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Micro-Landscapes of the AnthropoceneMain MenuMarginal WorldsPlant WorldsAnimal WorldsAmy Huang, Natasha Stavreski and Rose RzepaWatery WorldsInsect WorldsBird-Atmosphere WorldsContributed by Gemma and MerahExtinctionsMarginal WorldsSam, Zach and AlexE-ConceptsAn emergent vocabulary of eco-concepts for the late AnthropoceneSigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d
Agricultural Runoff on Gumbaynggirr Country
12022-10-02T18:04:06-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d309864plain2022-11-18T17:56:07-08:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7dOn Gumbaynggirr country in northern NSW, the dominant crop farmers grow in all seasons of the year are blueberries. Yet unregulated farming practices and blooming consumer demand have led to the abundant use of pesticides. With unprecedented rainfall in the region, the consistent downpour has swept sediment, debris, and toxic runoff from the blueberry farms through the hills and into freshwater creeks and rivers, which dilutes the drinking water of plants, insects and inland animals, and goes onto race to the coast to spill out into the frothy seas where it flares the lungs and skins of all its residents, to then be evaporated by the sun and form floss-like clouds in the sky which grow heavy with acid rain, and so on. Hence, if we begin to think beyond the immediate pleasure we gain from bursting blueberries in our mouths, we soon become uncomfortable with ‘aspects of our existence that have remained unconscious for a long time.’ To paraphrase Morton, the ecological thought isn’t like thinking about where our waste goes; it is thinking about where our waste goes.