Yet more Queensland floods. Third time in about a year for some towns? Was struck by one farmer’s comment – “I’ve lived beside this creek for 65 years, but I have never heard anything like the frightening roar of the water last night”. The roar would clearly stick in his mind the rest of his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
Give the order
Posted in Climate Change, Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, conservation, environment, global warming, history, king canute, monarchy, Sarah Palin, tony abbott on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You all remember Old King Canute taking his throne down to the beach, right – “Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet “continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal [...]
Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
Where the pine-clad ridges raise
Posted in Environment, Media, tagged australia, Cattle in high country, conservation, ecology, environment, man from snowy river, mountain cattlemen, nsw politics, science, Snowy river, television on January 15, 2012 | 9 Comments »
This morning (15 January 2012) I experienced an unpleasant sense of deja vu as Australia’s tv channel 7 ran a propaganda piece for the so-called “mountain cattlemen” who are battling the federal government to once again allow their cattle to smash up the national parks of the high country. The new conservative Vic state government [...]
Gaiathan
Posted in Environment, tagged Climate Change, conservation, ecology, environment, farms, health, leviathan 1651, thomas hobbes on December 13, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The idea of the human body as metaphor is not new. Thomas Hobbes in “Leviathan” (1651) invented an ideal commonwealth “ruled by a sovereign power responsible for protecting the security of the commonwealth and granted absolute authority to ensure the common defense. In his introduction, Hobbes describes this commonwealth as an “artificial person” and as [...]
Dig for victory
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, tagged australia, Climate Change, conservation, farms, gardening, GM food, health, MDBA, Murray-Darling, vegetables on December 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In world war two the British had a slogan “dig for victory”. It was aimed at getting people growing their own food and all over the country lawns were ripped up, roses removed, and potatoes and other vegetables planted. The logic was that Britain was involved in the “Battle of the Atlantic” where German U [...]
Icebergs ahead
Posted in Economics, Environment, politics, tagged Alzheimers, conservation, ecology, health, New Zealand, oil spill on October 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The other day a container ship ran aground north of New Zealand. Have to be specific because these events happen over and over. As do the scenes of people trying to clean beaches of toxic oil, wash living seabirds and bury dead ones. As do the unseen scenes on the rocks and under the waves, [...]
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