sungazer wrote:I admit freely to being a skeptic about aboriginal practices. I dont think they have helped themselves with such things as The Secret Women's Business Scam not to mention a raft of other money garbing scams. Call me a racist and get back to the bush fire topic.
hahahaha I for one think you are right to be sceptical, we had naidoc week at school, and a lot of Aborigines when I was a kid, and every year their rhetoric changed and words were different for different things, stories always changed and nothing was ever consistent. reason? they dont know anything about their past at all, why? cos no literacy, no written text, no empirical records.
That and they were far from good for the environment, they had a very poor and negative effect on flora and fauna here in Australia, being severely low tech as a ethnicity they were always going to low hanging fruit/easy targets, this means all the slow, big, and stupid animals were wiped out by them shortly after they arrived here, then the vegetation and habitats took a turn for the worst, most of Australia's forest was degraded severely, and Eucalypts became the dominant plant life, with this came fires, which further drove desertification and the extinction of a lot of plant life. None of this was natural, it was all the negligence of aboriginal activity. there is nothing noble/heroic or helpful about their practices. even prescribed burns here in the west are done when the majority of marsupials and birds and other animals are mating/nesting and the result is localised extinctions and thousands of species on the endangered and threatened list including numbats.