Guest post by Alec Rawls
A venerable Aussie art gallery has gone over to the eco-propaganda dark side. An exhibition for children at the Ballarat depicts mankind’s impending and well-deserved doom. In the illustration above, post-apocalyptic kangaroo, elk and wolf have “come for what’s ours,” narrated with the caption:
In this vision we have poisoned our environment with toxic waste and used up all the natural resources until the earth could no longer support us… In this painting, people are just a memory. The earth has survived and with it some of the plants and animals which lived in harmony with nature, only taking what they needed and adapting…
The poor wolf has apparently had to adapt to eating eucalyptus. Even wild animals are not eco-enough for the eco-religionists.
Check out how hot the outback was in this 1890 painting by David Davies. What better way to illustrate that “Australia is getting hotter and climate change has arrived”?
This — cough cough — turkey might be a little — urk — overcooked. Hope yours is better!
(Hat tip Andrew Bolt)
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A modern day Hieronymus Bosch.
Interesting they think animals take “only what they need”, they’ve never seen what a fox does in a hen house I take it?
Religious zealots are everywhere these days. And promoting so many pop religions, too.
I don’t remember it always being so.
Not only are there vegetarian wolves, but – given that people are just a memory – some of the other animals have evolved to operate and maintain lighthouses.
Or a bear in a salmon run.
How is the lighthouse kept lit with no humans around?
I’m cheating as I read about this a couple of days ago somewhere on the Intertubes 🙂
If I came across this in a public gallery, I would probably rip up the silly, propagandick ( a word I just made up) signs. I wouldn’t touch the art work though.
I’m offended! I, for one, only take what I need. & right now I need some more turkey. Oh, & some of that roast goose, a couple more slices of ham, yes! those mashed potatoes will fit nicely next to the collard greens, oh I should also grab four or five more rolls while I’m thinking about it.
I find it interesting that all the paintings, bar one, are from the late 19th century.
Climate Disasters were a big problem then, I guess.
Richard Evans says:
November 22, 2012 at 9:07 am
Neither have they ever bothered to watch any of the myriad of “real” nature programmes from the 80s/early 90s showing nature red in tooth & claw, nary a mention of global warming. Nature is brutal & savage, survival is base upon that if the fittiest, & more importantly, the most ruthless & cunning! To enlighten those who may not know, if you have 10 chickens in a roost/hen house, & a fox gets in to take a chicken for its cubs, how many chickens do you have left? Answer = 9………….ALL DEAD! The fox kills for sport!!!! A wild cat might only eat what it needs to sustain itself for a day or two, lions will hunt in a pride using teamwork curiously. Pack animals like wolves/hyenas, & the like, will hunt in packs again using teamwork & gorge themsleves on the kill until little is left for the vultures, as they do not know when the next meal is coming from until they hunt is down & kill it! sadly it is a said state of affairs when evn with what may appear to be the most innoccuous of tv progs, they will slip AGW into somewhere, my wife gets quite vexatious with me every time she decides we’re going to watch a nature programme, she is adamant that it is just about this or that natural occurrence, & I throw into the mix that I’ll give it “20 minutes” before AGW rears its ugly face & sadly I am usualy right although I admit the timing is often off!
I remember reading that there is a natural tendency for phosphorus, essential for all life, to become depleted. Its compounds tend to be heavy and insoluble and therefore leach away. So, all those animals and plants that use up this natural resource without thinking about its conservation are going to die out anyway without our help. Of course, a sufficiently intelligent technological lifeform might be able to harvest and return the phosphorus to the ecosystem. Without its help, everything is doomed.
On the left, is that a mutant cat, or a cat kangaroo hybrid?
Richard Evans says:
November 22, 2012 at 9:07 am
Interesting they think animals take “only what they need”, they’ve never seen what a fox does in a hen house I take it?
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Or coyotes do to a sheep or goat herd.
As far as I am concerned this art gallery is 60 years too late for Australia. It is also on the wrong continent. If they want to do this show today they need to move to China.
We were doomed in the 60s, doomed in the 70s, again in the 80s, even more so in the 90s, of course the millenium was going to be an epic doom but when that failed we moved to an apocalyptic doom for 2012. Can anyone see a pattern here?
We seem to have brought up a generation of doom mongers, whiners and whingers.
(Have you all noticed that they all look like a certain Mannbloke?)
A simple solution, ‘GET OVER YOURSELVES!’
Ah, that’s better…
Yes, animals have been living in harmony with nature for millions of years, regularly over populating their habitats, suffering massive die offs every few years as a consequence, and then slowly building up until they over populate again.
