Canberra Times: We seem to be experiencing a great many crises lately, don’t we? Of those affecting us directly, there is the world financial crisis, the climate change crisis and the Murray-Darling Basin crisis. Even when crises such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters occur elsewhere, the media bring them into our living rooms with such power and immediacy that we cannot help but feel for the people involved. Some crises seem to come and go. A few months back, we had an energy crisis, as the …