Across the nation ,the world , marches are being held to drive home to the politicians that the Paris talks must really come to grips with the greatest threat to survival of the planet .The march taking place in Townsville comes at a time when it has been revealed that large parts of the north are being clear-felled under approvals given in the last moments of the Campbell Newman government , but allowed to continue because of legal manoeuvres and what appears to be timidity on behalf of the Queensland government. Massive , corrupt , logging in PNG is devastating the environment as it is in other parts of the Pacific . Add to this the huge fires burning in Indonesia which blanketed a large part of South East Asia and the picture is grim in our region .
