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STEP Matters Number 138, February 2007 STEP Matters Number 138, February 2007 Development Fever: Murray Hogarth Talk Environmental Law 1,400 Units at the San Workshop Tuesday 27 March, 8 pm, The law firm, Environmental St Andrews Hall, Vernon Street, STEP has always argued that we Defender’s Office (EDO) is holding a South Turramurra suffer from the tyranny of small workshop at Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Murray will talk decisions in the loss of bushland in Garden on Saturday 14 April. This is a on the hottest of Sydney. A scout hall here and a road great opportunity to understand the hot topics, widening there all seem harmless in law governing planning and climate change, isolation but at a loss of a few development, threatened species and covering the hectares a year it will all be lost or pollution as well as one’s legal essential hopelessly fragmented in another 200 options. See the flyer enclosed. years. science, the physical Welcome TABS Members Losing a lot of bushland in one go is, impacts, media, community and however, a different matter. Local As previously reported the Thornleigh government papers have reported that the area environmental group, TABS, has responses and Adventist Conference wishes to build joined with STEP. TABS was managing the changes through 1,400 dwellings on 60 hectares of its established in 1987 out of concern carbon and emissions trading. land at Wahroonga along with an about threats to, and degradation of, expanded school, a nursing college, a the bushland around Thornleigh. Murray was environmental editor for leisure centre, a sports field and retail The Sydney Morning Herald, and a and commercial areas. In order to do The move is complete and both reporter for the ABC’s Four Corners. this the Church has attempted to Graham Jones and Barry Tomkinson He joined Ecos Corporation in 1999, a bypass Ku-ring-gai Council by going have joined the STEP committee. company that advises and assists direct to the government to have the There are economies of scale, even firms to achieve sustainability with site classed as of ‘state significance’ for environmental groups, and the improved productivity through sound under Part 3A of the Act (see page 3). additional members and the energy environmental practices. Murray also and ideas from Barry and Graham can works with Easy Being Green, a The Church’s partner in this is the only make us stronger. Johnson Property Group – the outfit purpose-driven Australian company, that is causing so much heartache at part-owned by Ecos, helping people to We welcome all the TABS members Pitt Town. (See Elizabeth Farrelly’s fight climate change in their everyday who have had their membership 15 Nov 2006 article at www.smh.com. lives. Murray is a regular speaker and transferred. We trust that you will stay au/news/opinion/how-do-you-cook- commentator on sustainability issues. with us and that you will let us know of kellyville-max/2006/11/14/116326 He is a member of the advisory panel any concerns that you have. 6547678.html (or ask us for a paper for the Total Environment Centre's copy). Green Capital Program, and is a long- Funding is reserved for a signage standing board member of the project planned for Thornleigh bush- Bushland on the site is on both sides Environmental Defenders Office of land. There is no reason that the of Fox Valley Road. The eastern side NSW. He is the author of The 3rd established Thornleigh regeneration has previously been protected by the Degree: Frontline in Australia's and other activities should not now abandoned freeway corridor and Climate War, to be published in April. continue, the more the better! contains a Wianamatta Shale plant community. The western side contains This talk will complement that given In this issue the headwaters of the Lane Cove last year by Dr Lesley Hughes from Development Fever at the San 1 River and some wonderful bushland. Macquarie University who dealt with Murray Hogarth Talk 1 (continued on page 3) the science of climate change. Clean Up Australia Day 1 Environmental Law Workshop 1 Don’t miss it! Welcome TABS Members 1 Walks Programme 2 Clean Up Australia Day Plastic Bag Survey 2 EDO Public Seminar 3 Sunday 4 March is Clean Up Australia Population – A Conspiracy of Silence? 