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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Bob says: @ur momisugly November 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm
….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.
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Even ewe sheep will fight. There is a definate pecking order. Try wading through a flock of sheep and putting a bucket of feed in the trough. My husband refuses to do it, he says it is too dangerous and that is just the ewes. We keep the ram separate except when breeding.
This happened not far from me
When we are feeling a bit nasty we will send a big strong teenage guy from the city into the sheep pasture with a bucket of grain…. It is a fast way to wipe out the ‘Bambi Syndrone’
“Check out how hot the outback was in this 1890 painting by David Davies.”
No, no. Davies was prophecying what the outback would be like in 1990. In his day packs of sabre-toothed koalas loped through the snow-covered forests in pursuit of the great woolly wombat, glaciers carved their way through the Olgas, and thylacines hunted white kangaroos on the ice that covered the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Gergis has proved this.
Although more blunt terminology than I would use in most circumstances, really that caption is quite an example of the core of the increasingly prevalent enviroreligion which Dr. Zubrin discussed while calling it a “global antihuman cult.” ( http://www.google.com/search?q=“global+antihuman+cult” ) It also is an example of the usual clone-like repeating of propaganda on vague “resources” — vague as highlighting of its BS nature would occur if getting into true specifics in a mathematically literate manner (amounts of seawater available for desalination and where water returns in the end, thorium for reactors, aluminum and iron content in ore grades ranging down to 13% by mass of even the average rock, nitrogen in the atmosphere for fertilizer production, quadrillions of tons of phosphorus in the crust at even an average concentration not much less than in plants, and so on for every major input required to operate an agricultural-industrial civilization). Even on hydrocarbons, they are wrong and can’t stop lying. (I say lying since, with each individual of the type I’ve encountered so far, when shown how such claims are wrong, the originators just temporarily retreat only to deliberately repeat the same claims at their next opportunity, following a Big Lie strategy of getting others to believe by sheer repetition).
Far and away the biggest environmental problem in Australia is feral predators (cats, dogs, foxes) eating their way through Australia’s native wildlife. Pretty much every mammal below 3 kg is either extinct or on the verge. Not to mention feral goats, camels and pigs eating their way through the vegetation.
Yet the Greens protest any attempt to control these animals.
The poor wolf has apparently had to adapt to eating eucalyptus.
Also sleeping in gum trees like those Kaola Bars
Gale Combs says:
November 22, 2012 at 4:21 pm
I’m sure you meant to type syndrome but syndrone has a nice sound to it.
A sort of synthetic drone to drown out the truth of natures barbarity.
DaveE.
Adam says: @ur momisugly November 22, 2012 at 2:27 pm
….I would like to drop Al-Gore naked in the jungle and see how long he lasts “living in harmony with nature”.
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Nature would run screaming in the other direction as Jim Inhofe showed the Senate. Another link to my favorite cartoon.
Army ants, locusts, termites,. sheep and goats overgrazing [if allowed], rats, cockroaches, viruses, fleas on a dog or cat, ticks, all living in perfect and natural peace and harmony …and the list goes on.
” Zeke says:
November 22, 2012 at 10:08 am”
Zeke, I apologize to you for “biting” on your sarcasm in my response to you above. You got me!
I am pretty sure the actual artists of most of those paintings if they were alive wouldn’t appreciate the focus on global warming creed under the paintings. That was not the intent of the artist when they painted those pictures, and finding them exploiting those artists in the name of global warming very disturbing.
“plants and animals which lived in harmony with nature, only taking what they needed and adapting…”
No, dying by Malthusian arithmetic because they did not have the technology to address the deficiencies and disharmonies of nature.
If that thing is a wolf it is one strange looking wolf
Why did I get the feeling that the artist quite likes the idea of the extinction of humankind and the deaths of 7billion people?
I wonder if they realise the damage they are doing with this. Those same children are going to grow into a cooling world despite rising CO2 levels and they are going to realise that authority figures lied to them, and once they realise in sufficiently large numbers that this has happened, who knows where this might end.
