We must assess 'cumulative impacts' to protect nature from death by a thousand cuts
- Written by: Rebecca Louise Nelson, Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne
Cam Laird/ShutterstockAustralia’s national environment protection law ignores the big picture. Like a racehorse wearing blinkers, decision-makers focus on a single project in isolation. If they dropped the blinkers and considered the combined effects of multiple projects, they might shy away from allowing so many harmful impacts.
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