after big wildfires."

"Part of the problem stems from California’s gold rush era, when settlers descended with an overzealous appetite for good timber, cutting down much of the old-growth forests. They also suppressed indigenous land management techniques, which included setting “healthy” fires that cleared out the forest. A century of fire suppression created an overabundance of vegetation that set the stage for larger, more catastrophic blazes."
>>
#SettlerSocieties #fires #trees #LandUse #NativeForests #FossilFuels #ExtremeHeat #climate #bushfires #FirstNationsPeoples

Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism

"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."

The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."

"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."

Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>

Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction

Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism

"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."

The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."

"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."

Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>

Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction

Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism

"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."

The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."

"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."

Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>

Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction

Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism

"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."

The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."

"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."

Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>

Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction

Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism

"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."

The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."

"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."

Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>

Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction

The Koalas
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https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The Koalas
>>
https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The Koalas
>>
https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The Koalas
>>
https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The Koalas
>>
https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
>>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
>>
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
>>
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
>>
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
>>
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
>>
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
>>
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

Hyperincarceration

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."

"Hyperincarceration of First Peoples is a common feature of former British settler colonies such as Canada, the United States and New Zealand. This shared experience shows us First Peoples are not the problem. We should instead be paying attention to the colonial motivation for incarcerating First Peoples."
>>
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #incarceration #SettlerSocieties #racism #NT #overpolicing #frontier #British #legacy #BritishColonialism #violence #governance #failure #Australia #TruthTelling

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

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Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

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Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

Forest guardians

One settler narrative is 4000 years old and has the spoiler:
Stop cutting down forests.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is ancient Mesopotamian literature written on cuneiform tablets. Uruk was an ancient settlement of civilisation on the Euphrates river. Growth soon burst their urban growth boundaries.

The 'conquering hero narrative' to fix the 'problem' has endured over the 4000 years in all our storytelling, texts or rich media.

Gilgamesh’s journey led him into the surrounding forests to fight Humbaba, the guardian of the rich biodiversity of old growth forests.

On the way, he and his companion Enkidu had a dream when they heard Humbaba bellowing. The dream was about falling mountains, floods, desertification, thunderstorms and bushfires. Ignoring these nightmares they pushed on with their quest and massacred Humbaba, the defender and custodian of the ancient forest.

Gilgamesh was seeking lasting fame and he knew that his community's hunger for timber and growth implied consent for his actions. And so cities continued to spread and grow all over the planet.

#NativeForests #NSWLogging #logging #history #literature #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #hero #narrative #HeroNarrative #violence #extractivism #bushfires #floods #desertification #DustStorms #Urbanisation #SettlerSocieties #Sprawl #growth #expansion #nature #extinctions #climate #biodiversity

Forest guardians

One settler narrative is 4000 years old and has the spoiler:
Stop cutting down forests.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is ancient Mesopotamian literature written on cuneiform tablets. Uruk was an ancient settlement of civilisation on the Euphrates river. Growth soon burst their urban growth boundaries.

The 'conquering hero narrative' to fix the 'problem' has endured over the 4000 years in all our storytelling, texts or rich media.

Gilgamesh’s journey led him into the surrounding forests to fight Humbaba, the guardian of the rich biodiversity of old growth forests.

On the way, he and his companion Enkidu had a dream when they heard Humbaba bellowing. The dream was about falling mountains, floods, desertification, thunderstorms and bushfires. Ignoring these nightmares they pushed on with their quest and massacred Humbaba, the defender and custodian of the ancient forest.

Gilgamesh was seeking lasting fame and he knew that his community's hunger for timber and growth implied consent for his actions. And so cities continued to spread and grow all over the planet.

#NativeForests #NSWLogging #logging #history #literature #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #hero #narrative #HeroNarrative #violence #extractivism #bushfires #floods #desertification #DustStorms #Urbanisation #SettlerSocieties #Sprawl #growth #expansion #nature #extinctions #climate #biodiversity

Forest guardians

One settler narrative is 4000 years old and has the spoiler:
Stop cutting down forests.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is ancient Mesopotamian literature written on cuneiform tablets. Uruk was an ancient settlement of civilisation on the Euphrates river. Growth soon burst their urban growth boundaries.

The 'conquering hero narrative' to fix the 'problem' has endured over the 4000 years in all our storytelling, texts or rich media.

Gilgamesh’s journey led him into the surrounding forests to fight Humbaba, the guardian of the rich biodiversity of old growth forests.

On the way, he and his companion Enkidu had a dream when they heard Humbaba bellowing. The dream was about falling mountains, floods, desertification, thunderstorms and bushfires. Ignoring these nightmares they pushed on with their quest and massacred Humbaba, the defender and custodian of the ancient forest.

