The family farm - years of 'bashing and burning'

"I bashed the trees down and burnt everything … I was a bash and burner."

"It took about 200 years to transform a once wild island into an agricultural powerhouse,
farmers raised to conquer the land; slashing native vegetation to make way for agriculture.Much of King Island's native vegetation has been cleared for farmland."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/king-island-environmental-destruction-farmer-conservationist/104743516
#extinction #farming #FamilyFarm #Australia #LandClearing #culture #SettlerSociety #machinery #SlashandBurn #deforestation #meat #biodiversity

“‘Fixing’ NHS waiting lists by not fixing you – Streeting to pay GPs NOT to refer sick to hospital”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
@UKLabour

“Labour puts GPs on ‘bonus to turn a blind eye’ to game NHS data and fool public it’s cutting waiting lists, as reality of ‘integrated care’ plan further exposed”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/18/fixing-nhs-waiting-lists-by-not-fixing-you-streeting-to-pay-gps-not-to-refer-sick-to-hospital/

"Our processes stand in stark contrast to the sloppy work of our peers in DOGE. Their slash-and-burn tactics had them reportedly holed up in a boarded-up conference room in the basement of our office, deciding the best way to seemingly dismantle our agency."
#FeralRepublicans #FeralMusk #SlashAndBurn #MoveFastAndDestroyTheWorld
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/five-young-cfpb-staffers-fighting-for-jobs-doge-firings

How a mayor beat the loggers to turn the place green again
Could Bellingen become a “green municipality”?

"A region battered by predatory logging and ranching...With its forest-gobbling ranchers, bootleg loggers and dodgy sawmill operators, this sprawling township the size of Israel was a big red flag."

“For decades, Paragominas was one of the Amazon’s epicentres of deforestation and timber extraction. That changed in 2008, with the municipal environmental pact, which reduced deforestation by 80%,” says Beto Veríssimo, co-founder of Imazon, a rainforest-based thinktank. ..Controlling deforestation turned the township into a magnet for investment and economic growth.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/brazil-amazon-paragominas-deforestation-landgrabs-shootouts-logging-slash-burn-farming-green-sustainability
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #Gleniffer #Amazon #biodiversity #NativeForests #FrontierCommunity #logging #slashandburn #NSWLogging #FarrRight #governance

Streeting's NHS slash-and-burn '10-year plan': close hospitals, privatise, coerce, ration, deny.

https://archive.is/RrWo0