All you need to do is say YES.
Say Yes! I can do something about this.
Say Yes! I can help.
Say Yes! By saying No to plastic.
I know it is hard.
I know we are surrounded by the rotten stuff.
But if we each decide to stop buying one item of plastic.
Just one item.
I have said no to plastic water bottles.
So just Say Yes
And we can make a small step forward.
Say Yes to the planet and say no to unecessary plastic.
Our grandchildren are depending on us.
{ 7 comments }
I didn’t want to watch the documentary, The Cove. It wasn’t high on my agenda as ideal background noise as I faffed about on the computer after a long day at work.
But inertia won as I was loathe to get up from the coach to find the remote.
So I finally watched The Cove because I was too knackered to change the channel.
I don’t know how to describe how I am feeling today.
I think I am in a little bit of shock still.
The film was very distressing
Even though I knew the dolphin slaughter was coming I was unprepared for the psychic impact of hearing the dolphins distress.
The sound of dolphins screaming isn’t easy to ignore.
I honestly dont know if I have the energy to focus on dolphins as well as all the other horrible things we do as a species.
We have a long list of awfulness to our names.
The Australian Kangaroo cull comes to mind then there is the factory farming of domestic animals.
We can also own up to the practice of shooting Brumbies from helicopters.
Designer pets and puppy farms. Sharks caught soley for their fins and then thrown back into the sea alive.
Poisoning of our wildlife with the horrific 1080 poison.
The list goes on and on.
But for the moment I am trying not to listen to the echoes of dying dolphins in the back of my psyche.
You can watch the cove on ivew if you missed it.
You can donate to Save Japans Dolphins
Or you can google any of the other appalling things that I have mentioned here and then come back and tell me what you think we can do.
I don’t know what I am going to do as I haven’t had a deep think about it yet.
Our planet is at tipping point. The ocean is in crisis.
Where the fuck do we think our grandchildren are going to live if not here on this dying planet?
We need to find some solutions today people. Not tomorrow.
Otherwise we wont have a tomorrow.
{ 21 comments }
Wow! Sunday Selections has been going for twenty weeks.
Thank you to everyone for playing along with me and sharing your photos and your stories.
I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
Easy Peasy.
Here are my photos for this week.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I have a large honeysuckle that grows over the balcony rail, it is only a few feet away from my computer space and in the spring and summertime the perfume is divine. I often try to photograph the honey eaters as they drink the nectar from the flowers or the silver eyes and wrens as they pick insects from the leaves.
This year the plant is absolutely covered with grey aphids there are zillions of the fat little fuckers happily sucking the life out of the flower buds.
As soon as “The Spouse” sees aphids he gets an itchy trigger finger and wants to start madly spraying soapy water everywhere to kill the little sap suckers.
I am not that hasty. I like to adopt a wait and see approach to pest management. We have a very good ecological balance here and I have found that it only takes a week or so before all the predatory insects find the veritable feast on the honeysuckle.
Also while the Aphids are sucking the life out of the honeysuckle flowers I know where they are, the honeysuckle is a tough plant and it will recover. I would much rather have a large population of Aphids on one plant that can cope instead of all over the garden on my more fragile plants.
So yesterday when I should have been working on various projects and answering your emails, I was photographing the busy ecosystem that is contained within one plant in my garden.
The birds come in the early morning to breakfast on the aphids.
There are ladybirds everywhere, gorging themselves on fat juicy aphids. (photo credit: Veronica took this first shot)
I counted at least four different types of parasitic wasp busily hunting aphids.They were far too flitty and zoomy for me to photograph well.
There were lots of different flies feeding on the honeydew the aphids produce as well as two different types of small ant.
As I am writing this I can see a number of finches eating aphids as well, I know that if I move they will fly away and I don’t want to disturb their breakfast. You will just have to imagine them flitting from branch to branch busily pecking aphids off the flower buds.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
This is a press release by Mick Dodson, former Australian of the year, this comes courtesy of the Tasmanian Times Website.
It beggars belief that this is even legal in Australia. Aboriginal land in one of our most fragile ecosystems has just been earmarked for compulsory acquisition by the Western Australian Government.
The reason? Energy giants including BP, Woodside, Chevron and Shell want to build a gas pipeline, and they don’t want to wait for Indigenous consultation. Some traditional owners are in favour of the pipeline, others disagree. But one thing is clear: compulsory acquisition means no genuine consultation, and far less compensation if the project goes ahead.
We need to respond quickly and make sure Premier Barnett’s announcement is met with national outrage. Locals are delivering a petition to the Premier’s office next week. Can you back them up by adding your name today, and asking your friends to do the same? Go to link http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/nocompulsoryacquisition
The nation is talking about hung parliament negotiations in the marble halls of Parliament House. But far away, in the red dirt of James Price Point, 400km from Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, there is another power struggle going on; pitting the profits of BP, Shell, Woodside and Chevron against the rights of Indigenous Australians. You can help shift the balance.
There are numerous registered Aboriginal heritage sites in the vicinity of James Price Point (Walmadan). Locals tell of Indigenous burial sites and ancient rock art; in some areas you can actually see the footprints of prehistoric birds, long extinct. But the Western Australian Premier wants to bypass Aboriginal elders in what’s been called “colonialism all over again” by Wayne Bergmann, Kimberly Land Council CEO. And what’s more, the project hasn’t even received environmental approvals required by State or Federal law.
This is about more than one site, or one gas pipeline. Compulsory acquisition in WA would put the profits of multinationals above the rights of traditional owners—and threatens decades of progress on land rights. Can you stand with traditional owners behind a campaign to stop compulsory acquisition? Colin Barnett’s decision could set back the Indigenous Rights movement by 30 years or more. Together we have the opportunity to ensure this doesn’t happen.
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
