In 2001, the Buddhas of Bamiyan were
destroyed by the Taliban on the orders of Mullah Omar.
Nations across the world found this
extremely offensive, even though the Buddhas were just mud, straw, wood and
stone, and the actual destruction did not physically harm anyone, and though
the statues are (still) being reconstructed.
Also, the Taliban were, and are, semiliterate
Afghan peasants with no vision beyond their backyards, no sense of history, and
no love of culture. Nor did they earn a penny from the destruction – quite the
reverse, in fact, since they turned down offers to buy the statues to save them
from obliteration.
So they blew up the Buddhas with artillery,
land mines and dynamite.
And the governments of the world, including Islamic ones, were
outraged. Quite properly so.
Today, the government of Australia is
planning to dump dredged sand and silt on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is a World Heritage
Area, meaning it belongs to the entire world, even though it is located on Australian
territory.
The dumping of sand will have calamitous
effects on the Reef, including the wholesale destruction of the living
organisms there, including fish, algae, and the reef itself.
Let me repeat: the Great Barrier Reef,
which is made up of coral, is basically not just an ecosystem, but a mass of
coral, which is a living organism.
And the democratically
elected, highly educated government of Australia, which sent troops to help overthrow the illiberal, undemocratic Taliban, will knowingly choke this
ecosystem, this organism, to permanent and irreversible death, by dumping
dredged sand which can be disposed of elsewhere.
If they go through with this, will the
governments of the world, including democratic, educated ones, be outraged? And will they express it?
If they do not, I would be interested in
knowing why.
The Great Barrier Reef is a World Heritage Area, meaning it *belongs to the entire world*, even though it is located on Australian territory.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good point even if it is not technically lawfully true.
However, it should be true but to enforce it would play into the globalists hands of centralised world power.
I don't know to fix this other than assist in all the protests. It is a dark day in our history for sure.
Bill, you are so absolutely right. But besides a few bleats, I don't think we'll hear anything because look at what the so-called civilized world has done to the cradle of civilization - Iraq and Syria - and what it has threatened to do to Iran, another great ancient civilization. And speaking of nature, how much wildlife and humans have been wiped out by the likes of Agent Orange used in Vietnam? It's really unbelievable how capital's drive to eat and swallow everything is ruining the world. I can rant on for hours. . . .
ReplyDeleteBill, what you see here is that the "educated" West can do all sorts of crimes and nobody dare be critical of them. But, oh dear, if some third world group do something rude, the roar from the West is deafening.
ReplyDeleteCan you say double standards? YES we can!
Bill, this is what I call double standards. When the "West" does it, no harm, no foul. When others do it, cries of murder go up fast.
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