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Dear Liz,
Ideally we could send everyone back to where they have come from, because even the limited number of aboriginals were quite often on the edge of starvation. Australia does not have the diversity of native foods that would support you. Look through your cupboard how much native Australian foods do you have. Do you eat kangaroo steaks cut with a piece of stone from a roo that you just ran down and speared?. Can you catch an emu and train it to give you eggs. How long is it going to take you to get enough wattle seeds to make flour. There are more native animals killed of a night by motor vehicles than ever by feral cats or dogs. It is not very easy to be self sufficient in a country like Australia, with it's low rainfall and live in the one place. You need to go where the abundance is, for instance last month was the time for Bogong moths in our area.There was nothing else edible. You could walk 30 miles down the road and catch some eels in the creeks down at Brogans Creek but first you would have to find some vines or creepers to make an eel trap. To do this you would have to walk another 50 miles in another direction. It wasn't easy. There were tribal boundaries and customs to be fulfilled before entering another's territory. If there was no food in your territory you just made do with what you had. If you starved that was the way of the world. We can have this romantic idea of how the world was, or how we
would like it to be, the reality is that we all have to work with what we
have. In the end the only tools that we have to implement change are
those that we have now. From anything else we will starve.
Regards
James
Radiasesthesia and Radionic Analysis Radionic Insect and Parasite control Bioethical Agriculture Consultant From: "Liz Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:19 AM Subject: regeneration > Hey old Rebel and Roger, Knew you wouldn't be able to resist the native veg. > topic Lloyd. > Unsure if it is because I come from Canada, or just the beauty and > uniqueness of Australian flora, but I find it very difficult to plant > anything but native flora. Just can't beat the yellow wattle, the red > bottle brushes, the grevilleas in their many forms, I could fill this page > with the unique species of this continent. > I agree whole heartedly that the sheep should go, along with the > cattle,cats, pigs, goats, another list could be filled of introduced spp. > > Because we want something,is the very thinking that got this continent into > the ecological stress it now contends with. > As much as I love the colours of Autumn in the European and north American > trees, the beauty, and life that is supported by native vegetation far > outweighs any colour seen in fall. Here I must admit that I do grow a few > introduced species, healing herbs, apples, pears, almonds, olives, apricots, > plums, raspberries and nashi. There are still times I question them. > > Lloyd when you speak of what has been done to this land I recall a photo in > an article by J> Jenkins; 2 children standing on the ground and behind them > is the standing root structure of a tree, the roots go above their heads and > is an indicator of the amount of top soil that has blown away. Almost 2 > metres in this photo taken in 1900. > > Ecologically LLoyd it is as Rachel Carson said; "...that all life of the > planet is interrelated, that each species has its own ties to others, and > that all are related to earth." The unique life, not the introduced life > (sheep, cattle, humans) on this continent depends on the native vegetation. > > We are still discovering new species, two in my region in the last 2 years, > with both being listed endangered immediately. All a bit late now as the > slopes to this area are planted in Radata Pine. > > Native veg. will remove us from the edge. > > L&L > Liz > > |
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