In the imagination of the business/political circles of the right-wing Bacon ALP in Tasmania lurks a fantasy that environmentalism is killable. Why so? Because they believe that there is nothing in the biophysical world of Tasmania to explain or justify an environmental movement.

Crazy huh? Well, we are dealing with a collective fantasy of their pioneer political unconscious fixated on economic growth. There is nothing wrong in Tasmania's t magnificent old growth forests being turned into woodchips and exported at rock bottom prices to Asia. While large areas of temperate rainforest are temporarily "devastated" by forestry, these regenerate to regrowth dominated by native trees rather than exotics.

Environmentalism is seen as a sort of religion created by cant and mischief of ratbag, doom and gloom greenies. No environmental crisis exists. They who say otherwise are deluded by their anti-development fundamentalism.

All's not right in Tasmania's ecology:

David Stephenson, Drowned, No. 34 (Arthurs Lake, Tasmania) 2001

That is objectively there in the biophysical world. it is the consequence of Tasmania becoming a heavily hydro-industrialised State that now faces potentially the biggest expansion in river regulation in decades.

The destruction of flooded trees was caused by human beings concerned with water development to meet Tasmania's economic and social objectives. That is why there is opposition to business-as-usual in Tasmania.