Sorry BUT some of you MUST move out of the way. WE pay you to get it right first time.

And not stalling on what's required to make a decision. Your office is fully connected - ours isn't.
If you say you don't have some information to make a decision, please make sure you haven't lost a file, a contact or a guideline . a precedent
YOU are qualified to make decisions, just make them- even if you qualify them and make sure you do them in a timely manner (depending on the situation) no procrastination. 
In the future, you may be rewarded for how few delays, consultancies and referrals you feel you had to make to persons who remain unnamed and unaccountable for accountability and sustainability purposes. In case you have noticed,  its the planner's job to quickly and finally integrate the various concerns of others, so that sustainability decisions are made by you in a very timely manner. 


The otherwise most amazing King Canute was given a hard time because his own caution about just powerful he was,( was not)  was not matched by many of those who worked for him. The public service were not doing the planning job he expected them to do; to be practical realists who were confident to make real world decisions. 
Not only did he have an incompetent and inefficient public service He ALSO must have been a very wise leader because he knew his limitations. We pray to have more such leaders. and people who listen more carefully 

The courtiers of his day overrated their power to keep their economies going.  The mines which had made his Country rich were running short. 



BUT worse has come 
The courtiers of our day have often overrated their power and relied too much on their position instead of their ability to understand the complex ecologies of economy. 
Worse --modern leaders of Western democracies are elected on the basis of  highly inflated ideas of what new innovations and tecnology can do. Read Ellul and Whitehead

 Modern westerners  have let the idea of progress and experimentation allow them and their agents to go exploring (and wasting taxes) in fields where even courageous old scientists would not ever go . This is wrong and must be stopped by an insistence on competency in research and action spending. 

Sound hope is one thing we can sometimes find with competent leaders, but false hope is much more common and more appealing to many. 
In Australia in Nov 2024, Greenlabor  expects our homes to run on forms of battery power than have not even been invented yet.

Members of these lightheaded parties don't know that yet, but a lack of big picture knowledge and ground truthing is not uncommon amongst them.

Careless experimentation and the licensing to do it so must be stopped in favor of you making the best decision you can -When it comes to risk management that is all we expect. .   

The Republican mandate  USA 
WE wish them the best, but we pray they will listen to those who know HOW to care properly.
Otherwise,  all these great and good intentions will come to nothing; They can, by throwing the baby out with the dirt in the bathwater, be worse. read Ellul 






Those of us who really know how to care have seen it all before.
The wannabes see the waste, but that's not new; any fool can see THE PROBLEM .

What wannabes often cannot see is that they do not see the SOLUTION. That missing ingredient and recipe require  a fair bit of HOW.  Ineffective ways of how where and why of public process can litter modern risk management  with huge waste (time and resources ).   
The public service is full of talk of good intentions and that is one of its biggest hidden handicaps .We must be effective carers if we are to be paid. 

Talk is not enough , so those who real record is "not on the ground "should be questioned,
Those who can't immediately make a decision on the ground should also be questioned.

The process of sound reform 
Before the weed pulling occurs though , the whole place should be harvested to find what is still good inside the system.  
The careless wannabes see the problem so clearly that they are motivated only to action, The not so wise go where the angels fear to thread ( because they are ignorant of the complexity of decision making in care work) ,I f leaders are there only as agents of new change, they should not be there.

Really effective care takes years to learn and perpetuate; its a profession based not only on sound education BUT sound application. With the new ideas generation at the doorstep,  its the mature stable and sustainable work methods (respect for EFFECTIVE application and experience ) that must be recognized first. Care focused on Growth is also complex and multi faceted , Sometimes pillows sometimes pain.  Proper performance assessment  must weigh heavily  on time in the job.

 
What wannabes often can't see is that they cannot even see what to do about the problem. WHAT WHERE  WHEN   They not only will take too long, but on their own they never get there. 

If by OUR GREAT GOOD FORTUNE they admit they don't new know what to do about the problem,  those of us who have learnt exactly HOW to care,  have a chance to survive, "Move out of the way, you are taking too long", Real carers are efficient machines,  but it doesn't take much to wear them out .    Even a trainee needs someone to correct him, Proper performance assessment  must weigh heavily  on time in the job.This can be rare in some sectors. Look for that and high loss rate. 

If the incumbents act too quickly or without a view to effective long term reform,  the star players that The Trump collective want in the system will soon be gone. ;   they may well be gone anyway.

 A good player 's team might already exist somewhere - go find it . Those who always run meetings, contracts and data collection should always be questioned.  Trust should be a test for performance - not a pile of stats .  
The capables have been in hiding for years, so the good ones will take some finding and reenergizing ( because caring is still hard work,  even if you know how to do it yourself.)  Really short staffed happens because the real work is hard and efficiency only focus will kill incentive .. 

We all need to see how we all would quit if the incompetent person is in charge , "
Find those people  and nail them!
In order to reduce the natural tendency for incompetence to take charge in the public service, we need to know what we all  can do to stop that. Some of the departments are big,  but making them smaller and more accountable regionally and close to need areas will be pleasing and more sustainable for many. Lots more to consider.  
 

Bloated empires and corruption - it's all happened before and it could happen again - especially with the pressure of public debt and the  very high risk of death bleeding and complete failure in the caring professions.  
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Who really cares ?

 
Up until yesterday ( When Trump won the Presidential election ) one could have thought WW3 was  about which party in the USA really cares.
The Democrats wanted us to believe the devil incarnate would allow the rich to ride roughshod over the poor 
while many Republicans appeared to want no real King but one clumsy Caesar .



