The megacorps are in the driving seat, of course, but where’s the political leadership? The answer is there is none.
With 300 fresh job losses in town, and many more behind the scenes, it’s time to ask who is running the forests.The answer is there is none.But there has been so many different forest ministers these past few years, I’m not sure who we can blame for the poor state of our forests, let alone the 50,000 forestry jobs we’ve lost in the past two decades, half the forest sector’s workforce.
And if by some miracle they did, the big urban electorate wouldn’t know where the horizon between reality and industry propaganda lies. All they see is a politically powerless backwater for the taking, a hinterland to siphon resources from to keep the big city wheels turning, their beloved billionaire happy, and the hospital donations rolling in.
Why is it that our previous chief forester is permitted to jump ship to become a vice president of a bioenergy megacorp, whose access to our already tapped-out forests she promoted while a public servant?
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