Our environmental responses are often piecemeal and ineffective. Next week’s wellbeing budget is a chance to act

Sat, 5 Nov 2022 11:11:42 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/our-environmental-responses-are-often-piecemeal-and-ineffective-next-weeks-wellbeing-budget-is-a-chance-to-act-188366>

"Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ federal budget next week will for the first time
include a section on wellbeing, which aims to measure how well Australians are
doing in life.

The wellbeing budget will, among other things, assess the state of our natural
places using a set of environmental indicators. But what indicators? And what
environmental information should be used?

Getting meaningful environmental measures into the wellbeing budget won’t be
easy. And tokenism won’t do.

We need a system providing comprehensive, regular and up-to-date information
that can genuinely inform environmental and economic decisions."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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