Incidentally, I just saw the Ross McKittrick video. Absolutely excellent. Calm, reasoned arguments about the futility of the way that the governments are going about things.,
Paul Hanlon says:
November 23, 2012 at 6:20 am
I wonder if they realise the damage they are doing with this. Those same children are going to grow into a cooling world despite rising CO2 levels and they are going to realise that authority figures lied to them, and once they realise in sufficiently large numbers that this has happened, who knows where this might end….
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With the press in their control they can just spin it as they wish. Young people will think the older folks are nuts. We can see that at work today.
How many of us remember the ‘global cooling’ of the 1970’s? For proof of the concern there is the 1974 The CIA Report on global cooling: link and of course WUWT
But that has not stopped the Spinmeisters.
This is of course a lie wrapped in a bit of truth (note the key word consensus ) but the gullible will believe it.
1974 Time Magazine:
Another Ice Age?
British science journalist Nigel Calder was there and tells the behind the scenes tale of the 1970’s global cooling scare here
The Global Cooling Scare Revisited (‘Ice Age’ Holdren had plenty of company)
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David A. Evans says:
November 22, 2012 at 1:49 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.
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EM Smith has a good post:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/why-secession-will-not-work/
Over time, I’ve observed that cities concentrate and magnify corruption and socialism. Now there is some real positive feedback…
“I’ve even tried pointing up the irony/sarcasm/sardonicism in your posts when people have bitten. 🙂
DaveE.” and all
You are right, there must be an appropriate tag for introducing the latest greatest terminology and tactics coming from the National Science Foundation and from academic circles. How about
/Devil’s Interdisciplinary Non-profit Advocacy Dept.for a Sustainable Planet
or some other such thing.
Save a lot of trouble. (-:
“Interesting they think animals take “only what they need”, they’ve never seen what a fox does in a hen house I take it?”
The Noble Native Americans lived in harmony with nature and only took what they needed too. Well, except for “hunting” by chasing buffalo herds off of cliffs, where thousands of the animals died. Those that didn’t die from the fall suffocated from the weight of the others landing on top of them.
Afterwards, the natives came by, cut off a few choice cuts and left the rest to rot.
“The poor wolf has apparently had to adapt to eating eucalyptus. ”
You are merely displaying your ignorance of antipodean fauna. That is a tasmanian koala-wolf which is a vegetarian member of the marsupial family. 😉
Art can be a powerful medium for propaganda, a fact that Hitler understood well.
Looking at the picture from the point of a child, I would think the photo would make the child terrified of deer, wolves and kangaroos, especially that there might be glowy-eyed creatures coming at them out of red smoke. Those are the scary elements of the picture. I wonder if any have nightmares after viewing the thing.
Remember if it is all natural it is safe, and desirable, and you should make every effort to accumulate as much of it as you can —
Like:
Strychnine, arsenic, lead, cobra venom, black widows, chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, radium, radon, wasps, mercury, tornadoes, pyroclastic flows, soft ball sized hail, mud flows, tsunamis, anthrax, ricin, black holes, large asteroids on a collision course with earth, flash floods, small pox, plague infested prairie dogs, large fuzzy animals with fangs …
(/sarc)
All of those existed long before mankind came along, and are “all natural”
Mother Nature can be a mean spirited old B—- if you get cross ways with her.
Larry
Foxes, coyotes, wolves and other canids don’t kill for “fun”. They kill more than they can eat in one session because they are primarily scavengers rather than hunters (they actually prefer semi-rotten meat). If undisturbed they will retrieve the dead chickens, sheep etc and bury them for later consumption.
All members of the cat family, such as lions, must eat fresh meat because they are very vulnerable to food poisoning. That is why they usually only hunt what they can eat immediately.
You should never transfer human motivations to animal behaviour.
Bananabender: I agree with your last statement most definitely. It seems likely that wolves (and other canids) do kill and come back later, plus other critters that are scavengers benefit from the wolf kills. Same for wild cats. I am uncertain if this actually applies to domestic cats. They seem to leave a wake of carcasses in their areas. I find rabbit carcasses the cats kill frequently. Why they do this, I do not know. We tend to call it “playing with their food” but dogs and cats instinctively chance things and cats bat things around. It serves a purpose to the cats and dogs, and in addition the behaviour makes humans all warm and fuzzy, which also benefits the critters!