Is co-vid a means that GAIA fights back as man seems to be killing nature?  Is it possible that the planet is becoming over-populated?  Think of what happens when an area that is fenced and contains livestock when the livestock cannot leave the fenced area.  What happens when the once massive herds on the planet are restricted and/or somehow restrained from their usual wandering range?  If I am correct in my basic knowledge, the land becomes stripped, that is, bare, unsuitable for sustaining any life.  Is Big Business at last taking notice of what they might be doing to their own living space instead of to someone else’s?

 

Expanding Native Forests:                            Create a buffer zone around the forest and let the forest expand, then put a buffer around that so that over time, possibly generations, but hopefully with the proper assistance, quicker, native areas get bigger and are also linked by generating 'corridors'.  Jobs are created in forestry environmental study in the buffers and forest.  I use the term 'environmental study' because the word 'management' implies straightening something which we do not like, but, is perfectly acceptable to nature.  As the buffers slowly get bigger more people are employed.  Depending on the area wildlife and plant diversity is encouraged which means employment for scientists (botanists, biologists, medical applications, water quality and/or purity)/caretakers (feral plant eradication/study?).

Jobs in ECO tourism can also be probable, along with education possibilities and with rangers who over time will get experience with the variations and transit difficulties about the area.

In the case of fires, should they be fought, or controlled only at their edges, or in the buffers?  Extra training so the scientists fight fires?

Among possible drawbacks is accommodation, which implies pets making difficulties (feral dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other assorted creatures).  Tracks/paths/roads which allow access over time can become wider and if not controlled exacerbate deterioration rather than repair it.

Not in any order 

1)     Will politicians offer to take a permanent drop of up to twenty-five percent of their pension if any plans they put forward that involve massive - twenty-five million dollars - expenditure of public monies, are later proven to be just as massive 'stuff-ups'?  Subsequent 'offences' add to the percentage.  Twenty-five million is just an arbitrary figure, I am just as happy to lower it.  Any monies recouped are to go towards remediation, and not into general revenue and possibly not audited only by Government auditors.

If included in the group creating the problem is a retired politician who has become a lobbyist, could they be exposed to the same penalty?

 

 

2)     What is the possibility that at the next election that the total vote for the two major parties combined totals less than forty percent because people are fed up with the shenanigans of both parties?  This means that leaves up to possibly sixty percent individual Independents.  Good luck getting consensus.  Oh to be a fly on the wall if this happens - politics might again have some relevance.