We thank The Echo for publishing the letters from John Bradley and David Morris discussing the recent local extinction of many of our unique native birds and plants. Fortunately, these species had no value and will not be missed. The only things of value are obviously people.
Nature may have had some importance in the past but is of no value now and has been replaced by the wonderful creativity of the only things that matter on the planet, human beings. These perhaps may be the thoughts of many readers as they prepare for another day working towards our rapidly approaching glorious future full of happy children.
We also know that ordinary people do not matter. Almost all of our media is dominated by our wonderful sportspeople, entertainers, and other celebrities whose smiling faces bring happiness to our lives. We all celebrate their well-deserved success. Their value to our society must be far in excess of all the other people who are of so little value that we never see any of them winning awards.
Perhaps this is the view of our children who must all aspire to be celebrities. Much more important than the garbage collectors, cleaners, roadworkers, sewerage workers, plumbers, electricians, builders, factory workers, truck drivers, farmers, rural workers, gardeners, shop owners, staff, health and education workers, journalists, and all the many other people that actually make civilisation possible.
The cult of celebrity has now colonised the planet to such a degree that there is almost no evidence in the media of either ordinary people or ordinary nature. We are all under the delusion that this is a human planet where only humans matter. However, humans do not exist. The reproducing surface of the planet is composed entirely of single-celled, microscopic, symbiotic organisms that together to create the organs of a solitary living entity. The only one like it in the known universe. Humanity is a delusional concept in the communications of a single species that has recently risen to dominance. Only one per cent of people are composed of human cells. Ninety-nine percent of people are composed of unrelated organisms that have colonised humanity to create the ecosystem that we prefer to think of as ‘ourselves’ with a glorious future. People isolated from reality.
Having broadcast a weekly, live-to-air wildlife identification program on ABC North Coast NSW Radio, now in its 27th year at 6.40am every Saturday morning, I have noticed a massive decline in listeners phoning in to talk about their wildlife experiences as there is now little wildlife left. Insecticides have killed off most of the invertebrates that pollinated the flowers that created the seeds. With a collapse in insects, pollen and fruit, the birds and all the other animals that are actually the recycling organs of the living planet have died. The estuaries essential for wading birds are now suburbs and golf courses. The nesting hollows essential for our wildlife have vanished, along with our carbon dioxide absorbing, oxygen-producing forests. The oceans are acidic, the atmosphere and climate unstable.
One of our last surviving planetary life-support organs, the hundred-million year-old Tarkine rainforest wilderness in western Tasmania is soon to become a toxic waste facility for yet another dictator-run mine. With the death of the planet there will be no happy children.
