I visited the Launceston Museum today, lingering longest at the exhibit revealing the relentless, purposeful hunting of the Thylacine to its very extinction following white colonisation of Tasmania. I read with horror of the Tiger and Eagle Extermination Associations, systematically going about their nasty business with government approval and funding. At that point in history, as with any other, people did what they felt was right to protect their own interests, oblivious to the consequences, and no doubt we will be just as guilty in our time of doing the same. Maybe not to the extent of wiping an entire species of animal off the face of the planet, but in so many ways we whittle away the earth's resources bit by tiny little bit, until it simply becomes too difficult to make the moral decisions necessary to reverse the relentless momentum. Anyway, it was a sobering lesson, and made me rather sad.
Thylacine
exterminated
criminal
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