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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There was a time I could sit in the town square at midday and see, passing by, my contemporaries, going about their lives, knowing they, we, were the generation creating the world around us. These days I see no one I know and the world has moved on to those of a new generation, leaving
Christopher Robin went down with Alice Read More »
Every time an expert suggests the slightest change to the way things are done which will benefit the environment or improve the lives of people it will be immediately resisted by business, farming and religious leaders, whose resistance to change will be praised and supported by the Murdoch media and then by right wing politicians,
\”An odd thought strikes me:—we shall receive no letters in the grave\” (Samuel Johnson) It strikes me that there will be books written, music performed, art created, films directed, science discovered – that I will never know about.
An odd thought strikes me… Read More »
Everybody has a hobby horse, all that differs is how hard and how far it is ridden.
Horse with many names Read More »
All the good businessmen are going to destroy the planet.
It\’s just business Read More »
Racism Misogyny Neoconservatism Religion Ideology Homeopathy Iridology Acupuncture Fascism Creationism Science …is not like the others…
One of these things… Read More »
USA was once an amalgam of Thomas Jefferson\’s America, and of Abraham Lincoln\’s America, and of John F Kennedy\’s America. USA is becoming an amalgam of Adolf Hitler\’s Germany, and the Taliban\’s Afghanistan, and of Atwood\’s Gilead
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