Great work. This could also be an excellent GetUp ad…perhaps you could send them a copy http://www.getup.org.au/.

It is marvellous how a cartoon can convey so much meaning in a small space that it would take thousands of words to vaguely represent.

Weak

Although not the main causative factor sited by the scientific community for the decline in rainfall in S. E. Australia their importance in the water cycle, among others including carbon makes the comment very pertinent.

The forestry industry are trying to sell the line you can have your cake, forest carbon sink, and eat it too, clerfalling to destry forests.

TEven if the products could be carbon accounted and inlcuded, of which I have seen no evidence, converting the deep carbon stores in undisturbed forest systems must emit more than their regrowth can accummulate befor they are again sacrificed for mammon.

A stupid species, Homo sapien will be lucky if the climate instability its activities are generating does not reduce its habitat to unliveable.

Lennon proved worthy of contempt. Most Tasmanian Labor politicians also. Howard, Abetz and other assorted *n*l fissures also. But Rudd is still in many ways an untested quantity on forests. He signed Kyoto. And he is not unresponsive to public sentiment.

But if he as yet has any intention to be more progressive on forests and hardline on forestry than either his predecessors, peers, or antagonists, then automatically crapping on him for not immediately doing everything that we want done isn’t likely to do any other than drive him into the camp of least irritation. Positive approaches, encouragement, and even gentle goading might do more good at this point than simple abuse.