A reminder that my previous book, published nearly a quarter of a century ago, but still with it, and rather nicely written, is available from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/The-Pure-State-of-Nature-Sacred-cows-destructive-myths-and-the-environment/Horton/p/book/9781865081076
My memoir now available as an ebook from Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/hammering-on-the-mind-s-door-david-horton/ebook/9781761096297.html
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Has it always been the case that half the human race are as nutty as fruit cakes?
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You know what kills whales? Naval sonar. Seismic testing on the sea floor. Oil drilling in the ocean. Warming seas. Reduction of krill and other whale food. Oil spills from tankers and rigs. Collisions with ships and boats. Pollution. Shark nets and abandoned gill nets. You know what doesn\’t kill whales? Offshore wind farms.
Don\’t think my brook will be babbling, or even whispering, when the next fearful Summer is here.
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There is now a real world occupied by those of us who believe in science, logic, facts, analysis, rational thought, democracy, humanism; and there is now a parallel world occupied by right wing ideologues, religious fundamentalists, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, libertarians, neofascists, incels, anti-abortionists, home schoolers, racists, nuclear power boosters, UFO believers, conspiracy theorists, misogynists,
… is prologue. My book concerning fire in the Australian environment, extinction of the megafauna, and Indigenous interaction with the environment in general (and in total opposition to the works of Flannery, Pascoe and Gammage, among others), is available online. https://www.routledge.com/The-Pure-State-of-Nature-Sacred-cows-destructive-myths-and-the-environment/Horton/p/book/9781865081076 All my individual publications in this field (and others) are available free online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Horton9
To say that Australian plants are adapted to fire (and flood, and storm, and landslide) is like saying that grass is adapted to lawnmowers. Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 8:28 pm – view South from my window, horrific smoke from major bushfires in the mountains of southern NSW.
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