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Category Archives: Environment

Making way …

More trees to go in the Adelaide Parklands … for the MotoGP …

Slurp ….

Mining giant BHP will continue to extract water from the Great Artesian Basin until at least 2036. Environmentalists and First Nations groups say a new agreement between the South Australian government and BHP…. does not do enough to end water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin.

BHP does not have a good environmental track record… here’s an example.

Tree telling …

The city of Adelaide is ringed by parklands. Laid out in its original design they were to be ‘a place for everyone’. However, particularly in recent years, they are being whittled away by encroaching developments. One indicator is the destruction of trees and habitat: 585 trees have just been felled for the redevelopment of the North Adelaide golf course, 400 trees will have gone for the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital (built on the parklands!) and about 45 trees will be removed for the MotoGP circuit ….

For much more on this, see the Adelaide Parklands Association website.

If you go down in the parks today …

The ‘Swiss Cheese’ safety model. One of the cartoon illustrations developed with Dr David Low for the Australian Pollution Research Network report Improving Child Safety in Public Parks and Playgrounds: a case study on hazardous chemical use in the City of Clarence, along with other cartoons used in their anti-pesticides campaigns.

… you could be in for a big surprise …

Park Lands chipped away …

As designed by William Light Adelaide was a city surrounded by wide parklands – parklands for all. Over many years they have been encroached upon by various developments, and this has ramped up under the Malinauskas government, encouraged by various influential groups, developers, lobbyists and more – as detailed by the Adelaide Parklands Association.

These things happen …

David Low (PhD), Australian Pollution Research Network:

‘Does this scene look unlikely? Actually, we found that the spraying of cancer-causing glyphosate and PFAS boosted herbicides onto children’s play areas is standard practice at Melbourne’s City Of Monash. The finding is discussed in a new report researched by students from Monash University’s Biosciences Department.

This reckless practice needs to be halted immediately to prevent further harm to children and expectant mothers using parks and gardens in Australia.’

Full copy of the researched case-study here:
https://lnkd.in/gMuSa2Rn

Cartoon from an idea by David Low.

Zero …

The barely relevant Liberal National Party LNP (or should it be NLP?) has decided to abandon the bipartisan Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions policy: the market will drive energy policy, bring down emissions – and prices …really??

Being a pest …

Pesticide found in blueberries

Cartoons for David Low, founder of the Australian Pollution Research Network. Drawn from his ideas and messages about the reckless use of pesticides, PFAS chemicals and more.

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program …

Pacific gaslighted …

Australia’s biggest gas project, Woodside’s North West Shelf, has received final approval to extend operations through until 2070.

Dissed …

Torres Strait community leaders in ‘deepest pain imaginable’ as federal court dismisses landmark climate case.