Look, I appreciate all white people are racist, all men are evil and anyone in support of free speech is a Nazi – but the planet is melting…
Human-induced global heating ‘causes over a third of heat deaths’
Between 1991 and 2018, human activity contributed to 37% of all heat-related deaths in locations studied
Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west
US Pacific north-west and Canada see soaring temperatures and drought fuels flames as crisis illustrates climate breakdown
… The largest student climate change protest group in NZ last month cancelled itself in a ritualistic wokeocide because of historic racism and in recognition of woke dogma that that all white people are irredeemable racists.
While the identity politics clique continue to find ways to undermine solidarity in their ever grim critical race theory roulette of wounds and grievance, the planet melts.
The only winners by self mutilating broad church climate crisis protest movements for identity politics dogma are the polluters causing climate change.
The ferocity of the climate and constant science updates showing the worst case scenarios are becoming the only scenario is going to force a reckoning.
We either accept the future will be vastly more hostile with devastating climate events cascading constantly causing mass climate refugee movements and failed states or we pretend technology and recycling is going to save us.
I believe the former is going to happen and it will demand a radical reshape of our economy and military positioning.
The speed of tipping points makes this a 10 year transition.
Endlessly fighting over identity politic hierarchy when the fate of our planet is at stake seems remarkably egotistical.
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Indeed
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/30/bombshell-secret-footage-exxonmobil-lobbyists-sparks-calls-action-congress
“These recordings should be played on every TV station in the world.”
From that link:
While ExxonMobil’s decades of sowing public doubt about climate science and the impact of fossil fuels have provoked various lawsuits, secretly recorded videos released Wednesday expose how the company continues to fight against U.S. efforts to tackle climate emergency.
Published by Unearthed, Greenpeace U.K.’s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News, the footage of ExxonMobil lobbyists sparked new calls for congressional action to hold the oil and gas giant accountable.
The videos, obtained by Unearthed reporters posing as recruitment consultants, feature Keith McCoy, a senior director in ExxonMobil’s Washington, D.C. government affairs team, and Dan Easley, who was a senior director for federal relations until leaving the company for a clean technologies firm earlier this year.
“In the midst of a deadly heatwave, the Exxon Tapes show how Exxon’s climate lies have spanned from outright denial to puppeteering our government and economy,” said Lindsay Meiman, 350.org’s U.S. communications manager. “Exxon knew and lied about the climate crisis for decades, and our communities are bearing the costs.”
“As the window for action quickly closes, this footage proves what we’ve known all along—Exxon continues to deliberately block necessary climate action to skirt accountability,” Meiman added. “We demand Congress immediately investigate Exxon and fossil fuel companies’ climate crimes, and make polluters pay for their destruction.” …Full article at the link.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/125597783/government-green-lights-companies-to-search-for-new-fossil-fuels-in-taranaki–and-could-do-again-in-2022
Climate Change Minister James Shaw declined to comment.
Fuck the greens.
They are the Greens in name only. They are a party of socialists and racists.
Wish we had a green party that would work with both sides of parliament.
Well James is being taken to court, apparently, along with the entire Climate Commission?
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/major-legal-challenge-against-climate-commission
From The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world …
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand …
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Apparently free speech is only allowable for white racists?
The mouthpiece for free speech David Seymour voted against the Maori Party to have a voice on the yearly Budget statement and by P.M. addresses.
This is the same member that cross party support allowed him to do just that. Apparently the Maori party doesn’t have the numbers across NZ to allow them voice in parliament, even though Seymour was gifted a seat in parliament several years back and didn’t have the votes to bring a second ACT member in. Now Seymour has 10 in his party, he is the voice of authority on free speech. All other parties voted for the Maori to have voice except ACT. This from the free speech promoter. The man makes a fool of himself daily.
Cause he is a slimy worm that is trying to be relevant his ten seats will be gone at the next election.
Unfortunately it appears the reason for the Fermi Paradox is self induced climate change.
It appears to be one part of the simulation we cannot get past.
There is no Fermi paradox. Millions of people have been experiencing regular abductions for decades. In 1989 Linda Cortile was abducted from her Manhattan apartment and 35 people witnessed the ship and her being floated up into it, including 3 NYPD police officers. Try telling me THAT was just a dream of hers or that they were all for some reason lying. Even last week the US govt finally admitted that there are 140 UFO cases where the most logical explanation is that they were extraterrestrial. Stop pretending there’s some Fermi paradox. We’re being visited regularly. Accept that reality and demand truth from our governments instead of mocking those who try to share the truth with you.
Have you noticed that more people die in winter than summer? 😉
Have you noticed more people die in storms and floods and droughts and fires which are increasing with climate change?
Deaths from climate related events have fallen from almost 500,000 to around 25,000 over the past hundred years. That’s despite a much larger population. The risk to an individual has fallen by 99%. You’re welcome to your beliefs, there’s no need to just make stuff up.
https://fee.org/articles/climate-related-deaths-are-at-historic-lows-data-show/
Identity politics really took off after social media became the number one way of reaching people.
social media itself is a huge data collector and who says facebook etc don’t just sell your data (or give it for free) to the cops? After all they own every single thing you post on their sites.
what if social media was in fact co-opted by the elite?
