Sassy sister Cate Blanchett recently, and quite movingly, said of her activism on the issue of climate change: ''I can't look my children in the face if I'm not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people."

I applaud such courage and conviction. But for me, the sense of urgency is even more immediate. If I were not waging a (peaceful) war against the denialists and alerting the world to their appalling lies then I wouldn't be a able to look Gaia Herself in the face (and I ...
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Fellow travellers, as we all know racism and sexism often go together, particularly in the media. This is to be expected, since the whole paradigm is dominated by white male peenie wavers.

And sometimes this sinister subtext exists even in stories that appear at first to be attempting to deconstruct that depressing state of affairs. Take this article about how there are more and more Aboriginal women working in West Australian diamond mines. The whole tenor of the piece implies that this deve...
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Fellow travellers, a lamb has been born with a human face.

Gaia has been sending us messages for a long time. And this has to be one of the clearest yet!

As usual, the "scientific" explanation - that the abnormality has been caused by a vitamin A deficiency - is completely inadequate. Look at the photo. How could that face not be trying to tell us something?

And what is the lesson we must learn? Clearly, that sheep are people too! And that we shouldn't exploit them as we do, stealing their wool ...
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