The current rush by the Albanese government to ram laws through Parliament based on the contradictory aims of benefiting both big business and the environment has left no room to discuss what honest environmental protection means .

Resource extraction from nature causes environmental destruction and, while less is left of Earth's natural ecosystem than ever before in human history, the rate of destruction of nature is increasing.

The amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) revealed by the Environment Minister Murray Watt last week won't change that, precisely because those amendments were drafted to appease the Coalition and big business. The absurdity of Watt wanting the Greens to pass such amendments if the anti-environment forces back off is

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