Gilgamesh was seeking lasting fame and he knew that his community's hunger for timber and growth implied consent for his actions. And so cities continued to spread and grow all over the planet.

#NativeForests #NSWLogging #logging #history #literature #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #hero #narrative #HeroNarrative #violence #extractivism #bushfires #floods #desertification #DustStorms #Urbanisation #SettlerSocieties #Sprawl #growth #expansion #nature #extinctions #climate #biodiversity

Forest guardians

One settler narrative is 4000 years old and has the spoiler:
Stop cutting down forests.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is ancient Mesopotamian literature written on cuneiform tablets. Uruk was an ancient settlement of civilisation on the Euphrates river. Growth soon burst their urban growth boundaries.

The 'conquering hero narrative' to fix the 'problem' has endured over the 4000 years in all our storytelling, texts or rich media.

Gilgamesh’s journey led him into the surrounding forests to fight Humbaba, the guardian of the rich biodiversity of old growth forests.

On the way, he and his companion Enkidu had a dream when they heard Humbaba bellowing. The dream was about falling mountains, floods, desertification, thunderstorms and bushfires. Ignoring these nightmares they pushed on with their quest and massacred Humbaba, the defender and custodian of the ancient forest.

Gilgamesh was seeking lasting fame and he knew that his community's hunger for timber and growth implied consent for his actions. And so cities continued to spread and grow all over the planet.

#NativeForests #NSWLogging #logging #history #literature #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #hero #narrative #HeroNarrative #violence #extractivism #bushfires #floods #desertification #DustStorms #Urbanisation #SettlerSocieties #Sprawl #growth #expansion #nature #extinctions #climate #biodiversity

Forest guardians

One settler narrative is 4000 years old and has the spoiler:
Stop cutting down forests.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is ancient Mesopotamian literature written on cuneiform tablets. Uruk was an ancient settlement of civilisation on the Euphrates river. Growth soon burst their urban growth boundaries.

The 'conquering hero narrative' to fix the 'problem' has endured over the 4000 years in all our storytelling, texts or rich media.

Gilgamesh’s journey led him into the surrounding forests to fight Humbaba, the guardian of the rich biodiversity of old growth forests.

On the way, he and his companion Enkidu had a dream when they heard Humbaba bellowing. The dream was about falling mountains, floods, desertification, thunderstorms and bushfires. Ignoring these nightmares they pushed on with their quest and massacred Humbaba, the defender and custodian of the ancient forest.

Gilgamesh was seeking lasting fame and he knew that his community's hunger for timber and growth implied consent for his actions. And so cities continued to spread and grow all over the planet.

#NativeForests #NSWLogging #logging #history #literature #Mesopotamia #Gilgamesh #hero #narrative #HeroNarrative #violence #extractivism #bushfires #floods #desertification #DustStorms #Urbanisation #SettlerSocieties #Sprawl #growth #expansion #nature #extinctions #climate #biodiversity

Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/10/14/marcia-langton-whatever-the-outcome-reconciliation-dead#mtr

"As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/review-essay-on-settler-colonialism/E861A62A56088716F22C34C77C01F5C9

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/voters-reject-indigeneous-voice-to-parliament-referendum/102974522

#Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
>>!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/10/14/marcia-langton-whatever-the-outcome-reconciliation-dead#mtr

"As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/review-essay-on-settler-colonialism/E861A62A56088716F22C34C77C01F5C9

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/voters-reject-indigeneous-voice-to-parliament-referendum/102974522

#Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
>>!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/10/14/marcia-langton-whatever-the-outcome-reconciliation-dead#mtr

"As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/review-essay-on-settler-colonialism/E861A62A56088716F22C34C77C01F5C9

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/voters-reject-indigeneous-voice-to-parliament-referendum/102974522

#Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
>>!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/10/14/marcia-langton-whatever-the-outcome-reconciliation-dead#mtr

"As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/review-essay-on-settler-colonialism/E861A62A56088716F22C34C77C01F5C9

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/voters-reject-indigeneous-voice-to-parliament-referendum/102974522

#Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties

Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’
>>!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/10/14/marcia-langton-whatever-the-outcome-reconciliation-dead#mtr

"As the late Patrick Wolfe phrased it, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” Settler colonialism as a “structure not an event” captures the idea that settler colonial invasion of Indigenous lands should not be contained as a phenomenon of the past, but rather is continually reproduced throughout the history and present of settler societies..."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/abs/review-essay-on-settler-colonialism/E861A62A56088716F22C34C77C01F5C9

Australians reject Indigenous recognition via Voice to Parliament, referendum set for defeat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-14/voters-reject-indigeneous-voice-to-parliament-referendum/102974522

#Australia #Australians #culture #truth #Voice #reconciliation #IndigenousPeoples #rights #21stCentury #Constitution #Parliament #PatrickWolfe #SettlerSocieties