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)
“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…”
Well, it’s an art gallery, and the art form seems to be delivering a far over the top parody of environmentalism. Do theyalso sell homeopathic crystals mined by dwarfs during full moon?
So if the lighthouse is being maintained, then there must be shipping so there is therefore energy use. My guess is they must have invented fusion power or thorium reactors since they will have evolved away from co2. Then there must also be animl anti nuke
john robertson says:
November 22, 2012 at 11:02 am
“In my twisted opinion the only cuer 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.”
Ironically, in that case, the Polar Bear would really only take what he needs.
Seems like the artist lives far away from nature..
“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..”
Of course, elks are part of our natural resources, at least here in Scandinavia, and would presumably have killed off every last elk before becoming extinct ourselves.
“Taking what is ours..” well that must be a thought-quote from the wolf, sights fixed on that fat elky steak.
Alec, I think I might have drawn a little friendly fire from you. Sometimes I am a little too pithy for my own good. I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Personally I find such CAGW propaganda turning up in an Art Museum particularly offensive. Its should be a place of objectivity that puts the paintings and exhibits in their correct perspective and place in time – eco washing what are antiques shows a certain crass disregard for history and what the original artist was trying to capture.
So they wouldn’t pollute their pristine environment, did that big bunch of beautiful animals bring along their own pooper-scopoers? Can’t see any scoopers, but does the beautiful environmentalist’s picture hide the poop, too?
You’d think these super-cool avant-garde “artists” would be more concerned with bringing their image up to date. In 1960, western countries were actually heading for the situation in this picture. Large areas of US farmland were actually dying from lead and other heavy metals. It was not an imaginary problem.
The first set of pollution laws solved that real problem. Every law after 1974, especially the “biodiversity” and carbon nonsense, has moved things backwards by making it harder to sustain civilization at all.
What they forgot to drill into the children is that, also, each must give according to his ability. Or else there will be a knock on the door during the night.
Any animal species that has aligned themselves with humans have done very well for themselves. Think of the dog, cat, horse, cows, chickens… All are now world wide and except for rare breeds in great shape numbers wise. Yes we cull the unwanted males and old females but that would happen in the wild anyway. At least humans kill very quick which is more than I can say for other predators who have no problem eating their prey once they are down often when the prey is still alive.
To bad the type of documentation shown on Wild Kingdom has now been replaced by the ‘Bambi Syndrome’ HMMMmmm seems some one else uses that term besides me. link The worst part of the ‘Bambi Syndrome’ which the linked article does not cover is the affected individual seems to think animals are just humans dressed in warm fuzzy costumes. When the animal acts like you would expect an animal to act they are horrified or in denial. Unfortunately it is most often children who are hurt. (In Londonderry NH, my next door neighbor’s beautiful little 6 yr old girl was badly mauled and her face mangled because of this type of denial on the part of an adult.)
Examples:
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DirkH says:
November 22, 2012 at 11:37 am
… Do they also sell homeopathic crystals mined by dwarfs during full moon?
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At least the homeopathic crystals hurt no one else and help clean-out the Zombies in the Gene Pool. (Hat tip to Author Sharyn McCrumb)
john robertson says:
November 22, 2012 at 11:02 am
…In my twisted opinion the only cure for these delusional soothsayers is grant their wishes, Hug a polar bear TV….
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I volunteer Al Gore as first in the line-up….
Zeke says:
November 22, 2012 at 12:08 pm
I think I’m the only one who’s never bitten. I’ve even tried pointing up the irony/sarcasm/sardonicism in your posts when people have bitten. 🙂
DaveE.
ConTrari says:
November 22, 2012 at 12:05 pm
That thought has often crossed my mind about Environmentalists, all townies, never been near enough to nature to find out that it will turn around and kill you if you don’t watch out.
DaveE.
send them a email I did, Email address on bottom of Australian climate madness http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/
Ballaarat is a fine Victorian City built on the hard work and efforts of Gold Rush miners. The City deserves better than this false, mean propaganda from its Art Gallery. In 1890 the climate was a lot hotter in Central Victoria than now and people who lived and worked in these harsh environments and built the City, should be recognised as the heroes and titans that they were, men, women and children too. They are now depicted by Inner City Greenies as environmental wreckers and exploiters. In these days life was hard and graveyards show that men, women and children died young as a result of lack of technology and medical knowledge. The Ballaarat Art Gallery is a fine adaptation of an old building which this sort of idiotic propaganda trashes totally. The organisers of this show should be cast out into a tent at the back of the defunct Deborah Mine to contemplate their sins.
