{"id":41419,"date":"2022-10-27T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41419"},"modified":"2022-10-27T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:47:29","slug":"behind-the-green-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41419","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Green Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"jsc_c_1c\" class=\"x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"x1n2onr6\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"x6s0dn4 x1jx94hy x78zum5 xdt5ytf x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6 xh8yej3\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"xqtp20y x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"x10l6tqk x13vifvy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1ey2m1c xds687c x5yr21d x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy xh8yej3 xl1xv1r alignnone\" title=\"30x30 Land Grab\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsyd6-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/309872956_196158622781087_8610220099955839737_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=8bfeb9&amp;_nc_ohc=74zR01F2pxMAX9Fg9Tm&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fsyd6-1.fna&amp;oh=00_AfB1BGDpWAYp1T50LT7y3f2fYfsdTnvkJwhmslrTUQ90uw&amp;oe=63600F58\" alt=\"May be an image of cloud and text that says &quot;30 X 30 LAND GRAB&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1ey2m1c xds687c xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h\" data-visualcompletion=\"ignore\">\n<p>Under the guise of saving nature, the Albanese government has signed Australia up to one of the biggest land grabs in history.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed 30 by 30, the goal is to set aside 30 percent of Australia\u2019s land mass within a National Reserve System by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>And thirty percent is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>30 by 30 grew out of a thesis by the eugenicist Dr Edward O Wilson of Harvard University, who maintained that humans should occupy no more than one half of the earth \u2013 and not the best half either.<\/p>\n<p>His mantra was \u201cNature needs half\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal, therefore, is to lock away 50 percent of the earth by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Australian governments have pursued policies harmful to agriculture and a productive economy.<\/p>\n<p>30 by 30 will take this to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside that much land and water for conservation will ultimately destroy food production and regional economies.<\/p>\n<p>It will mean a massive expansion of national parks, marine exclusion zones, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, conservation easements, rural road and stock route closures and Indigenous Protected Areas.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, all human activity will simply be removed from these areas, including stock grazing, mining, timber production and all forms of recreational and Indigenous land use.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something seldom mentioned. Indigenous land use.<\/p>\n<p>For 30 by 30 to work, the government will need Australia\u2019s Traditional Land-owners to surrender all rights to access and use of the land held in their name.<\/p>\n<p>This dispossession of Indigenous rights has been hidden behind endless platitudes about \u201ctreaties\u201d, \u201cconservation management agreements\u201d and letting them \u201chave a say\u201d in what is happening, but the sub-text is clear.<\/p>\n<p>30 by 30\u2019s goal will restrict ALL human access to the land and waterways \u2013 and not just \u2018whitey\u2019.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, more than anyone else, should be raising hell about 30 by 30.<\/p>\n<p>All the platitudes, treaties and \u2018compensations\u2019 in the world, will be nothing beside the permanent loss of their sovereign right to roam over and use the land itself.<\/p>\n<p>The roots of 30 by 30 lie in a radical green agenda called the \u201cWildlands Project\u201d, from the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The Project\u2019s goal is to move humans into highly controlled, and restrictive \u2018human settlement zones\u2019, leaving most of the continent off limits.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a \u2018bait and switch\u2019 aimed at removing people\u2019s private property rights and placing control in the hands of an elite band of unelected technocrats, NGOs and their billionaire sugar daddies.<\/p>\n<p>All done by stealth using the old Fabian tactic of \u2018step-change\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Once 2030 rolls around, much harsher \u2018targets\u2019 will be set for 2040 and 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Each benchmark geared towards gently easing the human race into perpetual serfdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the guise of saving nature, the Albanese government has signed Australia up to one of the biggest land grabs in history. Dubbed 30 by 30, the goal is to set aside 30 percent of Australia\u2019s land mass within a National Reserve System by 2030. And thirty percent is just the beginning. 30 by 30 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behind The Green Mask&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41420,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41419\/revisions\/41420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}