Here’s another shot of Norio Takamiya’s wonderful sculptured echidna.
There are many interesting things about echidnas.
One fact is that this monotreme mammal of Australia and New Guinea is named after a monster from Greek mythology.
The mythological Echidna was said to be the daughter of Gaia, and that’s fascinating in the context of the Australian carbon dioxide tax debate.
Funnily enough, as an echidna needs to be able to survive underground, it can tolerate low levels of oxygen and high levels of – yes, you guessed it – carbon dioxide.
Also funnily enough, the Australian Climate Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, the noted climate alarmist, is also a prominent Gaia enthusiast.
Flannery once predicted Earth would soon come to life in the form of Gaia.
And he has been reported saying: “Once that occurs, then the Gaia of the ancient Greeks really will exist. This planet, this Gaia, will have acquired a brain and a nervous system. That will make it act as a living animal, a living organism, at some sort of level."
And, quite seriously folks, “Well Gaia is our Earth, this extraordinary living organism of ours that we’re all part of and just breathing now, talking we are plugged into Gaia aren’t we? We are, we’re taking the atmosphere into our bodies, we’re changing its chemical composition and we’re exhaling it. And it’s life that makes the atmosphere what it is, that’s a very important aspect of Gaia you know. Gaia is life working as a whole to maintain the atmosphere as it is, so that life can go on. So, Gaia I think is saying to us ‘it’s time you took control’.”
Personally, this Earthling would rather watch an echidna than pay much attention to anything Tim Flannery says.
There are many interesting things about echidnas.
One fact is that this monotreme mammal of Australia and New Guinea is named after a monster from Greek mythology.
The mythological Echidna was said to be the daughter of Gaia, and that’s fascinating in the context of the Australian carbon dioxide tax debate.
Funnily enough, as an echidna needs to be able to survive underground, it can tolerate low levels of oxygen and high levels of – yes, you guessed it – carbon dioxide.
Also funnily enough, the Australian Climate Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, the noted climate alarmist, is also a prominent Gaia enthusiast.
Flannery once predicted Earth would soon come to life in the form of Gaia.
And he has been reported saying: “Once that occurs, then the Gaia of the ancient Greeks really will exist. This planet, this Gaia, will have acquired a brain and a nervous system. That will make it act as a living animal, a living organism, at some sort of level."
And, quite seriously folks, “Well Gaia is our Earth, this extraordinary living organism of ours that we’re all part of and just breathing now, talking we are plugged into Gaia aren’t we? We are, we’re taking the atmosphere into our bodies, we’re changing its chemical composition and we’re exhaling it. And it’s life that makes the atmosphere what it is, that’s a very important aspect of Gaia you know. Gaia is life working as a whole to maintain the atmosphere as it is, so that life can go on. So, Gaia I think is saying to us ‘it’s time you took control’.”
Personally, this Earthling would rather watch an echidna than pay much attention to anything Tim Flannery says.
