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Labor reinforces it won't end Tasmania's native forest logging after candidate's comments
By Bec Pridham and Ashleigh Barraclough

Federal Labor steps in to clarify its position on native forestry in Tasmania after the party's Bass candidate, Jess Teesdale, voiced support for an end to the practice in the state.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/fed

ABC News · Federal Labor candidate for Bass Jess Teesdale walks back support of end to native forestryBy Bec Pridham
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry#Forests#AustralianFederalElections
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Labor reinforces it won't end Tasmania's native forest logging after candidate's comments
By Bec Pridham and Ashleigh Barraclough

Federal Labor steps in to clarify its position on native forestry in Tasmania after the party's Bass candidate, Jess Teesdale, voiced support for an end to the practice in the state.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/fed

ABC News · Federal Labor candidate for Bass Jess Teesdale walks back support of end to native forestryBy Bec Pridham
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry#Forests#AustralianFederalElections
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Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist

If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."

According to GüntherThallinger, a former top executive at Germany's branch of the consulting giant #McKinsey & Company and currently a board member of #Allianz SE, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, the #ClimateCrisis is on a path to destroy #capitalism as we know it.

"We are fast approaching temperature levels—1.5C, 2C, 3C—where #insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many" of the risks associated with the #climate crisis, Thallinger writes in a recent post highlighted Thursday by #TheGuardian.

There is no way to "adapt" to temperatures beyond human tolerance. There is limited adaptation to #megafires, other than not building near #forests. Whole cities built on flood plains cannot simply pick up and move uphill. And as temperatures continue to rise, adaptation itself becomes economically unviable.

Once we reach 3°C of warming, the situation locks in. Atmospheric energy at this level will persist for 100+ years due to carbon cycle inertia and the absence of scalable industrial carbon removal technologies. There is no known pathway to return to pre-2°C conditions. (See: #IPCC AR6, 2023; NASA Earth Observatory: "The Long-Term Warming Commitment")

At that point, risk cannot be transferred (no insurance), risk cannot be absorbed (no public capacity), and risk cannot be adapted to (physical limits exceeded). That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable.

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Common Dreams · Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist | Common DreamsIf humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."
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BellingenNSW

"The logging industry is finding ways to get around the so-called ban."

"A loophole in the law banning Victoria's native timber harvesting means logging projects can still go ahead as the state government passes project approval responsibility to local councils."

"How could it be that a local council would have the expertise, the biological and ecological expertise, to approve logging in an area? When you log and regenerate an area of native forest … that same area of forest becomes much more flammable for a prolonged period of time," Professor Lindenmayer said. "I don't think that we should be adding that extra fire burden for rural and regional people to have to deal with."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-04-03/tim
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #bushfire #risks #conservation #biodiversity #wildlife #forests #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #council

ABC News · Government passes responsibility of approving private native timber logging to councilsBy Tavleen Singh
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Traceability of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur logs: the Biomtrace database was created with the aim of developing algorithms for the biometric traceability of logs, involving artificial intelligence approaches that require large databases.
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#Forests #AI #Biometry #Wood #Woodtracing

BioMed CentralTraceability of oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Quercus robur L.) logs: the Biomtrace database - Annals of Forest ScienceKey message The Biomtrace database contains 33,390 RGB images of the butt end cross-section of 5135 French oak logs. Each log was photographed several times with different camera orientations during an initial shooting session. For more than half of the logs, additional photos were taken at least 3 weeks after the first photo session. Cross-sections were segmented on all the images using the PointRend convolutional neural network. Spatial calibration was carried out by a specific algorithm using a checkerboard pattern present in each image. This image database was created with the aim of developing algorithms for the biometric traceability of logs, involving artificial intelligence approaches that require large databases. But other applications are also possible, such as the automatic extraction of information on the size and quality of logs. The Biomtrace database is available at https://doi.org/10.57745/9DBCL4 , and associated metadata are available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/feda0a0e-041a-4190-9a73-5159b10ff0f0 .
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1232601/hearing-t Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time #AI. #animals #birds #ClimateChange #forests #OIST #Okinawa #OkinawaTopics #tech #沖縄 Onna, Okinawa Pref. – In Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, there’s a field — now largely overgrown but once home to numerous farms — boxed in by highways, a major U.S. military base and various residential complexes. Amid the tall grass sits a high-end audio recording device with a small, alm…

Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

this isn’t just about losing #biodiversity —it’s about losing the foundations of life itself. #forests that store #carbon, wetlands that filter #water, #insects that pollinate our food—all of it is at risk. but beyond the material loss, there’s something deeper: the grief of watching the world grow emptier, the cultural devastation for those whose traditions are tied to these disappearing #landscapes. we are not separate from nature. when #species vanish, we lose a part of ourselves too.⁠
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