Mimi Bekhechi – Campaigns Strategies PETA, Sydney
The 2022 budget tossed around a lot of words like ‘biodiversity stewardship’, ‘Carbon Credit Units’ and ‘biosecurity certifications’ while actually cutting spending on climate by 35 per cent over the next four years.
It’s enough (and perhaps it’s intended) to make us throw up our hands and declare the battle against climate change is just too hard.
But it’s really very simple. We need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the ‘machine’ which does that best is the tree, with the added benefit that it emits oxygen for us to breathe.
To plant more trees, farmers need to stop breeding cattle and sheep. To get the farmers to stop breeding more and more animals, we need to stop eating meat.
It really is that simple.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
