Ah yes logging..well familiar with what and how the industry does in Oz. Rape. It angers me when they talk about bs saving the environment on the news compared to real time reality. The logging areas I explore is crown land , belongs to the King, but the plantations are owned by a Canadian insurance company, logged by local logging contractors who vie for the contract, so fast and dangerous they do it. Kill any koala, wombat, echidna, wallaby, poison the platypus river in the way without hesitation. Whole mountains cleared within 3 days. The crooked industry makes wood chips for cardboard, chipboard, mdf. The two later products are totally single use for our shiny disposable kitchens etc. Or export low value wood chips.
On top of it now, they worry about fire danger, but they are only planting non native radiata pine now which poisons the fragile oz soil, nothing else shall grow in it again. Pine burns like hell, which does not matter for an insurance company, lets 'insure it!'. Pine supplies the 20 year polystyrene clad life cycle disposable shoe box house.
Most quarries on the crown land are used to gather gravel for the logging tracks. I am interested in the clays.
Honestly wonder if much is left in 50 years. I look at photos from 50 years ago, or 100 years, it was paradise. Massive parties were held beside waterfalls, the city people well dressed in fineries, would catch a steam train into the forests of the world's tallest flowering tree.
Greed and short term-ism is winning. We are of the last 'lucky generation' unless some pretty hard line rules get enforced. I believe longevity of products by all manufacturing is a key, like old landcruisers would tremendously help. Sorry to get dark, we are really lucky. They have to make stuff which is fixable.
On top of it now, they worry about fire danger, but they are only planting non native radiata pine now which poisons the fragile oz soil, nothing else shall grow in it again. Pine burns like hell, which does not matter for an insurance company, lets 'insure it!'. Pine supplies the 20 year polystyrene clad life cycle disposable shoe box house.
Most quarries on the crown land are used to gather gravel for the logging tracks. I am interested in the clays.
Honestly wonder if much is left in 50 years. I look at photos from 50 years ago, or 100 years, it was paradise. Massive parties were held beside waterfalls, the city people well dressed in fineries, would catch a steam train into the forests of the world's tallest flowering tree.
Greed and short term-ism is winning. We are of the last 'lucky generation' unless some pretty hard line rules get enforced. I believe longevity of products by all manufacturing is a key, like old landcruisers would tremendously help. Sorry to get dark, we are really lucky. They have to make stuff which is fixable.
