Search Results: extinction
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Stephen Wright
- 30 September 2009
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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
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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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ENVIRONMENT
- Les Coleman
- 21 August 2008
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This week's ABC TV Australian Story featured property magnate Bill McHarg, who walked away from his job to fight John Howard's inaction on climate change. Research suggests he is a rarity, with most white males with good education and high income downplaying the risk of climate change.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mountains and hills! Men bore, quarry and scalp them .. Fruit trees and cedars! Men spray them and clearfell them .. Beasts and cattle! Men extinguish or factory-farm them .. Creeping things and flying birds! Men wipe them out also.
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ENVIRONMENT
One of the most devastating effects of European settlement upon Aboriginal people was caused by fencing. Fences have also disrupted normal behaviour of kangaroos, which have come to be regarded as enemies by landowners.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 March 2008
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Camus' plague was a metaphor for the Second World War German occupation of France. Our plague is no metaphor. It's the truth of the planet's advancing impatience with its reckless colonisers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 February 2008
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This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Pierce
- 22 August 2007
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Future Perfect is ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams' sketch of much that imperils the human future. Whatever flaws and fancies there may have been in God's blueprint, Williams does surprisingly little to produce projections of his own.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 27 June 2007
A strong theme of 20th century philosophy and social science is humans as 'dialogical' beings. Our sense of self is defined only in relationship with others, and the other is understood on his or her own terms. But in recent years, this view of the world has been contested.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Sean McDonagh
- 17 May 2007
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Sean McDonagh is a Columban missionary priest who is the author of several books. Originally from North Tipperary, he now resides at Dalgan Park, Navan, Co Meath in Ireland.
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