Cartoon ideas from an opinion piece by John Bridgland continuing his exploration of the South Australian government exploitation of Adelaide’s 189-year-old park lands estate. Transparency campaigner and former SA senator Rex Patrick exposes the cozy relationship between Premier Malinauskas and the daily News Corp (Murdoch) newspaper The Advertiser …
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.
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.
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.
Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes – Gouverner dans l’urgence climatique – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in the Climate Emergency.
The 2020 book by Ray Ison and Ed Straw has just been translated into French by Houda Khayame. This meant that the 27 diagrams and illustrations that I had developed with Ray Ison needed to be translated and the French words and text integrated into the originals. Alas, my schoolboy French … but a number of translation sites were so helpful.
One of the group, Franck Varenne acknowledged the team involved with the French version.
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??
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.
