Right now almost 30% of Pakistan has been flooded over the last month with 1000 killed, 33 million impacted and 300 000 homes destroyed. Meanwhile China is experiencing the most extreme weather event in history with a record breaking heat wave so intense that it is shutting down industry with immediate impacts on the global economy. In the Ukraine, the impact of Putin’s war has barely begun.
In NZ we are bitching about Te Reo on a chocolate wrapper, a rogue Labour MP, arresting ram raiding teens and arguing over which right wing fantacist we should arrest next.
I just feel that the intensity of the geopolitical external shockwaves about to hit us, might be a tad larger than our ability to comprehend.
Folks, I don’t wanna suggest that we are focusing on petty meaningless shit but, we are focusing on petty meaningless shit.
Now here’s Tom with the weather.
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With regard to Pakistan people fail to realize you can’t increase the population by over double and a nominal increase of 120 million and not expect this will have an impact on climate and weather events. I’m guessing A LOT of trees and other natural features that used to trap water are no longer there, coupled with larger towns closer to flood plains and rivers.
As with China I believe you will find they dammed the hell out of the Yangtze that have effected significantly the amount of water that passes downstream and out to the sea. Sure a drought but again you can’t transform the economy and the environment over a 40 year cycle and not expect some impact.
As for New Zimbabwe – I see the feckless are restless and can’t wait to spill the beans on what Big Sam did on his contiki. Meanwhile we have inter-agency corruption to stop Dumb lives matter journalists entering the country all the while giving dead people a hundred bucks so they can enjoy a Big Mac combo and a packet of Holidays in Heaven. FMD.
We are living in a retarded version of Orwell’s 1984.
Frank the t. Flew over Pakistan about 10 years ago, and it is still vast areas of rural wilderness, more so than India where the night lights doubled as dusk came creeping in. In and outside urban areas, everyday living can still be a stark mix of modernity and medievalism with a philosophical ethos different from us.
In Pakistan precipitation in some regions was 600 percent higher than average, and no amount of missing features that were used to trap water can cope with that or explain why there is excess rain. China has the most severe drought on record so there are bigger atmospheric problems than a few local events.
Martyn can join the dots to see the problems coming & your inability to see past your nose to wider worldwide problems suggests that you live in a selfish bubble.
So an extra 120 million people over 30 years in a country where it is either desert or river plain won’t contribute to flooding. LOL. 5th Form (yes I’m that old) Geography taught you that if you cut down all the trees on the area surrounding a river will bring more water into the fold.
In fairness Year 11 Geography probably now teaches how Maui caught and fished the North Island…….
We were told in the 1990’s Venice would sink and be uninhabitable by the early 2000s.
I’m not saying climate change is not happening however by sensationalizing and exaggerating it we miss the point.
Jeez Frank, say what you mean.
But I digress, excellent analysis!
Pakistan is responsible for 1% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Yet they are taking the brunt of the catastrophe.
“In NZ we are bitching about Te Reo on a chocolate wrapper, a rogue Labour MP, arresting ram raiding teens and arguing over which right wing fantacist we should arrest next.”
A good laugh!!!
How to Be a Woke White Person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSVjmO4iJY
Being a woke white person has become mandatory for many Labour and Green government members as well as woke media around the world.
The dopamine from being woke and virtue signalling on social media, means there is no time for real change and gritty environment, worker and human rights anymore!
For those who are triggered by the above, you can now view the overly-woke support group.
https://vimeo.com/284986055
“When the world ended it wasn’t a surprise. We all knew the world was going to end. What did surprise us was how quickly it ended. We thought we were in the middle of so much but suddenly there was nothing left to be in the middle of.”
Don’t know if hiring a black Mercedes to drive 50 meters across the road to Parliament sets a good example for National voters. Neither does $100,000 donations. Walking or cycling would have been the intelligent thing to do.
Well Whittaker’s is often on sale for $4 at places Countdown for some reason. Actually you can find a 1kg block of cheese for $10 too. Sure it’s not tasty but f*cked if I am going to spend $18.
Speaking of highly processed I see Fonterra have invested in a company trying to grow milk protein. It’s only a matter of time.
Unfortunately, for most of these disasters, like our current wet weather, some idiot in the MSN will reveal that it’s the worst in X years. More unfortunately most don’t realize that means it’s happened before. The drought in Europe revealing carvings saying ‘if you can see this the shit has hit the fan’ is not evidence of global warning, only evidence that it’s happened before.
As for the chocolate hitting the fan, this fake furore will pale into insignificance against the truly masterful attempt by our kindly government to rip off even more money from KiwiSaver.
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