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July 22, 2009
We are experiencing a whole week of the media celebrating the Americans walking on the moon 40 years ago--- it is a celebration of science, technology, human will and astronauts as "heroes". This celebration and selling of space exploration has become part of the "adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism" in American culture.
Moir
All this celebration of Australia's role in the man on the moon mission. Yet we cannot use science, technology and human will to fix the ecology of the Murray-Darling Basin. It has been left to die slowly because there is no national commitment to cut back on the over allocations of water licences for irrigated agriculture. Victoria has even been allowed to take water from the River Murray for Melbourne under the guise of modernizing infrastructure.
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