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You might be
wondering what this piece is all about.... Well one day I got very angry when a federal government white paper on greenhouse emissions was released with a commitment to support the coal industry and production of energy through coal fired burners, rather than increase our targets for clean energy, thus putting into danger the pioneering green energy industry. Tasmanian lost a plant to build windmills and many other opportunities have since gone off-shore. Meanwhile, I was watching a great documentary about the Moulin Rouge dancers... don't you love their moves?... so it is pretty obvious they both go together! Well Nero fiddled while Rome burnt! |
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On the dress are
three layers. The bottom one contains a line of pigs doing the
can-can. Greedy little pigs. The middle layer shows a slice of our society - big cities, industry, coal fired burners, pollution, car emissions, rubbish, clear-felling of forests. Where are we going? The top one has a whole bunch of corporate suits saying things like "No to Kyoto", "consume", "growth", "profit", "market forces". Why do they do it? So does this help us understand the issue any better? Do we perhaps need a systems understanding to help solve this problem? |
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with a brochure which is a line of pigs doing the can-can. Each pig
has something to say... This little piggy went to market And bought a new fridge (on credit card), designed by manufacturers to break down after 7 years, although they have the technology to make them last for 50. This little piggy stayed at home In a lifestyle which if everyone on earth did it we would need at least 3 to 5 planets to provide the resources of what we consume. This little piggy had roast beef Cooked with electricity creating 27.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per Australian per year, the highest in the industrial world. This little piggy had none Because 826 million people on earth are starving, despite the butter mountains in Europe sitting there to protect farm prices. This little piggy was a wiggly little piggy…. and wiggled and squirmed all the way into bed and pulled the covers over her head and hoped the whole thing would go away.
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| Which little piggy are you? (I'm the one on the left.) |