its about time we looked at the indigenous attitude towards the land and leave no footprints of where we have been.
Get a grip Dookey!
You mean set the place alight as their version of precooked take-away?? They burnt your precious trees so they wouldn't have to chase a Wallaby for Sunday lunch. They preferred to sit and wait for them to come fleeing the flames or else wander in and pick up the cooked ones when the ground cooled off.
This country had a far greater variety of useful vegetation before their 'stewardship' was inflicted on it.
What we have now, i.e., a 3 million square mile tinderbox, is because we are left with only plants which could survive, or regenerate from, fires.
It's why we have deserts, and if there had been more of them we'd be Easter bloody Island!
The myth of the Kooris being sainted environmentalists was started from the viewpoint of how OZ was 2 centuries ago when civilization found it. It was good practice then, and now, to burn off regularly... but.... only because that is the 'environment' that
they had forced it to evolve into thousands of years before.
Maybe if they'd gotten off their bums and chased those wallabies they'd have had an easier life in their later generations. Hell they might even have had enough food from those trees that were exterminated by their fire stick 'technology' to have been capable of forming their own civilization. They had 40,000 years to build one, they should have been invading England not the other way round.
They love trees so much they kill them to dig a single grub out of one. They ringbark a dozen to get one piece of usable bark to scribble and dot patterns on or to make a coolabah because it's easier than weaving a bag.
...So don't give me that claptrap about the Kooris. They were survivalists, not environmentalists.
Next.
So, how many electric cars have you got and what do you use to recharge them? And how did you afford them on your pension??
How many windmill generators do you have on your patch or are you totally self sufficient from a solar panel on the roof?
How much did it cost?
How much did the carbon emissions that China used in manufacturing it weigh??
Your environmentally sweet solar panel is what made Beijing smoggy.
The coal we ship is going to nations who can't afford to pay their equivalent of 20 years wages for a solar panel on the roof of their shanties to boil water for a cuppa, or to run a stove to cook their dinner on.
Greenpeace and their cronies want to stop them having relatively cheap coal without giving a thought to what they are expected to replace it with. NOW.
Maybe in the far future the world will be the Utopia that Greenies imagine, but it isn't NOW.
I know that you are for the common man, for helping the deprived, and that your heart is a good one, with good intentions for all mankind. But your head needs to have a yarn to it every now and then.
Wishing things were better won't make them so. Protesting about them without any viable alternative is worse than useless. It gives people the impression that someone is doing 'good' when all they are doing is raising false hopes for the wrong reasons. They are focusing the blame in the wrong direction and that isn't going to fix anything.
Ignoring the
why of things being as they are is the reason so many stuff ups are made in trying to fix them.
Sure rich people run mines and oil companies. Why are they getting rich from it? Because we pay them for their product.
Want to stop them having a strangle-hold on the world? Walk. Eat cold uncooked food you've grown yourself, and 'freeze in the dark.' Simple.
Or build a few nuke power plants and put the coal miners out of business, but then you'd whinge about coal miners losing their jobs right?
Does it ever occur to you that it may very well be the big-oil and mining magnates who are secretly driving the terror of nuclear energy? Nuke is their biggest competition. It is their nightmare.
Do they fund those fence scaling Greenpeace and Get-up protestors at Nuclear Plants?
I would if I was one!
Is Greenpeace against nuclear energy to 'save the planet', or to keep up their donation quotas?
But then I'm just a cynical and devious old battle axe so wadda I know?
Countries overseas are building nukes and getting power to their outlying villages, we are the only ones still too thick to see the benefits. We'd rather prance about carrying banners and crying about saving whales, trees, and the whole bloody planet. Tell that to people surviving meal by meal, it's really easy to do it from here. We still use our own coal.
If flicking a few bucks to Get-up and their likes is your idea of a sufficient gesture toward saving the planet and salving your conscience then all I can say is that you are selling your conscience cheap.
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[Relax folks, we two had a half hour phone chat this morning, we're old friends playing word games for the fun of it.]
