I received a copy of the “Wilderness News” recently. It is the propaganda magazine of the Wilderness Society of Australia. I received it because I sent a letter to “save” the Tasmanian forests from the Tasmanian Government, and a corporation that they work for and are paid by, Gunns. More specifically the letter was an attempt at stopping a pulp mill. The letter was sent to the European branch of the Resource Planning and Development Commission (RPDC), which has a branch in Australia, but the Tasmanian Government and Gunns bypassed it. They decided to make up their own rules, of course.

I believe that writing a letter was probably the most ineffective way to create real change that I could have done.

With the magazine I also received a letter begging for money. They are trying to stop the pulp mill going ahead through legal means. If they succeed, the government will probably just change the law, again. The already did it once, do the Wilderness Society really believe they wont do it again? In the begging letter I received there was even a statement of surprise that the government changed legislation so that Gunns could bypass the RPDC procedure. Why was that? I find it hard to believe that any mainstream environmentalist would still be surprised that government and corporations get together to rig the system in their favour, and at the expense of human and non-human living beings, like forests, and the animals who depend on forests. How stupid are they? They must know that we live in a real corporate/government fascist state.

The magazine says a lot about the level of awareness of the Wilderness Society though. At least the people who produce the magazine. The environment is talked of as a piece of art that has to be preserved for the benefit of humans who want to observe the beauty. Either that, or as a natural resource that has to be managed. Anything but as a living being that deserves to be respected for that, and deserves to have a sane culture be in a sustainable relationship with it. The mainstream environmentalists see nature, the living earth, as just a resource for the benefit of humans, just like the people who want to destroy the living earth for dead money. Just like the people who want to turn living wild forests into dead lengths of two by fours.

In fact, as I have probably written on this blog before, the Wilderness Society, and other mainstream environmental organisations actually make money out of the destruction of the planet. They encourage passivity. They want people to just send them money, and then apparently they will get on with stopping the destruction. The more destruction, the more money they get. It doesn’t seem to be in their interest to really stop anything. The Wilderness Society are not asking people to get actively involved. They don’t want huge numbers of people to go into the forests and burn the logging machines, or cut off power to the sawmills. They don’t want activity. They are quite happy to try to stop pulp mills, or logging in the courts. The same courts where the law is written by people who are owned by logging corporations. It doesn’t seem to me that the Wilderness Society really want to succeed.

The magazine also seems to portray the idea that humans can have everything we have now, and have wild places such as forests. We can apparently live in unsustainable ways, like living in cities, and having cars, and living in houses which are hooked up to electricity, and have anything living that is not human. Not civilised human of course.

Civilisation is pathological. It is run by psychopaths, who will not stop until they have destroyed the whole planet. There is no middle way. If you want living wild places to remain then the system that is destroying all life on earth has to go.