tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394756838558196996.post3902115385585200669..comments2023-05-26T00:47:26.735-07:00Comments on Cyclone Charlie's Personal blog: The Wombat holocaust and the sad loss of Robin WilliamsLKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11244232092173678321noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394756838558196996.post-6882036056338283692014-08-13T18:39:55.780-07:002014-08-13T18:39:55.780-07:00Thanks Stokesy.
As Gerald Durrell put it "hum...Thanks Stokesy.<br />As Gerald Durrell put it "humanity is sawing off the branch upon which it sits."<br />Horrendous stuff.LKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11244232092173678321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1394756838558196996.post-30701985700224122042014-08-13T18:15:51.161-07:002014-08-13T18:15:51.161-07:00Thanks Lachlan,
I am sickened by the wombat story...Thanks Lachlan,<br /><br />I am sickened by the wombat story. I spend a fair bit of time in and around the state forests out Oberon way, and one of the few fauna that have carved out an existence in the ecological wasteland of pine is the wombat. I have enjoyed watching these miniature bulldozers getting about, as you say, doing their own thing, neither scared of or interested in me.<br /><br />I wince every time I see one dead on the side of the road, and that is every time I go up there, at least one and sometimes five or more.<br /><br />The foresters and farmers out there seem like otherwise very decent folk, but they have a blind spot when it comes to wombats. Apparently if an animal impedes the business of farming or logging in any way a deep hate at worst, and a strong disregard at best, emerges.<br /><br />All part of the primacy of the human project, a notion that will kill us in the end.<br /><br />Vale Robin Williams. He came along right as the rest of the world was telling me to stop being silly and showed me that silliness is a holy act, a blessing and possibly the most acute response to a world of adult self importance and venal stupidity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814952667803482727noreply@blogger.com