Diluted Dante wrote:I don't think that's correct.
According to this, your total and commercial figures are right, but of the rest, Household is 27.3m, Construction 136.2m and Other 17.7m.
GooberTheHat wrote:… the corporate machine will only be checked by government policy.
poprock wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:… the corporate machine will only be checked by government policy.
Not true. I’ve done a lot of work on promoting the business benefits of moving to more sustainable practices. Most manufacturing and industrial businesses are throwing money away by not considering how to repurpose, re-use and exploit their waste streams.
Ironically, sometimes the best way to effect change in business behaviours is to get into the heads of decision makers on a personal level, as consumers. The guy who decides to stop buying carrier bags and start a compost heap in his garden is also the guy most likely to push for sustainability in his workplace.
But as well as climate change narrowing the window to carry out prescribed burning, Mullins said some fires have become so intense they have burned through areas that had been subject to hazard reduction.
Mullins has been fighting fires in NSW for months. Speaking to the ABC on Friday, he said he witnessed a fire in Grafton in an area that had burned only two weeks previously, but “the burnt leaves were burning again”.
He said: “There has been lots of hazard reductions done over the years – more by national parks than previous years – but the fires have burned through those hazard reduction areas.”
I worry for my grandchildren, their grandchildren. If this is how it is now, this is driven by climate change, imagine what future generations are up against and if Australia doesn’t take moral leadership on this, like we did with apartheid, nuclear weapons, things that we didn’t even have a 1.3% stake in, but we spoke loudly from a moral base. We can’t talk to Brazil, India, China or America about their emissions, so it’s about our grandkids and we need to take action and not pretend.
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