Wild Sovereign Development Site

Tag: ecology

  • global weirding

    Yesterday I accompanied a friend to a medical specialist who has been urging invasive and ill-tested procedures, saying, “Don’t you want to go with the science?” We were talking about the weather, to cover an uncomfortable examination. The doctor pointed out that in Europe it has actually been colder lately. He said, “So much for global warming. I mean, are you into that?”

  • palace of wasted

    The number of times I have been sitting in some cafe and have said to the staff or even the owners, Gee, guys. Since you have all of this organic stuff and social justice ideology going on…. wouldn’t it be great to provide actual glasses instead of plastic cups at your water station? Imagine if you even maybe offered people a little discount for bringing their own containers for a takeaway? Or: Don’t you reckon your local cash and carry would get in corn-starch takeaway cups if you asked them? They’re easily available. The number of times owners and staff have said, Gee, yes. That is a really great idea. We should do that. The number of times they have actually acted on it. The number of disposable everythings sprouting from the council bins outside each venue. Are we doomed purely by our own selfishness? And not just us but every living thing bar certain bacteria and fungi and cockroaches?

  • what’s mined is ours

    I think mining is a really primitive way of making a living. You gouge it out of the earth and you ship it away. It can never be sustainable: unlike a forest, where you can say “Well, we plant two trees for every one cut and we leave behind the nests and the habitats, we use the forest for eco-tours and to teach about local Indigenous culture.” Once it’s mined it’s gone, it can never grow back: the uranium, ore, oil or copper and the mountaintop as well. We call them ‘mines’ when really they are ‘ourses’ or even ‘earth’s’. Australian Conservation Foundation point out the mines in Western Australia make close to a billion dollars profit a week taking minerals “they didn’t make, out of land they don’t own.” Mining turns irreplaceable materials into disposable products; it fuels industries which have not caught up with the parlous state of the poisoned world; it’s a primitive, dangerous occupation and I think it attracts primitive, dangerous people.