“Cathedral of nature” to be felled for dual-occupancy development
15d 14h ago by aussie.zone/u/arbilp3 in environment@aussie.zone from aussie.zone
In the Cairns suburb of Freshwater, chainsaws are about to destroy an 80-year-old raintree to make way for a dual-occupancy investment property...
I joined the Freshwater raintree campaign early on due to my deep concern about how nature loss is affecting human health.
As a GP, I know heat kills more Australians than all other natural hazards combined.
Yet across the nation, we are chopping down the very things that help us build climate resilience, showing repeated disregard for their value as a natural air con...
It’s not new knowledge that human health is inextricably tied to the health of our natural world. We literally depend on it for everything.
Year on year, we are seeing the mounting impacts of nature loss on our overstretched health services.
Extreme heat already leads to more deaths and hospital admissions than any other hazard in Australia, and this is set to worsen alongside climate change.
In Western Australia, a study found areas badly hit by dryland salinity had an associated elevated risk of hospital admissions for depression.
Conversely, research by the University of Adelaide estimated that every visit to a national park saved the health budget around $100.
And a 10% increase in tree canopy cover is linked to reduced risks of all causes of death, including heart attacks.
Those statistics invite us to acknowledge that health begins outside of hospitals and GP clinics.
This tree never contributes to GDP growth! Just another useless moocher!
But it does, if it keeps people healthy then they can better contribute to the economy.
We don't do second oder effects! Line must go up now!
This shit makes me so mad. My area is known for its leafy blocks and streets but because of proximity to CBD and prettiness it was voted up and now all the houses sold are being knocked down and mcmansions built. I'm not against the mcmansions if that what your heart wants but don't kill what few beautiful gums we have; there's a bunch of desert to the centre of the country, build them there.
in america, in the early 1900s a scientists found rare unusual plants that are usually endemic to tropical asia and south america, and its unheard of it in temperate america, but it went extinct(allegedly) when the habitat it was destroyed in chicago(calumut area). the closest relative apparently is temperate parts of japan.
Totally agree. It really looks like people's values and our understanding of what's important to face the future have been dumped. It appears we want to destroy the natural world and many of us along with it. I am also so angry when I see what our children are already facing and what they'll have to deal with in the future.