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Artists for Human Rights: The Rambler
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Share / EmbedThe Rambler is a satirical character created by the Australian artist Jennifer Wright.
The agricultural industry in Australia is an issue Jennifer feels very strongly about and she contrasts what she considers the abuse of the land with the long traditions of the land management practices of indigenous peoples. The Rambler is a charicature of some of the less well informed attitudes found in the non indigenous farming culture. In this short pieceThe Rambler is claiming that extensive sugar cane monoculture is good for the environment and assists in the battle against global warming whilst traditional practices introduce more carbon into the atmosphere.
Such an idea only really works if you discount completely the damage to the land as a result of monoculture, the cost in carbon of the production of fertilisers and pesticides, the cost in carbon of the manufacture and refinement of sugar and the cost in carbon of the distribution of the end product. Even when you ignore all of these factors, you still have to massively exaggerate the impact on carbon emission by indigenous land management through the use of fire to believe that monoculture crops on an industrial scale are good for the environment.
All around the world indigenous lands are under threat and the human rights of indigenous peoples suppressed in favour of commercial interest.
relevant links:Indigenous Land management Facilitator Network
Indigenous People Caring for the Land
Emerging diseases in plants due to monoculture
Conditions of unsustainability in the Australian sugar industry
Ian Drummond
Jennifer Wright is a life long active supporter of indigenous rights and an environmentalist. Living in Toowoomba following her artistic passions, she has been a supporter of Human Rights TV and one of the inspirations behind its creation.
Email: cohesion@bigpond.net.au, voodoorini@hotmail.com
Availability: Part-time.
Services offered: Editing, magazines, photography, project management, research, writing.
Special interests: CD-ROMs, children’s books, educational books (secondary), mathematics, sciences.
Experience: In-house freelance project editor John Wiley & Sons since 1999. Editor University of Southern Queensland Press 1993–97. Research and production of educational materials with Queensland Department of Education 1983–92. Australian Broadcasting Corporation liaison officer 1979–82. President Society of Editors (Queensland) 2002–04. Course writer and tutor: Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland since 2002.
Qualifications: BSc, MEdSt (University of Queensland).
Special skills: Magazine, textbook and CD-ROM editing, project management, an artist’s eye for combining text and visual material, creativity, digital video production, relating maths and science to everyday life, finding ways to engage students.
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