Tomorrow is World Environment Day. Perhaps a time to reflect on what has been achieved in terms of environmental protection including controls on pollution? A lot of time and money has been invested in improving water quality in our rivers and streams – is water quality improving?
If I were to nominate specific areas of environmental need, high on my list would be better monitoring programs including easy access to data from these monitoring programs so we can understand how things are trending over time – on water quality, the state of our National Parks, Murray Cod numbers, Koala numbers.
For example, what about daily information on water quality in rivers and streams being publicly available?
Couldn’t this most basic of information be reported daily in our newspapers and online – perhaps in the same way information is reported on commodity prices?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
CO2 increase came after temp rise not before.
Aust. story 06/06/05 ABC . It is applicable generally. The same geological structure needed as for the construction of Qanats in ancient.Only found along high rainfall mountain range.
Eyebrows scrunched ……
Whaaaaat??????
Given that humanity is part of the natural order, anything that we humans do will affect our “environment – some of which will result in adverse effects.
Unless those effects are mitigated by feedback, any environmental change will be shortlived.
This suggests that biota recognising the effects of their activity, commensurate with their ability to act on that recognition, are able to adjust that activity, so in order to reduce the effects noted beforehand.
Or expressed as an Enderism, only the dumb continue blindly – the wise note, react, and change.
Dinosaurs versus fossils.
Climate sceptics versus global warmers.