Larissa Waters asks about a potential extinction crisis
Senator Waters asks how is hand-over of federal environmental powers to Campbell “we’re in the coal business” Newman and Barry “shooters in national parks” O’Farrell going to prevent an extinction crisis?
Last week, Sir David Attenborough and 32 other world-renowned UNEP’s Global 500 Laureates begged the Australian Government to retain their power to protect Australia’s national environment and not delegate it all to the states. They said the government should “avoid at all costs the devolution of the government’s environment powers”.
This comes on the heels of Tim Flannery’s Quarterly Essay which predicted a secnd wave of species extinctions throughout Australia.