Witnessing ecocide is the greatest wrench of the heart and soul.
Australia has not recovered from the 2022 floods and social trauma is now inserted in the nation’s social/climate zeitgist. The devastating war in Ukraine deeply punctuates massive ecocide with the destruction of a dam – 30 times the size of Sydney Harbour – resulting in greater danger as sentient beings are dying, oil is being released into the waters, human excrement and mines, warfare weapons utilised by the military industrial complex and their corporate investors. We have every right to ask: ‘Are nations being drawn into a Saturnian death wish?’. Saturn was obsessed with power and chose to attempt to eat his robust son, Jupiter, who placed stones in his mouth, resulting in Saturn choking and being condemned to the bottom of the ocean… where he continues to roar! Goody goody.
Ecocide is happening locally as power and corporate interests relish the potential dollars to come. Homelessness, trauma and deep social depression continue.
Peter Dutton says vote ‘No’ ‘coz the issue is ‘all about race’. Wrong Peter it’s all about stolen land, culture, and intergenerational trauma.
Local political power representatives, the majority blokes, huddle into secretive groups to aid money and power; they witness homelessness and the plight of children and future generations.
Ecocide destroyed the West Byron site for development, the proposed vile methane spewing bioenergy facility in the Arts & Industry Estate, will ensure the ecocide of the adjacent bird sanctuary as methane emissions will impact upon human respiration and ensure ecocide of the environs. I feel for the women on Council that are somewhat devoured by the aggressive monied patriarchy. My feminist heart and soul upholds the words of Rebecca West, 1913 The Clarion; ‘I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat’. I know a lot of feminist (almost) thinking men. I figure if all genders choose to speak against ecocide then forests etc, will thrive and doormats will wither and die!
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