I agree with many that its ALL very scary.
Democracies are clearly at great risk because for all intents and purposes ( AC Grayling)  good leaders are crushed , the idiots and children appear on our screens and the process is precarious and ineffective.  
According to Ellul, what doesn't work in technological society gets thrown out.
And all of us Concerned for Responsible Citizenship know things can get worse not better with the reactionary and childish drivel that is thrown at us by the wannabes, the desperate elites and screen idols.   
 
Maybe only Jung and a few more objective persons should have the last word because both major parties ( same here in Australia) are rich and

---- the real problem is we still don't know how to help the poor ,(eg homes work and freedom to speak and do ); the real problem is we still don't know how to care and we ,because clearly many do not really give a stuff about anyone else, don't really know who really cares ( big picture ecology ) 

I am not going to add to the simmering heat by discussing the matter too much further except to say that I wish the Republicans the best because they 

1. have admitted to the problem outlined. Confession makes the best start. 
2. have a team who talk credibly to being more effective and efficient in use of taxes 
3. build their case for a war against the current high levels of incompetency by making competency the competitive focus 
4. have reminded us that the greatest evil (eg having too many people living as complete dependents  on the tax take ) has been done and is often still done in the name of the best intention ( eg bloated public service ) 
5. talk about courage which is the thing that can overcome the inertia of incompetence 
6. have a track record in actually doing something productive and not hiding behind a life of failure in being able to invest their own money and decision making wisely
7. aren't afraid to say with both Nietzsche and Jung that the danger of all dangers is that we let our minds become our own worst enemies and poorest defense.
8. give us some concrete hope for a future based not on emotion, but on sound discipline of the mind and thoughts for our life together . 
   
   
   That might be enough for now. 

The peasants have reason to be revolting

 You may think that the rural purges of Stalinist Russia ,Communist China, Rwanda, Serbia,Sudan  and Cambodia were really really bad, but the demon that drove them has not left us. 
There are still tyrants who are taking over land that is not theirs (and they are not just  in northern Europe ) These tyrants are all occupying positions of authority over land they do not own in England , Australia, Europe and America. 

The new owners in the West take over in much more subtle ways than the above . They  even change the ownership balance to prevent 'ownership: concepts like the leaders did when they rid Europe of serfs .
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These arrogant newcomers assume authority over our land management decisions . They  get away with it because they do it so nicely and with all the justification of their idea that our/your world is in danger. They claim their territory in the name of science even though they don't practice science properly

Those of us online here question deeply what they really know and beyond that , whether their medicine will work even on the sores they identify, AS practical real world risk takers who KNOW the complexity of ecosystem protection and how to manage them , we simply do not accept their "the last word "on risk and eco management, as the way forward. We need to stop the wasted bleeding and get some healing; some more resilience discussions and how to find it conversations and legs on the ground .

The huge dilemma farmers have always managed in trying to look after all the animals on their land is symbolized for me in this mature lamb still getting milk from its mother. I have a blog on childrenincharge

The mature mothers and fathers looking on would scratch their heads , if they could,

at such behavior.

What we are calling for   - is sound fully scientific management of the spaces.

Men can live with nature and the new places provided we keep our demands within the ecological limits.  Censure, dependency  and indulgence is not right when a proper balance can restore resilient and sustainable order.  

WE do not accept the simple answer is" no more  harvesting of  life at a mature age" ( Which is not a cop out , but a part answer to freedom from the pain of life ; it's inevitable grief separation and death ) WE  want freedom of the immediate carer and his community to make care filled decisions; and for them and us to enjoy, instead of just grief and pain, the joy of providing food, caring for their ecosystems and seeing new life grow safely within them.  

You should be aware that

unless Westerners turn much of their investment money that they currently spend on researching and reducing their fears (and forgetting about helping produce resilience using known science), the noise from the fearmongers, and the new fiddlers around the edge of the fears, will dominate. 

Because most of the current research is party politically driven and reactionary it cannot be expected to be productive. That means whatever happens our children  will have less productive surplus based investment opportunities than we have had.

The trouble with dams

Maybe Bob Brown was right about one thing. That is that - it's possible to have too many dams. 
Trouble is, the one good point he made seems to have stopped him realizing that he is still as silly , reactive and as ignorant as most of us; He has not shown any wisdom by resisting the trend in our age to give all dams a bad name.





Worse, as a movement. like so many baby Greens shoots, they think they know enough to work in the court of human beings when their misanthropy, immaturity, pride and ignorance will only ever create war with the deep truths of nature. And their pride continues to stand in the road of those who know how its profound chemistry and physics must be studied and respected first. 
They too of course, like most of us, forget the toughest and most evil beast of all; human nature itself.
Jung said the only remaining problem for man is man himself.
Ellul ( The Technological Society) said that technology is not the problem, but our worship of it is.    

THE FLOODS OF early 2020's
Not one of our polys have never known what they are doing here with wonderful water, but they keep fiddling and meddling with flows, walls and gates. Finally in 2020's, God had the last say and allowed the horse to bolt in its naturally productive time honored way.  
Yet nobody, with this decisive dramatic truth being exposed, is now happy.
Nobody is now sure whether they want rejuvenation when it's at the cost of huge floods, silt and bedload movement, but that is exactly what is needed to reset the redgum and the other seeds in the wetlands.

Make up your minds people .  Nature says one thing and you should listen first to it .but then ,

Men, made in the image of the Creator may say another . 
Our dam creations have, for the first time in decades, played their noninterventionist role by just being pools in the stream flow. Our gates were never going to be opened enough to even create the Environmental Pissing Flows planned by Burke and other burk's, so the huge events needed to get wetlands to rejuvenate, meant the storages stayed close to full till this summer,
Naturally, because of the perversity of men's minds and the predictability of natural forces, these very useful drought, irrigation, power and flood detention storages remain close to full because no one dares to create the sort of flood, bed loads and silt deposition that upsets those riverside visitors who haven't yet lived there long enough to know how to really live with and respect nature.