Search Results: extinction
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AUSTRALIA
- Donna Mulhearn
- 20 March 2013
9 Comments
I sat with my Iraqi friend in his photo store. I was his last customer, he said; the bombs would begin tomorrow. And then he began to weep. I remember thinking that his life, and the lives of others like him, would not be given a second's thought once the invasion started. The next day, the bombs began.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 15 February 2013
15 Comments
Whenever I spot that lithe mottled feral cat lurking behind our pumpkins, I have to fight bipolar urges. The kitty-lover in me wants to lure it in with milk and sardines, then trap it into a co-dependent relationship. My other urge is the environmentally responsible one: to take it to the vet and have it put down.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 14 December 2012
15 Comments
Kiribati, situated in the central Pacific Ocean and home to 101,998 people — more than half of them Catholic — will be the first country to be drowned by global warming. While we wring our hands and climate sceptics pretend there is no problem, on Kiribati people are already in the midst of a climate change disaster.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 August 2012
6 Comments
Like a uniformed and undirected army, they queued end to end, an implacable wall of yellow and green. The trams seemed to squat somehow lower on their shiny rails — and all their lights went out. For more than a month they paralysed the city and everyone could see the government had entered its last days.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins
- 06 March 2012
5 Comments
With fresh blood in your mouth you are no longer cat, house-trained to please. Now you kill wantonly, revel in the fear you invoke in others. Man was created, just like you, to run free in the killing-fields ... Is this what God meant you to be? To revert to what you once were?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 November 2011
8 Comments
The remote community of Toomelah was a state-run Aboriginal mission with a strong church presence. A raft of social problems have emerged in place of the traditional culture that was usurped by these influences. Cultural extinction is perhaps the biggest issue facing such communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 August 2010
1 Comment
For all our modern sophistication, refinement and technology, we remain in imaginative thrall to one of the most venerable and terrifying of folk figures. The vampire combines two of human kind's profoundly obsessive preoccupations: mortality and sex.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Jeffrey Nicholls
- 09 July 2010
3 Comments
Every year we mine about a billion tonnes of iron ore. If we keep this
up for five billion years, we will have dug up the whole earth to a
depth of about 10 km. Here is a guide to how human existence might continue until the sun dies.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Sarah Burnside
- 29 October 2009
7 Comments
Australia's decision to reduce its intake of the endangered southern bluefin tuna has outraged the industry. The global fishing industry is unsustainable, and fishing is second only to climate change as
the greatest environmental threat to marine ecosystems.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Stephen Wright
- 30 September 2009
6 Comments
We are terrible at caring for the planet because we are terrible at caring for each other. And we are lousy at caring for each other because we don't seem to have any idea of where the roots of human emotional sustenance lie. We might begin to look at our obsessive love of money and power.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Peter D. Burdon
- 29 June 2009
2 Comments
The law does not protect the natural world from destruction, but
supports its destruction. The effect of regulation is that if a company
ticks the right boxes and stays within the prescribed
boundaries, its activity is acceptable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Australia leads the world
in mammalian extinction and in threatened species. The rag-tag group of contributors to Boom & Bust provide a timely scientific reminder that the fate
of birds is inextricably tied to our own.
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