- Title
- Growing up the future: children's stories and Aboriginal ecology
- Creator
- Kwaymullina, Blaze; Collins-Gearing, Brooke; Kwaymullina, Ambelin; Pushman, Tracie
- Relation
- M/C Journal Vol. 15, Issue 3, p. 1-7
- Relation
- http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/487
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Through storytelling the world is created and recreated: in the values and worldviews stories offer, in the patterns of thinking and knowing that listening and reading place in our spirits and minds, in the stories we tell and live. We walk in the ripples our old people left behind and we follow them up, just as our children and the generations after us will walk in shapes and patterns we make with our lives. Our delicate world is poised on a precipice with increasing species extinction and loss of habitat, deforestation, displacement of animal and human communities, changing weather patterns, and polluted waterways. How do we manage the environmental and cultural issues of our complex global world? How do we come together to look after each other and the world around us? Often there is a sense that science will save us, that if we keep “progressing” at a fast enough rate we can escape the consequences of our actions. However, science alone, no matter how sophisticated, cannot alter the fundamental truths of action and reaction in Country: that if you take too much, something, somewhere, will go without.
- Subject
- Aboriginal; story; ecology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327701
- Identifier
- uon:25727
- Identifier
- ISSN:1441-2616
- Rights
- Copyright (c) 2012 Blaze Kwaymullina, Brooke Collins-Gearing, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Tracie Pushman This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Language
- eng
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