Working with the System
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Images (pics, maps and covers) drawn from Kororoit Institute submission to parliamentary inquiry into Ecosystems Decline in Victoria, with minimal commentary aside from section headings and recommendations, providing context for discussion of where we take this from here, both the global task of insisting on the urgent need for humans to work with rather than against until now dangerously suppressed ecosystems, and the local task of working with structures of our colonial political economy to ensure the tide is well and truly turning.
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Working with the System
- 1. Working with the System Reversing Ecosystem Decline in Victoria Tony Smith Melbourne Emergence Meetup 11 March 2021
- 2. Recommendation 1: Context, Complexity, Connectedness Recognise that ecosystems are best understood through a lens revealed by both long-refined indigenous oral knowledge and recent complex systems science; that of local context, inherent complexity, and strong connectedness; avoiding placing too much expectation on fatal oversimplifications enshrined in linguistic prescriptions, or the even less appropriate approach of relying on tradable scalable estimators of value. 1. How indigenous thinking can save the planet From Sand Talk Between Two Books Around the world Interlude 1-2: Jim Rutt with Tyson Yunkaporta 2. Exploring a world of complex systems Interlude 2-3: Fungi take complexity out of sight
- 5. Recommendation 2: Persistent Adaptable Knowledge Stack Accept there are unhelpful biases in how we have traditionally assessed ecosystem health, that demand spreading attention far beyond iconic endangered species to whole biological and physical systems across wide spatial and temporal scales, recognising all Life is distinguished by embodying adaptable knowledge representations from basic biochemistry to genetics, behaviour, cognition and culture. 3. Vital underpinnings out of sight—out of mind 4. Life as an adaptive whole and its substrates To reverse Ecosystem Decline and save Life, we must respect, protect, and reconnect the vital relationships obsessive reductionism has been tearing apart. 5. Prosperity and persistence of populations
- 7. It’s 52 weeks since we started talking about Suburban Sclerosis & Pandemic went Viral
- 11. Recommendation 3: “Delivering Melbourne’s Newest Sustainable Communities” Recognise that ecosystems are best understood through a lens revealed by both long-refined indigenous oral knowledge and recent complex systems science; that of local context, inherent complexity, and strong connectedness; avoiding placing too much expectation on fatal oversimplifications enshrined in linguistic prescriptions, or the even less appropriate approach of relying on tradable scalable estimators of value. Preamble to 6: Charles Grimes charting Estuaries of the West 1803 6. Critically endangered volcanic plains grasslands 6.1 Railway Coal Canal (Moonee Ponds Creek) Interlude 6.1-2 City of Moonee Valley Integrated Waterways Advisory Committee 6.2 The Quarry Belt (Maribyrnong River) 6.3 Stony Creek Diversions Waterway Naturalisation? Western Grasslands Reserve? 6.4 Pelican Lake (Jones Creek) Interlude 6-7: Crawling out of Second Wave brings new perspectives for sorting An active planet with billions of years of coevolving biology is far more precious than anything humankind has yet got close to achieving.
- 12. One of three front windows of the “marketing department for killing native wildlife”
- 14. Park boundary, January 1977, derived from map 2: Existing conditions Maribyrnong Valley Metropolitan Park Master Development Plan prepared for Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works by Kenneth J Podalowski, Professor of Landscape Architecture Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
- 20. Recommendation 4: Recovering Fundamentals of Gadubanud Country Enshrine priority of living knowledge embodied in all areas of life over proclamations encoded in frozen text; not idealising away momentary inconveniences to human aspirations from the functional requirement of life forms to reproduce prolifically, feed, grow, learn and adapt; but celebrating and sharing the dynamics of living landscapes operating on the divergent timetables of geomorphology, seasons, tides and waves. 7. In and out of the water along the Great Ocean Road 7.1 Under Great Ocean Road Waves 7.2 Exploring Tracks into the Forest 7.3 Getting to Know the Wildlife
- 27. Recommendation 5: Inherited Local Capacity for Ongoing Adaptation Draw on Victoria’s too easily overlooked history of leading the world, and our considerable natural advantages, to formulate a game-changing world-inspiring path towards ecological regeneration with affirmative human roles as a custodial species, drawing on our rich natural tapestry and the best of technologies across our diversity of local circumstances and pre- and post-colonial histories. 8. Changing timescales across southern Port Phillip 9. The most richly endowed state of neglect
- 32. Recommendation 6: Legislating and Regulating Commercial Incentives Recognise that human assets tend to be ecological liabilities and that facilitating ecosystem regeneration has become more urgent than asset accumulation, developing regulatory models with commercial incentives that encourage priority redirection, aiming for cultural renaissance in which Victorians work within rather than against Life and its substrates. 10. Business models thriving on wilful ignorance 10.1 Arborists murdering healthy trees 10.2 GeoTech scraping Life from rocks 10.3 Planners paid to allow development
- 37. Friends of Sydenham Park invited to inspect bank of Maribyrnong opposite Melbourne Airport by strategic Green Wedge landholder whose property is currently on the market
- 38. Maribyrnong-Sunbury Green Wedge Tony Smith Friends of Maribyrnong Valley 2 December 2020 The closest Green Wedge Zone to the Melbourne GPO is 193 Milburn Road which neighbours Caroline Chisholm
- 39. Straw-necked Ibis and Silver Gull breeding colony Mud Island 23 November 2019 Kororoit Institute submission to Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee Inquiry, February 2021 Time and Space to Adapt Reversing Ecosystem Decline in Victoria