Re: stephen Corry: 'Pristine Wildernesses and Other Myths Peddled by the BBC' Archived Message
Posted by dereklane on March 2, 2019, 8:40 am, in reply to "Re: stephen Corry: 'Pristine Wildernesses and Other Myths Peddled by the BBC'"
Reminds me of queensland's national parks, marketed as pristine too, despite the quick fading aboriginal art that shows how recent the indigenous people were forced out (aboriginal rock art needs maintenance). I imagine it's an indicator for the whole landscape but I didn't see these places 50 plus years back to compare. I know in the area I grew up, what remains of the (in my memory) vast bush land is now thick, overgrown, impenetrable to the larger marsupials let alone people, compared to even as a child when it was described scientifically as open dry sclerophyl forest, more ground than vegetation to push through, if you know what I mean..That was down to management and by all scientific accounts wad considered natural, describing the necessary environments for many flora and fauna across the country. In other words, humans are part of the natural environment. I believe the trouble is that old beast colonialism and it's close friend western enlightenment. We think we know best, but remain largely ignorant of environs we have need had to live in so we box them off and declare everyone else but us the problem. (Thinking about those Diego garcians too being locked out o lf their homelands with lofty uk declarations of the region being a marine conservation park). Nature needs the people it needs, it just doesn't need humans who are estranged from the natural environment (most westerners I guess!).
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