{"id":27262,"date":"2020-01-10T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2020-01-10T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:38:23","slug":"which-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/10\/which-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Is Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being shot or dying of thirst? That’s the question implicit in this AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> on Turkish criticism of Australia’s management of its camel herds:<\/p>\n

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Source: Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Turkey\u2019s government has been bitterly criticized for a systematic disregard for nature during its more than 17 years in power. Its multi-billion-dollar vanity projects, including Istanbul\u2019s newly opened third airport and\u00a0controversial plans for the\u00a0so-called “crazy canal<\/a>” duplicating the Bosporus, are decried for their horrific environmental costs. So it came as something of a surprise when the\u00a0spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),\u00a0Omer Celik, took to Twitter today to air his outrage over Australia\u2019s culling of camels.<\/p>\n

Celik lambasted the move in a seven-tweet thread, saying, \u201cWe are deeply concerned at news that Australia will be shooting dead as many as 10,000 camels and call upon the Australian government to find a different solution. To\u00a0kill thousands of camels<\/a>\u00a0in the belief that it will restore nature\u2019s equilibrium and preserve water sources is not a humane approach.”<\/p>\n

Australian authorities\u00a0began shooting the beasts\u00a0on Wednesday in southern Australia, where Aboriginal communities suffering from chronic drought have reported\u00a0large camel herds<\/a>\u00a0rampaging through towns\u00a0as they seek water.\u00a0The mass slaughter, which is to last five days, is not directly linked to the country\u2019s deadly bush fires, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To call this a one-off event to be blamed on the drought conditions through which Australia is plunging would be to think that the drought itself is an abnormality. However, whether or not the drought continues, it’s emblematic of the future: changing climate. For the animals, it’s not whether it’s getting better or worse, but just the simple fact that it’s changing, because most species have evolved to a certain level of specialization for the niche which they inhabit; the exceptional flexibility of humans is unusual.<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t remove our dependence on the local fauna for food, environmental support, and no doubt factors I’m not thinking of at the moment. If that fauna gets into trouble, it imperils – and perhaps condemns – our style of civilization. Contrast how we treat nature as generally disposable vs the Ahuarco<\/a> – they may act based on myths of dubious source, but that is a garment for their true connection to nature which acts to preserve the environment on which they’re dependent[1]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I expect that, in the near future, we’ll see more mass losses of life in Nature, especially in those areas in which\u00a0 humanity treats Nature as a bottomless garbage pit. How we deal with that situation should prove interesting, if only in a morbid sort of way. Do we let them die on their own or mow them down proactively when faced with overwhelming climate change?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1<\/sup> While I did not find any specifics concerning how long the Ahuarco have been around, there were implications that they’re fairly ancient. This would be congruent with social evolution, in which this particular myth had actual survival value, and thus was conserved across the generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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