With respect, but a bit of a correction, Curmudgeon. You are referring to the Zoroastrians from Persia who happen to have some members living in India, not to an Indian sect. They are often considered to be the forerunners of the monotheistic religions which swept the world about 2500 years ago. It pre-dated Judaism and her two offspring, Christianity and Islam.
Their Towers of Silence were, and are, used as a way of exposing their dead to birds of prey, and they have been doing it this way for centuries.
But you are right that the vultures are dying. Some think it might be AIDS, others toxic overload. Either way, to stand under a Tower of Silence is a bit like standing under an eagle's nest. The reek of raw meat on the turn is slightly overpowering.

Julian, don't worry about the knockers. They are too stupid to realize that poisoning ourselves and everything else on Earth is counterproductive.

I thank you for your fine though alarming article! Intelligent people will appreciate your truth-telling.

Idiots and Flat-Earthers will ridicule it!

The logic of the argument goes like this:

1. State the problem in hyperbole terms but don’t use sources.
2. Reduce the problem to the personal eg, 1.4 kilos per person.
3. Say the problem is getting worse.
4. Link the problem to a well known evil ‘Agent Orange’ in an unpopular war to give it a moral dimension – talk about children.
5. Introduce systems theory so that we’re knee deep in chemicals (not shown).
6. Link to pregnant women in developing nations (what about the children?)
7. Introduce spurious claim that 86 million people each year are disabled by chemicals.
8. Make link to heart disease in the west.
9. Attack mining and energy industry.
10. Make bizarre claim about Alzheimers (simply untrue – it’s a prion disease caused by bending proteins)
11. Hold up Carson’s Silent Spring as the new Bible.
12. Make motherhood claim for consumers to boycott capitalism

For your assignments tonight please discuss the use of validity in arguments and show where there might be flaws in this structure by Dr Cribb.

As both an idiot and flat earther, I cannot but applaud the comments of Spindoc and Leo Lane. Directly to the point and succinctly accurate.

I cant believe people can read Cribb's efforts and dismiss them as if their are no serious environmental concerns around. There are. I thank Cribb for addressing an issue which gets much less airtime by Australia's media.

The deniers will be pleased to hear we have just entered a new phase of global cooling: Sydney has recorded its highest temperature so until we top that things will be showing a downward trend.