I JUST LOVE THE EXPRESSIONS ON THESE PEOPLE - AT A TIME WHEN 'CONTAGIOUS' HAS NOT BEEN SUCH A GOOD WORD (in recent months) THEY REFLECT A SENSE OF CONTAGIOUS JOY. HAVING EXPERIENCED A TIME OF SEVERE STRESS YEARS AGO, I BELIEVE IN THE POWER AND CONSOLATION OF HOPE. SO GLAD TO FIND THIS STORY, IT'S ONE OF OPTIMISM. DON'T MISS THIS!
$4 Billion Land Management Stimulus Backed By 70 Organisations
By Jamieson Murphy Jul 2020
A STIMULUS plan that would create up to 53,000 conservation and land management jobs has been backed by more than 70 agriculture and environmental organisations.
The plan proposes to take people who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, particularly in regional areas, and redeploy them into temporary roles doing practical work on both private and public land such as weeding, removing invasive pests, planting trees, building National Park infrastructure and repairing river banks.
A report by Ernst and Young found that if the government invested $4 billion into a national conservation and land management program, it could raise economic output by about $5.7 billion, reduce welfare costs by $620 million and generate 53,000 jobs over the next four years.…
