So does the 1938 English act Margaret Rutherford sail off to the League of Nations conservation-of-nature meeting in Geneva Switzerland when it had ice & snow and functional glaciers?

Aw well I at least get an exciting email from a South Australian Greens senator.

Sir David Attenborough lives they tell me. And alas so do National Grographic, Time Life and Disney World – catering to the bored idle rich white tourists of this already shattered global environment.

It’s their neoliberal End Times economy, Stupid.

Dear John,

Just over two weeks from now, one of the most important conferences for our environment will begin in Montreal. Biodiversity Conference COP15 is our chance to gain global agreement on a framework for protecting our environment and wildlife.

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While much of the focus has been on the UN Climate Change Conference COP27, there are important differences between the two conferences. While COP27 is focused on mitigating dangerous climate change and setting goals to limit warming to under 2 degrees celsius, the aim of COP15 is to adopt a globally agreed framework – called the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – for “living in harmony with nature.”

The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is as important to the protection of the environment as the Paris Climate Agreement was to fighting climate change. COP15 will set the targets for biodiversity to be achieved by 2050, to be used as a benchmark in the same way the Paris targets are used to track emissions reduction to address climate change.FIND OUT MORE ABOUT COP15

We are harming nature at an unprecedented rate. Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history, with a million species facing extinction.

COP15 will set out a plan to halt this deterioration.

To do this, we need the Labor Government to:

• Commit to a Post-2020 framework
• Halt the extinction crisis with a ‘zero extinction’ target
• Create plans to implement the 2050 vision for biodiversity
• Strengthen Australia’s weak environment laws
• Implement a ‘Climate Trigger’ so polluting projects are assessed for the emissions they create

Just as COP15 kicks off in Montreal, the Environment Minister will finally respond to the once-in-ten-year review of our environment laws aka the Samuel Review, back here in Australia. If the Labor Government doesn’t commit to a climate trigger in their response, it will not just be a missed opportunity but an indictment on their environment credentials during the international biodiversity conference.

We need to stop making the problem worse by opening up new coal and gas, and COP15 is our chance to create a global movement to tackle the biodiversity crisis with an ambitious plan to live in harmony with nature.

I will keep pushing the government to put Australia’s best foot forward at COP15 and I will keep you updated along the way.

Thanks for your support,

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young
Greens Spokesperson for the Environment

The entire world, or at least it’s affluent political class taking lots of rides in big/ small aeroplanes✈️/ 🛩 CANNOT either be serious OR be taken seriously.

This is an outrage by the deskilled recreationally-, socially- & tourism-preoccupied parasitic idle rich of this fracturing, collapsing, baking, freezing, burning, desertifying earth.

John Blundell @wired_we Australia