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How Nature Matters: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Value – Simon P.
James (Oxford University Press)*.
In November 2022, the Australian government made a commitment to legislate new
protections of Indigenous heritage sites. The decision was made in response to
recommendations passed down by a joint parliamentary committee investigation
into Rio Tinto’s destruction of an Aboriginal sacred site at Juukan Gorge in
2020.
The sacred site, located in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, was of high
cultural and archaeological significance. It contained evidence of continuous
human occupation for over 40,000 years.
Incredibly, no laws were broken in the decisions that led to this destruction.
The issue we now face is how to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.
How Nature Matters, a recent book in the field of environmental ethics by
Simon P. James, offers some ideas on how to think about nature’s value and how
it should be protected."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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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
