Re: What's happened in Q/land looks truly horrendous. Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on February 26, 2019, 7:04 pm, in reply to "What's happened in Q/land looks truly horrendous. "
Apocolyptic scenes. Australia might well become one of worse affected countries by climate change as so much of the land is marginal in any case, it won't take a lot of climate change to shift marginal to unworkable. The problem seems to be the underlying settler and inappropriate western philosophy of fighting nature to "progress" agriculture instead of working with it. Australia must be an example of this destructive philosophy at its most striking. (See https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals https://www.wwf.org.au/news/news/2017/new-dramatic-escalation-in-tree-clearing-in-queensland-shows-why-stronger-laws-must-be-passed?gclid=Cj0KCQiA5NPjBRDDARIsAM9X1GLndQ4XK9VaaGi6v-Eg55YeeMAAKryQBG5uJypmn4l9wDJG-cRMGnQaAn1SEALw_wcB#gs.ZhJkGFjY or https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/04/queensland-passes-land-clearing-laws-after-gruelling-three-day-debate in which it stated by farming lobbyists, as a mantra, "farmers are the custodians of the land" when thought of any restrictions on clearing land or protecting the environment are promoted. Exactly equivalent to the mantra "fishermen are the custodians of the seas" when some restrictions are formulated for their industry) Large herds of grazing animals are ruining the land .. I wonder how many billions of trees were cut down, burned or cleared to make this bare landscape so we could grow cows? I wonder how many millions of tonnes of topsoil would have washed away into the ocean with this event, and how many millions of tonnes blown away with the prolonged drought? As mentioned in the recent postings, Bill Morrison's watchword was "without trees we cannot inhabit the Earth" This land needs massive remediation and tree planting and the animals have to go. We don't need them anyway. Nature is trying to tell us something urgent, but there's none so deaf as those who will not listen. There appears to be no rational self-examination of these wider issues - as quoted by one farmer "there will be tears, there will be break downs, there will be so much pain. But we will get up, we will carry on, we will come out the other side of this, and we will have an excellent grass season for the surviving livestock.” Dear farmer, what is there is no "other side"? I think humanity's greatest failing is the sin of greed, the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. Almost everything that goes wrong in our societies can be distilled to this failing.
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