Discuss: Pulverized

This article needs photos!!! Nothing wrenches one more than seeing these ancient artifacts.  Are there no photos of them?

Let’s not get so carried away.  The environmental world is where it is today because we have not elected the people who care about our planet to do the work in Congress and our state and city governments.  Now we must get out there and let them know that we want wind and solar at 20% of our power usage by 2030.  Read the DOE’s article on this.  Google 20% Wind and Solar by 2030 by the DOE (Dept. of Energy)  Surprised?  I sure was!  If the DOE thinks we can do it, then I KNOW we can!  Read the article and spread the word!!!

This is very disturbing to learn of! IS there some campaign we can connect to to help fight this destruction?  I hope orion scan send this info out to its e list as I do not usually go back to blogs for info

Author Jay Griffiths passed along these links for those who want more information about the situation on the Burrup Peninsula:

http://www.standupfortheburrup.com

http://www.burrup.org.au

http://www.wmf.org (the world monuments fund website)

She added that “people could also try also looking at the efforts of the Green Party in Australia to raise the issue.”

Ah, we humans cannot seem to avoid breaking up the furniture for firewood.  When will we learn that the record of life is more important than out momentary need to exploit the earth and destroy the natural history along with it?  Perhaps global warming and diminishing fossil fuels will get our attention.  Its obvious that we seem blind to other evidence of our plunder.

From ‘getup.org’ site:
“Even as you read this, Woodside Petroleum is bulldozing priceless rock carvings in a small area excluded from the [heritage] listing. This is for a new gas plant that could have been re-negotiated to already destroyed land only 500m away from the current site - a wasted opportunity by Minister Turnbull.

Speak up now and we will take your message to the international and national corporate and government parties affecting the future of this unique site. Call for an ongoing solution that puts industry profits back into protecting the little that remains of our Indigenous heritage for future Australian generations. Sign the petition.”
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveOurHeritage&id=19

This article clearly delineates between two cultural perspectives: one that is rooted in the land and sees the land as a living entity, numinous, and life-giving; the other which sees the land a mere commodity, a resource, a piece of property to be disposed of as the powers that be see fit.  Similarly, one culture sees larger implications of causing harm and not living in balance;  the other laughs off savage superstition and assumes humankind is the meaning of the earth.  One culture can thrive for well over 30,000 years, while the other fouls the nest in a few generations.  The solution is beyond enforcement of the law or the creation of yet another commission; we need a cultural revival, a reconnection with the land and an elevation of the land (writ large) to its proper place in our view of the cosmos.  Until then, stories like this will continue to be the norm.

It’s called change.  Get over it. 

For someone that doesn’t like boundaries, it would seem that trying to enforce them would be a rather hypocritical endeavour.  Just the type of muddy thinking and intellectual laziness we can all do without.