Land Clearing in Australia
From an eco-critical lens, land clearing represents one of the key challenges of the Anthropocene, capturing the marginality between the human and nonhuman Worlds. Quintessentially, land clearing reflects an anthropocentric and highly androcentric society that refuses to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between humans and plants. Land clearing has not only led to the loss of biodiversity and decline of species, but it has also contributed to pollution of rivers and oceans and thus exacerbating the issue of water scarcity. Evidently, this environmental issue illustrates the entanglement of the multiple micro-worlds amalgamated into a singular macro-world, intertwined in a Sonderweb.
Weblinks:
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/07/19/state-of-the-environment--the-findings.html
https://www.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/209517/land-clearing-impacts-threatened-species.pdf
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-10-08/deforestation-land-clearing-australia-state-by-state/12535438
Sarah Laanani (z5260338)