I've often wondered what would happen if "Life as we know it." came to an end. Meaning if there was no more electricity or petrol/gas etc. Would man survive & for how long?

Well, I think most of "man" would die off in 3 to 6 months, through disease, hunger, & fighting, etc.

Who would survive & for how long? The Dooms dayers would for a year or two, maybe.

The people that would survive & thrive would be the Bush Indigenous in Outback Australia, in the jungles & deserts of Africa, the Jungles of South East Asia & in the Jungles of South America. In fact anywhere where modern civilization hasn't reached.

I don't think the Western idea of a high IQ would work for us very well in that situation.

Just a thought whilst staring at my navel.

John Pilger has written what we have already known. Nothing new at all ... Rehashed information presented as new with all the flourish of evangelism ...

However, unless Pilger suggests a solution, he is part of the problem.

Maybe It's not the White Community, but the Indigenous Community that has a self imposed apartheid.

Anyway in todays news.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/24/uncapping-university-places-no-help-indigenous-rural-remote-students

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/call-for-doubling-of-aboriginal-university-student-numbers-20120914-25w7s.html

http://www.academia.edu/3572923/Indigenous_Higher_Education_The_Role_of_Universities_in_Releasing_the_Potential

Some people hate whatever the Guardian has to say so I included the SMH& Acadenia, for balance.

Couple of fact checks:

Charles Perkins was in the 3rd year of his degree when he went on the freedom rides; he had not graduated.

Perkins freely admitted he was not the instigator or leader of the freedom rides. He was elected president of SAFA after the concept of the rides had been decided upon.

Children are not being 'stolen'. To say so invokes images of the Stolen Generations, which was part of the assimilation program in many states. That is not happening. One wonders if Pilger has ever read the 'Little Children are Sacred' report or the radio interview transcript with Nanette Rogers.

Pilger fails to mention those in remote communities, such as Bess Price, who support many of the Intervention (Stronger Futures) initiatives. He prefers to present his 'whites are evil' mantra despite its obvious flaws.

There is no doubt many remote communities and their people are suffering but Pilger's bleating of half-truths does nothing to help them. He could be accused of ego stroking and presenting a completely biased view.

Minator,

"He could be accused of ego stoking ...etc ...

Couldn't agree more. But this has been and remains his 'holier than thou' pattern ...

White Australians like me (and many poster's on this site) consistently fail to appreciate the depth of the problems that have been inflicted on Aboriginal Australia. Plenty of Indigenous Australians in the Outback are living in less than 3rd World conditions. I've been there and seen them - I'd recommend more people go to Alice Springs and hang out there for awhile to get a bit of an introduction. Most Australians would be shocked to see what daily life is like Outback for people whose forebears watched the arrival of the first boat people in the late 18th century.
Why do we have such an over supply of analysis but at the same time, a terrible lack of practical solutions?
Pilger is right to raise the issues, but surely a lack of working solutions to the problems faced by the original Australians is the elephant-not-in-the-room of current Australian thinking.