“we have poisoned our environment with toxic waste and used up all the natural resources until the earth could no longer support us…”
Since the planet can’t sustain all of us, as we live now, with our electricity, water, high-yield crops, cattle, gas, and coffee, does this mean that scientists and politicians, along with artists and the social sciences are working to reduce the population and its needs, in order to have an environmentally sustainable future planet?
This wouldn’t be modern-day eugenics, would it Maestro?
Good souls, is the animal on the right [the – presumed – Light-house Keeper] a wolf – or a deer.
The Darlings – deer-dear-darling, gedit? – came to the rescue of the ‘Forfarshire’.
And I guess that the beady eye on the [central] elk is one of love – or lust, perchance?
Happy Thanksgiving to all – we’ve gales and floods in the UK. Obviously catastrophic [anthropogenic] climate change, although I think I remember the UK has had gales and floods before . . . . . . .
“plants and animals which lived in harmony with nature, only taking what they needed and adapting…”
Has this geek never heard about all species being capable to multiply exponentially? Or does he deny Darwinism? So. Numbers are always limited by resources, in each single case. Living species do need everything available. The beautiful harmony only comes from early and horrible death of most individuals, their flesh consumed by other beings fast, to make the environment nice & clean at all times. That’s the very process of adaptation at work. Disgusting, is it not?
Humans, living in a free & educated society are the only exception, at least in peacetime. They don’t need to adapt much, invention is quite sufficient. As soon as a resource runs out, they can switch to another technology using other, so far unexploited resources. And no, we are not poisoning our environment with toxic waste, at least not indefinitely. Europe & Northern America is much cleaner now than a half century ago. True, the Chinese still have a monstrous cleanup job ahead of them, but I bet they’ll manage, provided the blood bath of Tienanmen square was only a hiccup and they win their freedom eventually by getting rid of the corrupt & oppressive communist superstructure.
Gail Combs says:
November 22, 2012 at 9:51 am
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.
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Mmmm, lamb!
“only taking what they needed and adapting” aka living on scraps, in fear, and eventually becoming some other animal’s dinner. Have these people ever seen animals in nature? They exist in a state of being petrified of getting eaten by another animal. It’s not for me. Thanks, but no thanks. I would like to drop Al-Gore naked in the jungle and see how long he lasts “living in harmony with nature”.
http://afr.com/p/opinion/climate_change_should_send_chill_78Dg4mC0g1EM6ggKRDJIkL
will those feral Banksters survive and prosper Climate Cycling???
regards
(and this clown is a Professor??)
That awful Tony Crane piece is a cautionary tail as it depicts, by its mere presents in an art museum, what Marxism does to everything. It does not matter how unskilled the artist is, or inept a paintings execution, as long as it sends the right message, and glorifies mediocrity.
I have already sent my comments to the gallery, copied in part below:
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Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM
To: artgal@ballarat.vic.gov.au
I have recently viewed some items in your art trail for children.
These are available on the Quadrant Online website:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2012/11/the-fine-art-of-scaring-children
and also at Australian Climate Madness:
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/11/ballarat-museum-indoctrinates-children-with-climate-propaganda/
Given the number of people around the world who view these sites, you can be sure that this will go “viral”.
My view is that what you are saying constitutes child abuse.
On the other hand, since no one has yet been prosecuted for images and video showing children being hanged or blown to bits for failing to put their hands up to join “carbon kids” or similar warped enterprises, I am not expecting any action to be taken.
You might need to consider the following:
http://nipccreport.org/articles/2012/nov/14nov2012a1.html
Alberto Boretti, Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of Ballarat’s School of Science and Engineering:
” … rise of sea level in the bay of Sydney by 2100 is therefore more likely less than the 50 mm measured so far over the last 100 years, rather than the meter [1000 mm] predicted by some models … the latter of which would appear to be the source of “inspiration” for the Australian government’s pronouncements.”
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Followed by other comments on the specifics referred to in the exhibition.
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The image at the top is a puzzle. Looks like someone’s been consuming too much weed or something … Kangaroo is ok. Elk? Looks more like a red deer. A few of those around. Third creature a bit strange for a wolf. Maybe a feral cat? They do get big down here. Or a cougar? Allegedly some of these were brought in by US aircrews during WWII.
Nice pics of pre-1900 natural phenomena. Are the perpetrators of this show trying to convince us that nature has some idealized perfection? I’ve always believed that nature is a battle for survival and domination. I never thought that nature was a kind, gentle, idealistic event. Nature is out to kill you.