Where do we start ?
My reason for starting this tribute to AN Whitehead is the sinking ship of sustainability research that has been the terrible toy of politics, and their suspect new vehicles of governance and research, for at least 15 years .
It is absolutely no cooincidence/or surprise that the Australian Federal Goverenmnet have this last week stopped funding Land and Water Division because the whole focus of environmental research has lost its way .
The drip feeders ( like CMA,s and CRC' and water authorities and local government) in their youthful ignorance and arrogance have been complicit in misplaced concreteness in a grand way thats ground on ground credibility to a halt ; printing maps of problems and things they are monitoring BUT that they themselves aren't addressing .
Not that the States and other drip feeders who have allowed this to happen division are soley responsible . Cabinets own priorities in this area are all over the place symbolizing in turn by their desperation to "do something "( like putting bats in roofs)
The roof bat fiasco will seem like a mere belfrey problem when Australians discover their govts at both state and federal level have been wasting water money in way which beats anything anyone has been doing in their backyards during our dry years( My estimate will be in the hundreds each year for every household - to do what ? allow our polys to build water infrastructure that only goes rusty -you heard it first on blogger )
What can the thinking person do to relieve the pain ?
I could go on - Here is a few more . Its now up to you to tell us about your area of research and practice that has been undermined by the quickfixers .Be part of the solution - sustainability science
It is absolutely no cooincidence/or surprise that the Australian Federal Goverenmnet have this last week stopped funding Land and Water Division because the whole focus of environmental research has lost its way .
The drip feeders ( like CMA,s and CRC' and water authorities and local government) in their youthful ignorance and arrogance have been complicit in misplaced concreteness in a grand way thats ground on ground credibility to a halt ; printing maps of problems and things they are monitoring BUT that they themselves aren't addressing .
Not that the States and other drip feeders who have allowed this to happen division are soley responsible . Cabinets own priorities in this area are all over the place symbolizing in turn by their desperation to "do something "( like putting bats in roofs)
The roof bat fiasco will seem like a mere belfrey problem when Australians discover their govts at both state and federal level have been wasting water money in way which beats anything anyone has been doing in their backyards during our dry years( My estimate will be in the hundreds each year for every household - to do what ? allow our polys to build water infrastructure that only goes rusty -you heard it first on blogger )
What can the thinking person do to relieve the pain ?
I could go on - Here is a few more . Its now up to you to tell us about your area of research and practice that has been undermined by the quickfixers .Be part of the solution - sustainability science
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