Yes, Gaia is, and she is hurting.
Surely she is worth saving in all her glory? What do you say?
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Yes, Gaia is, and she is hurting.
@ By Gavin Webber 11 Comments
I have been working diligently on my Clay Oven eBook so I needed a break away from the screen. Ben suggested that we visit the Museum, so off we went.
The Melbourne Museum is big. So big, that we didn’t get to see all of it in the time we had allocated.
Firstly, the dinosaur exhibit.
We read all the information and looked at all the bones. The displays were very well made, with information about the era each dinosaur lived in, what they ate, and how they lived. We must have spent the first hour just reading all the information.
My thoughts and comments to my daughter Megan were that the timelines of the dinosaur age are just unfathomable when compared to the human timeline. We have been around for the blink of an eye, and managed to stuff up the environment in only a couple of hundred years. The dinosaurs were around for hundreds of millions of years and didn’t manage to stuff anything up. Kudos to the dinosaurs!
We then looked at how old the earth was. It was old, like 4.5 billion years old. It surprised Ben, but I had already learnt this when I was his age!
From a globe of red hot magma, to a planet with water and continents supporting life. An amazing transformation, and somewhere amongst it all was life. Precious in all its forms.
Then into the mammal exhibition. Walking into a room full of preserved animals made me feel very sad. To think that many of these beasts are nearly extinct, because of our disregard for our actions, with no thought of the consequences. A barrel of fun to take to the museum, aren’t I?
I spent a lot of time here looking and looking, with moist eyes. I didn’t let the kids see though, as I didn’t want to spoil their day out.
What did make me shed a tear was an exhibit at the entrance to this room. It was the Human Population Growth Exhibit. Here is a video of it.
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Yes, I am for real. We experienced a tremor here in Melton, with the epicentre being about 170km (106 miles) away from us near Moe, Victoria.
It was recorded at 5.3 on the Richter scale, but no major damage has been recorded so far. Here is the latest from news.com.au
I was sitting in my computer chair drafting a post on the Simple Green Frugal Co-op, when my chair began to shake. I called out to Kim to see if she felt it, and she obviously did because at the same time, she called out to me. Kim started to call friends to see what was going on. It lasted for about 7 seconds.
I hit the social networks straight away to see if anyone else had experienced anything, and almost instantly, Facebook and Twitter lit up with the news, at least 30 minutes before the mainstream media got a story to air. Thank goodness it wasn’t major.
Anyway, enough excitement for one day! I still feel a bit funny and now I know what it feels like to dance with Gaia!