Culture catcher: 7
Bruce Thornton, Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide (New York, 2007):
Indeed, on nearly every count, the evidence suggests that taking seriously the Green complaints about capitalism and science would be the worst thing for nature and humans particularly those in the developing world.
Contrary to the pronouncements of the anti-globalization lobby, continuing poverty and lack of development represent the most serious threat to the environment. As Jack Hollander, emeritus professor of energy from the University of California at Berkeley puts it, “Poverty is the environmental villain; poor people are its victims. Impoverished people often do plunder their resources, pollute their environment, and overcrowd their habitats. They do these things not out of willful neglect but only out of the need to survive.”
Caring for nature is the luxury of those who aren’t worried about eating for another day. And free-market capitalism, the villain of the Greens, is the best way to…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins