I'm part of the world's oldest living culture, but could I kill a zombie with a boomerang? | Tyson Yunkaporta

The apocalypse has become a running theme in First Nations art and media. So are Indigenous people ready for the end of the world?The Doomsday Clock, used by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists for the last 70 years to indicate the danger level of global nuclear annihilation, was recently moved to "two-and-a-half minutes to midnight". On an Aboriginal timeline, we might recall much older lore about uranium, which warns of a monster that must be left in the ground or it will destroy the earth with fire; or the blue tongue lizard Dreaming story warning about radioactive poison. Continue reading...