Those stupid humans, the greedy arrogant humans, they do unnatural things like setting hunting limits, fishing limits, timber cutting limits, ensuring land isn’t over grazed or over cultivated, consciously limiting their own birth rate, refusing to allow major projects to proceed until environmental impact studies have been done, protecting endangered species by protecting their habitat and actively breeding them in captivity to restock the natural population.
Who’s in harmony and who’s out of control again? The ONLY animal that has EVER made even an ATTEMPT to take only from the environment as much as is needed and with an eye to conservation is us humans.
If the world every does go cataclysmic in some way, those stupid animals better pray that whatever species they belong to, itz one of the ones that us greedy arrogant abusive humans have some interest in preserving, because the rest are going to get left to become extinct.
Harmony with nature my bleep bleeping bleep.
Well I am sure they just meant to use science and art for the public good to create a sustainable future on the fragile planet.
It’s a little scary at first. But hardly eugenics. Is it?
@richard Evans says:
“Interesting they think animals take “only what they need”, they’ve never seen what a fox does in a hen house I take it?”
Mongolian wolves, upon catchng up with a herd of deer, kill all of them in the snow and eat only little. The frozen deer are remembered and when spring comes, the pack revisits the site to eat the thawing venison. They have learned how to use the climate in service of ‘nature’.
Mongolians, knowing this behaviour, following the wolves and pick up freshly killed deer with no effort at all. Sometimes intelligent adaption is better than superhuman effort. It is geeks over jocks once again.
Wolves in a cattle herd, They don’t just kill for food…
Brings to mind the Timothy Treadwell series, Grizzly Man? or some such, I had not laughed so much in years, first at the mind-blowing ignorance of the man, smoozing with wild bears and then the logical ending. Surprised the family of his dead girl friend did not sue his estate and family for everything. In my twisted opinion the only cure for these delusional soothsayers is grant their wishes, Hug a polar bear TV.This way they can become one with nature and find out how lovey wild animals really are, and others can profit from their idiocy. Churchill Manitoba needs the economic boost, and it would be way more entertaining than Ice Road Truckers or Ice Pilots.Not to mention a better plot line than the southern imposter Arctic Air. Sarc? Only mildly.
“I am sure they just meant to use science and art for the public good.”
What the artistes are using is children. It’s not like nobody ever warned these people that global warming alarmism is an unscientific fraud. Half the world is telling them, but they don’t want the kids to know that. They seek to fill up innocent minds with doubt-free propaganda.
I think we humans are pretty good.
I was watching a discovery program about imagined encounters with Aliens. All the scientists agreed on one thing – adavanced aliens would not be friendly. They explained that all the smartest animals are predators, and any aliens coming here would be predators, and they would deliberately destroy all human life to get what they want.
But does anybody believe that WE would act like that if we encountered a less developed extra solar civilization. There would be committees set up to carry out risk assessments, enviromental impact assessments, diversity assessments, and everything else. Even in the laughably anti capitalist movie Avatar, they never set the antagonists up to embark on premeditated sterilisation of the indigenous populations (although they did lash out in frustration in then end).
Yet, if aliens would do this to us – and 97% of scientists agree that they would – then by comparison we must be veritable angels!
Why does the wolf have his eyes on the elk?
Alec Rawls says: “global warming alarmism is an unscientific fraud.”
True. However, the charges against humanity here are:
1. we have poisoned our environment with toxic waste, and
2. used up all the natural resources until the earth could no longer support us
This is the identical twin of global warming science – sustainability. In either one, the final conclusion is that people (as we now live) are an impurity in the hydrologic and air cycles. The terms are used interchangably in many articles. The scientific methodology and funding are conjoined. So no academic black eye for anyone who did not notice which identical twin they were looking at.
Sustainability science promises new terrors and tipping points in our electricity, water, crops, cattle, and coffee:
“Human beings live in a new age, many scientists believe, one called the Anthropocene, in which human effects on Earth’s systems are powerful regulators of how those systems function. Or how they are beginning to break down.”
Yeah, the ‘animals living in harmony with Nature’ meme is supremely irritating. Australians who are not living in greenie fairyland know better. We have locust plagues that strip every leaf off every plant in their path. We have packs of wild dogs that eviscerate sheep and lambs by the dozen and leave them dying in the paddock. We have kangaroo populations that fluctuate wildly between years of plenty and years of drought, when many starve to death.
As for the disgraceful Ballarat gallery display, thanks to Alec it has received quite a bit of publicity here. Hopefully, there are some grownups on the funding or management body who will do something about it.
Zeke says:
November 22, 2012 at 10:08 am
“Well I am sure they just meant to use science and art for the public good to create a sustainable future on the fragile planet.”
That familiar Totalitarian UN mantra might comfort them and you, but if CO2 is their alleged Bogeyman, their infantile delusions will not protect the rest of Humanity from the massively destructive effects of their final “solutions”.