October
25
/ 2019
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, Agent Smith said that when trying to classify our species it came to him we are “A virus, a disease, a cancer of this planet, a plague” eating up all the natural resources; and you need look no further than what’s been happening at Uluru, aka Ayers Rock, in Australia to consider this a very valid social observation. Uluru’s Last Climber ABC News reports that “Anangu traditional owners celebrated at the base of the rock as a new sign was set up notifying visitors the climb was permanently closed.” The traditional landowner community has been waiting 34 years for this closure to take place. They also spoke to Uluru’s last legal climber, James Martin
