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| Looking the other way: illegal clearing with a camouflaged bulldozer in 2013 near Walgett in NSW. |
The State of the Environment report, the latest five-year government snapshot, makes for generally dismal reading leavened only by occasional modest aspects on the improve.
Certainly, the independently researched study in places cuts to the chase: "Our natural environment makes human life possible, and our cultural environment helps define who we are”.
On that score, we must be defined as greedy, wilful myopes, hell-bent on running our natural assets into the ground (or the sea-bed).
Yes, air-quality in cities has generally improved and areas under protection in the National Reserve System have increased to an estimated 19.2 per cent of Australia, or about 147.48 million hectares, up from 17.9 per cent in 2014.
Read Peter Hannam’s analysis in today’s Melbourne Age - “State of the Environment report reveals a calamitous trajectory.”
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