3 Day. Our new members from TABS will In Case You Missed It 4 be working as usual at Thornleigh Oval, Email Addresses 4 Handley Avenue between 8.30 am and Another Book from STEP 4 1 pm. Good shoes, hat and sunscreen The Next Frontier 4 needed and volunteers need to register at the oval first. Diary Dates: Talk 27 March, Enquiries: Graham Jones, 9484 4220. Walks 18 March and 1 April. STEP Inc Community-based Environmental Conservation since 1978 PO Box 697, Turramurra, NSW 2074 [email protected] www.step.org.au ABN 55 851 3472 043 Develop ment Fe ver (cont from page 1) Population – A Conspiracy of Silence? So how should we view this proposal? In his great book, Capitalism, As if the The Malthusian Outlook The San courts the community, World Matters (2005, Earthscan), We should be reminded again just including councillors, with its squeaky- Jonathon Porritt says ‘One area why this is important. It took the world clean hospital image and the where environmentalists and the until 1930 to reach 2 billion, another reputably clean Adventist lifestyle. progressive left are ‘as one’ is in their 44 years (1974) to reach 4 billion and There is a real goody-goody aspect to out-and-out refusal even to discuss it has now reached 6.6 billion on its it, the corollary of which is that they the importance of population … it’s way by 2025 to 8 billion and on to a are beyond reproach and it’s therefore hard to explain this conspiracy of current projected 9 billion by 2040. unfair to criticise. And who knows silence.’ While we carry on about the There are billions who now aspire to, when one needs to be admitted? evils of globalisation and impending and are reaching out for, our level of peak oil we never stop to ask how we consumption. In that scenario lie the On the other hand the Adventist are going to feed our current 6 billion seeds of conflict on a world scale as Conference has not, to our population, let alone the 9 billion it will 9 billion people fight over a declining knowledge, ever expressed the soon be, when the oil necessary for resource base. Then, as the slightest interest in, or concern about, food production is no longer available Malthusian vision becomes reality, we the natural environment. There seems at reasonable cost. Porritt tells us that will realise that we should have paid to be a blind spot there that reflects the continuing dramatic growth in the some attention to the people as well the old Judeo-Christian ethic of US population is ‘nowhere to be seen as to the beetles. taming the wilderness and counting on the mainstream environmental the well-being of the natural world as agenda in the US today’. So What’s to be Done? nought. It would be wonderful to be Over the last 25 years, while this So what can Australia, with its proved wrong on that score! newsletter did address the issue from relatively tiny population and Over-development and the removal of time to time, we felt restrained by the economy, do? It can become an bushland for building and for fire absurd political correctness dictum international activist. It can set an buffers will reduce wildlife corridors in that if you opposed population growth example for the world by campaigning the Lane Cove Valley and greatly add you were a racist – the implication for all those things that we already to the pollution load and degradation being that you opposed immigration know cause populations to decline: of the Lane Cove River. The loss of on racial grounds. In an interview on family planning, raising education flora and fauna would be very Radio National on 17 April 2006, Mark standards and confronting those significant. There are of course other O’Connor, author of This Tired Brown churches, the American neo- issues such as the traffic implications Land confirmed that that was exactly conservatives and others that are still and population densities in the area. the case with the Australian working to increase world populations. Conservation Foundation (ACF). While it is early days yet it seems The Conspirators are Us What can our environment clear that the Church will push ahead When we look at the ACF website we groups do? They can recognise with development and, undeniably, see that population has been added to that an over-populated, under-fed that is their right. Private land is not, the list of issues – right down the and under-resourced world is the however, free of planning restraint bottom. Their Policy Statement No 51, greatest foreseeable threat to and the bushland on the site will not evidently developed in 2003, lacks Australia’s and the world’s necessarily be available for teeth. In the April 2005 Habitat environment and well-being. destruction. The Conference should magazine the ACF had an article be asked to have a survey of the headed Population? No Problem that What can our environment groups do? bushland on the site carried out by a contained the pathetic advice that if They can recognise that an over- professional acceptable to it, Council we all reduced our consumption then populated, under-fed and under- and STEP.
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