It certainly is working well to keep the elite at the top and everyone else fighting each other
Interesting comment. It’s obvious that we, as a whole are trying to grapple with social media. It has been a part of our lives for such a short period of time, especially in the scheme of things when talking about the human species.
We all trying to fudge our way through it, and the irony is that the what has helped bring so many together, is tearing so many apart. Most of us are old enough to remember life before social media and as much as I enjoy being in contact with friends and family far away, if I had the choice I wish it never existed, and not sure I’m the only one.
Well just turn it off, I hear you say. Not so simple, I don’t have Twitter or Instagram, rarely use FB, only messenger for group chats. But all media outlets are embedded with social media. Nearly all news comes from someone’s Twitter fed or Instagram post, so if one wants to be “informed” one is swamped only with 30 second social sound bites.
The irony of disagreeing with each other, pre social media, I think it was never personal, or as personal. You’d “agree to disagree” have a beer and carry on. Now, because of social media you can disagree with someone, then set out to destroy them.
Even the fighting was cleaner back the day!
Gosh no sign of Jacinda and Marama saying sorry for the torture of children in NZ or having any enquiry until made to by the UN. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300147363/royal-commission-solicitor-general-denies-lengthy-legal-action-used-to-wear-down-survivors?rm=a I’m sure that electric shocks to the genitals of Maori, PI and Pakeha children are not worthy of much endless sympathy and media like other stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRkm07XnwY
Any law changes in NZ and apologies always seem to lead back to keeping the neoliberal migration and free trade going great guns and it being a crime to disagree, then using stories like CHCH terror and Dawn raids to push that agenda in a cynical way, but local children and victims of torture don’t get the time of day.
The hate crimes speech is being used as an agenda to push more government surveillance, armed police especially in South Auckland , and to stop free speech under their watch, not to create better human rights – which when convenient are swept under the carpet by Greens and Labour when it does not fit the narrative like torture of children at Lake Alice which doesn’t ‘sell’ NZ assets to foreigners.
Forget about torture in NZ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445998/merry-xmas-mr-key-your-friend-president-xi, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sir-john-keys-former-parnell-mega-mansion-sits-empty-and-neglected/JILMLPHL2BGZJTBD5CQ7NHAG5E/. Jacinda also keen to turn a blind eye. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/11/sorry-to-the-uighurs-jacinda-ardern-puppet-sings-about-china-trade-deal-in-savage-new-spitting-image-skit.html
So much talk about the environment so little action and in many cases creating the problem that another committee group/ change in entity that Labour and Greens seem fond of rather than actually their own actions in signing off much of the destruction through overpopulation and poor controls of industry in NZ.
“The shameful truth is that today, Marine Protected Areas make up just 0.4% of New Zealand waters. This is despite the NZ Government’s international commitment to establish no-take reserves in 10% of our waters by 2020. The current legislative tools for marine protection are inadequate. The 50-year-old Marine Reserves Act of 1971 has not kept pace with the relationship developments and expectations between the Crown and Treaty Partners, and wider society. At the time of publishing this article, in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, there are six small marine reserves constituted under the Marine Reserves Act 1971, covering only 0.3% of the Park. Only one of these has been created this century.”
https://www.thenoises.nz/2021/06/17/the-privilege-and-responsibility-of-the-noises-marine-restoration-project/
Under neoliberalism the polluters get more money and more subsidies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_LjMsr8gU https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445996/documents-reveal-government-s-multi-million-offer-to-rio-tinto-despite-ruling-out-a-subsidy and indemnity for the clean up.
David Seymour has the best ideas on this topic and nearly every other topic currently being debated.
He’s concise and not diverted or preoccupied by ancient history but commenting on current issues providing current solutions.
All the ridiculous references to capitalism and fascism is pathetic.
We are Kiwis, New Zealanders we don’t want all this bullshit getting in the way of rational decision making.
How many fascists live in your suburb I venture none.
With lil ole NZs 0.17% emissions, there’s duck all that we can do with our little island nation at the bottom of the world.
Most of the worlds consumers live in the northern hemisphere.
The demand cheap products that are made in the Asian Hub, basically migrating and exporting their emissions off shore!
If any nation(s) are to do something about it, that has to be them polluting fuckers.
Misrepresenting people and adopting the language of Fox News ain’t going to help the situation either. Can you *please* stop saying “woke”? You sound like Don fucking Brash. It makes us hate you and not listen to your actual points.
Misrepresenting the woke’s terrifying ideological dogma is wrong? And if I keep pointing out how cult like their pathology is you will hate me and not listen?
Ummmmmmm aren’t you proving my point?
Yes. It has become a slur and ludicrous attack on anyone Bomber disagrees with. He must be feeling happy that the right have adopted it now. Name calling never changed a single soul’s view and is shallow as a puddle.
You’ve definitely been abducted and probed by aliens, Joff .. and don’t even seem to realise it. Maybe you’re one of the pod people.
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