The third set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
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Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians
Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic,…
The cartoon showing “Hit it with your Bible” reminds me of the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan’s book of 1995 entitled “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”.
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