J. Junk mail and trees. ABC Wednesday.

Sometimes I just can’t believe the amount of junk mail we get. It makes me feel jaundiced to think of the vast numbers of trees that have been felled to create this jaunty looking bin filler.  Most of it's for stuff we don't need either, not now, maybe never. Some of my friends feel jittery if they don't shop for a day or two! By jove, that's a head scratcher isn't it.

from Wikimedia Commons

Jenny thought I was jesting when I showed her a photo I’d taken of the clear felling not far from Jindabyne. It’s home to the endangered Leadbeater’s Possum, Victoria’s faunal emblem. She thought I’d hit the jackpot and said she was jealous that I’d been able to get into the High Plains and see it with my own eyes! Really! I just felt jangled, as if someone had jabbed me in the heart; justifiably I think. Thank goodness they weren’t jarrah trees, though I hear they are in jeopardy and being jettisoned injudiciously just to make paper to advertise junk. There's so much jiggery-pokery going on, it's hard to join the dots and make sense of it all.

By jingo! Sometimes I get so angry I could go for the jugular of … I’m not sure who … but I’m sure I‘d end up in jail, without a jelly bean or jug of juniper juice and definitely no jukebox playing jazz. (Does one drink juniper juice? Perhaps that should read mint julep?)

Clear felling is happening in the jungles as well, some people say this is ‘progress’ and is justified, but at this juncture I think it would be wise to allow the juvenile trees to regenerate rather than be a jumble of logs. It’s all to do with biodiversity which is vital for out longevity.

We need to juggle the needs of the inhabitants and ethical stakeholders judiciously (but jettison those who act without integrity) or we won’t be jubilant at many more jubilees.

Joy will have gone. It gives me the jitters.

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*This post on J is a work of fiction based on fact.
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