Yes, this was almost exactly what I said when discussing this with someone offline, earlier…
I also suspect that is the case, here, even if the Speccy author is too naïve, or perhaps too scared of being sued, to outright say that…
But I 100% agree that both Labor and the Greens almost certainly had that in mind, when this decision was made…
Hell, I remember a decade ago, the Wilderness Society was deliberately and actively campaigning on behalf of Malaysian timber companies, to destroy the local industry (in Tasmania. Very successfully, I might add), in order to increase imports instead…
This has been a very long game. But I really don’t think most people who support and/or donate to these organizations realize that…
In case anyone is interested, Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron (of the clothing company Kathmandu) are both v corrupt, v wealthy individuals who I’m quite sure get backing from hostile regimes…
Their combined power is enough to get decisions like this one over the line. Not even kidding.
A modern version of the Rockefellers, if you will. Or obviously Bill Gates, but in a different arena…
After all, ‘twas Jane Goodall who said 90% human depopulation is “needed” to save the planet!
I fucking hate these old environmentalists…
Stick to saving old growth forests and hugging chimps, you fucking psychopaths…
Yes, this was almost exactly what I said when discussing this with someone offline, earlier…
I also suspect that is the case, here, even if the Speccy author is too naïve, or perhaps too scared of being sued, to outright say that…
But I 100% agree that both Labor and the Greens almost certainly had that in mind, when this decision was made…
Hell, I remember a decade ago, the Wilderness Society was deliberately and actively campaigning on behalf of Malaysian timber companies, to destroy the local industry (in Tasmania. Very successfully, I might add), in order to increase imports instead…
This has been a very long game. But I really don’t think most people who support and/or donate to these organizations realize that…
In case anyone is interested, Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron (of the clothing company Kathmandu) are both v corrupt, v wealthy individuals who I’m quite sure get backing from hostile regimes…
Their combined power is enough to get decisions like this one over the line. Not even kidding.
A modern version of the Rockefellers, if you will. Or obviously Bill Gates, but in a different arena…
After all, ‘twas Jane Goodall who said 90% human depopulation is “needed” to save the planet!
I fucking hate these old environmentalists…
Stick to saving old growth forests and hugging chimps, you fucking psychopaths…