There is a point of view that seems to say that bamboo has no place in Australian or Tasmanian forestry. It is an understanding that is rooted in Australia's colonial histories and the exploitive Eurocentric export paradigm that underpinned forestry practices until recently when forest exploitation became increasingly unsustainable.
Given the need for change in forestry management, and given that it is now said that Tasmania is a net importer of timber, the increasing focus on bamboo has much to offer looking ahead. Bamboo being fast growing, an exemplary sequester of carbon and a prodigious producer of oxygen it is hard to ignore its potential. Interestingly, no mattter where bamboo is grown in the world it is an important mitigator in the climate management paradigm. It matters not where the plant grows because wherever it is, it will be sequestering carbon and emitting oxygen. Nonetheless, there is a multitude of reasons for growing bamboo in Tasmania not the least of them being that every part of harvested bamboo has utility.
In order to bring about a MINDset change it is clear that the status quo needs to be disrupted. This is true of understandings, 21st C understandings, relevant to technology, materiality, resource recovery, social media and marketing.
The ego might resist change until the level of discomfort becomes unbearable. Employing logic to overcome the ego’s defence mechanism to integrate revisions in obsolete beliefs and understandings can work. The subtle sense that something is amiss can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in conscious thoughts and outlooks. Resisting change typically prolongs distress whereas implementing change can establish harmony and wellbeing.
While shifting mindsets is often daunting in the face of the worlds climate emergency and geopolitical realignments, if humanity is to survive change is an imperative.
There are four imperatives governing human behaviours. The first is securing the life sustainers – oxygen, water food. The next is to identify within the group – relationships and rank. After that humans, as do all animals, need to underpin 'survival' by procreating – genetically and ideologically. And finally the need to secure and welcoming safe place to live – a home.
Wherever bamboo grows its 'materiality' offers a sustainable food source. Likewise, bamboo offer great utility in providing housing and humanity's domstic needs. Bamboo's utilty is peerless and especialy in contract to the consequences of the world's mined resources all too many of which come with environmental hazzrds.
“If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance. choices affect nature and us in every way and all the time. Thus humanity's aspirations to maintain the status quo puts our CULTURALlandscapes in peril and thus our unborn grandchildren's grandchildren cultural wellbeing as well. |
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