fire – nomdeplume

What’s past

December 7, 2022January 8, 2023 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, evolution, History, literature, media, poetry, politics, science

… 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

Also many of my older essays are still available here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/david-horton/28320

I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire

December 4, 2022 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, History, media, science

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.

Home fires

November 29, 2022 by David Horton, posted in atheism, climate change, ecology, evolution, farm, History, media, science

“Cultural

burning” is to

ecology as

creationism

is to

evolution

Seasons

June 7, 2020 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, gardens, History, poetry

Plumes of smoke

on a cold

Winter’s day

bring thoughts

of warmth and

community

and human

busyness and

achievement.

Plumes of smoke

on a hot

Summer’s day

bring thoughts

of destruction

and terror

and loss and

anger and

failure.

Darkness at noon

January 5, 2020 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, History, poetry

The fog

of war,

the smoke

of climate

change

Value of nothing

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, guns, History, poetry, politics, tax

Politicians

and journalists

always demand to

know, and then

reject, the cost of

measures to conserve

the environment.

But neither ever

ask the cost

of war.

An app by any other name

December 8, 2019 by David Horton, posted in Bon mots, poetry

I have an

“Anxiety

App” that

generates

anxiety.

It’s also

called

“Fires near me”

The drumbeat of hooves

December 5, 2019 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, gardens, History, poetry

Every morning

I awake wondering

if this is the day

a million red

horses of the

apocalypse

will come galloping

over the western hills.

My way or the highway

November 21, 2019 by David Horton, posted in atheism, climate change, evolution, guns, History, literature, poetry, politics, science

All of us,

really,

have one track

minds.

Some of us,

though,

are happy to

explore

side tracks,

exit signs,

underpasses,

overpasses,

lay-bys,

and alternate

scenic routes.

And some of

us aren’t.

Ashes

November 17, 2019November 17, 2019 by David Horton, posted in climate change, ecology, History, poetry

The ashes of

koalas are

blackening

the beaches of

Australia

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