Why does the US military want to tear up this extraordinary, this gorgeous Tasmanian rainforest?
Takina is a rainforest in western part of Tasmania, which is home to Tasmanian devils, to wedge tailed eagles, to critically endangered ecosystems. And you can just feel the beauty of this place and and feel what a precious part of the planet it is. But Takina also under the ground has tungsten, a diamond hard metal that the US military wants for its weapons. Tungsten’s used in the F-35 fighter jet program, but it’s also used in missiles by both the US military and the Israeli military. And what it does is when the missile punches through the concrete or it punches through the defence, it gets into a space and they release this cloud of tungsten shrapnel which kills every living thing. Doctors in Gaza when they look at the X-rays, they’ll see a pinhole on one side of a bone and a pinhole on the other. And what drove through that body, what drove through that bone was tungsten shrapnel. And that’s why the US military is looking here in Tasmania.
Critica Limited is looking to mine this place on behalf of the US military. They’ve joined this thing called the Defence Industrial Base Consortium, not run by our defence department, but run by the US Department of War to extract the tungsten out of here and feed it into the US war machine.
And what’s doubly criminal about this is that our government wants this to happen. is promoting this kind of extraction. I don’t know about you, but when I look around here, I I see life. I see hope. I see this incredibly interconnected planet that we have. How is any government, how is any corporation coming here and extracting it for ways to kill? We need to end this project and we need to separate ourselves from the US military. I can’t imagine what is wrong with people who come to a beautiful place like this and want to rip it apart to feed these merchants of death and to feed the weapons that are going to tear apart life .