Hierarchies of Nonsense, the Reef and Sugarcane
June 16, 2024 By jennifer 12 Comments
We learn things through experience and by association. When people whom we respect repeat nonsense over and over then we will tend to come to believe this information – even if it makes no sense, and especially if we have no first-hand experience of it to the extent that we can’t know otherwise from first-hand experience.
When on a boat, offshore at the Great Barrier Reef it is difficult to know exactly how far away the land is, and flat farmland could just as easily present as mangrove swamp.
We are told over and over that agriculture and the natural environment are incompatible, and we are taught to despise farming and to love corals. It is likely that most people who know this, and feel very strongly about this association, have no experience of either corals or farming.
The SS Yongala Shipwreck is a 110m long former steel passenger and freight steamer which sank during a cyclone in 1911, not far from the mainland, and not far from the mouth of the Burdekin River that drains a catchment replete with sugarcane and beef cattle.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/06/hierarchies-of-nonsense-the-reef-and-sugarcane/
