Economic Ecologists Defence Association

Most of the growing budget in handouts for conservation purposes is not only unsustainable, its not right , Our taxes badly used.
The big budget should be going to provide jobs for our young people in helping better manage and plan land water and plant use. Instead of that its being eaten up in tokenistic grants and advice and action that's not only skin deep but also often not appropriate in the site
Take the current inducements - bulbs, panels and insulation --- cost the earth but every one loves em
We as a culture will be judged as overly self focused rich token generation conservationists who pay ourselves for being good. 
Everybody is going to church singing the right choruses about what they put in the plate ,but ignoring the big real world problems outside .

Inducement theory and practice is totally out of control in Australia.
-we MUST stop giving carte blanche to this simple attractive idea - we can't motivate people with money to have the right attitude ( critical aim )Sure we can get them to do things , but in a rich country like ours they should just do them mostly out of their own pocket .
Inducements ARE a huge problem because its far too popular an idea with polys and Ps's who if you really think about it ---love to spend our money on them . The popularity of the simple is very easy to understand with polys .
Much of your taxes already goes on them instead of towards educated countercultural moves like it used to . Education is now dismissed for direct action which is can be impossible to achieve as real conservation requires place driven consensus .
Inducements are already blowing the budget on these measures which like insulation also attempt to reward the unmotivated .
We should be inspiring people with the idea, not trying to always drag them into it . Modern market motivational theory has a low view of humans , not the high one we once accepted . This view ,in my view, is inspirational.
Inducements also reward token efforts and this focus on the superficial can push all the hard basket items off the agenda . Now that the public have taken the conservation agenda off those who study it we find " everyone is happy they are doing a good job "

RIGHT
Everybody is going to church singing the right choruses but ignoring the big real world problems outside .
WRONG
WHY the CONFUSION
So why do our leaders deviate from true market driven progress practice on this ? Its because they like the idea of power over people and they read books that tell them they can have it this other way . The poorly educated and unprofessional decisionmakers on this take the sociologist Shoemaker's concept of the "laggard "as an excuse for what they falsely see as "inducing progress "-Sorry they/we are not that clever.
Even the proper use of "laggard" in technological adoption is disputed amongst those who practice . I would dispute it often because in ecosystems the big picture can overide the blimp of a mere technological innovation ( to which the theory might apply)

Conservation that Works is a deeply countercultural process that needs constant reinforcement to work well - its a bit like faith, where you need to keep going back each week to be reminded why the TV is wrong about blatant consumption. Education and its inspirational elements are the primary requirement . Coercion: even economic coercion is unsustainable
Conservation that Works is a way of thinking ( eg longterm Vs shortterm) that is not necessarily costly ( eg in long term for everyone it pays ) but if not run as counterculture, it can be just very expensive trinkets and token efforts -

Modelled as it often is now only in purely mechanistic and market terms it lumbers along and will eventual drain taxpayers of any incentive to do it . The TRUMP card is out there and will be played - whether we like it or not. There is too much BS talk
Great evil can and is being done in the good intention of environment and the sus name of market and demand pressures .We live in a culture of blinkered and hypocritical views.

If you don't see this yet I am not surprised Most people don't.,We all desperately want to think we are doing the right thing by the environment. the good thing is that many are trying I am saying we must work smarter not sacrifice too simply as the world is a resilience haven for the careful
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Why I labor on this point is because of very serious matters that should concern us all .
First, conservation can work (and be +ve fun ) but it must be practiced properly . To do this we need to accept denial , dismiss the superficial and insist on dedicated discipleship on the ground. You can't see the positives unless you study all sides .
Secondly, to maintain the educational component of sound teaching on conservation theory and practice our young people should be working in this area - instead of that , the money that used to be going that way is being used on handouts to our generation . its wrong
History will show that the growing budgeting problem with inducements is because they are far too popular with polys and build big government - have to have accountability departments . we are self perpetuating the red tape problems.
Take the insulation and solar panel lights question , Peter Garrett fortunately saw the problem with it getting out of hand and so should we ! .
Please ask Q or put your point. We as a culture will be judged as overly self focused rich token generation conservationists who pay ourselves for being good.
Motivating others to do the right thing with our money has got knobs on it .Study to show yourselves approved.,,,,OR shutup and ,,,,