Communities across the top of the South Island are dealing with a mega clean-up task ahead, following last week’s deluge.
Homes in Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough have been let uninhabitable, roads are damaged and properties have been inundated with flood waters.
Rural Support Trust Top of the South chairperson Richard Kempthorne said the destruction was significant.
“The damage is looking huge, so there are a lot of people, particularly on the Motueka, but also the Wai-iti River where the river has gone wide and very high and caused a lot of damage.”
Here’s the truth.
The Right know climate change is real and they know it is catastrophic and while they feed you bullshit and claim any real analysis of what’s coming is ‘alarmism’, they are quietly plotting against your interests…
New Zealand climate report: Home owners face risks as buy-outs phase out, expert warns
…that’s right, fuck you if you are impacted by climate change.
Sure, the petrol companies knew and lied and hid the truth of global warming since the 1990s, and sure every right wing Government has done everything to ensure the biggest polluters were left unscathed, so now the real impacts are being felt, go fuck yourself dumb Kiwi!
You understand you are being played now this report is out right?
The catastrophic climate change the Polluters and politicians knew was coming will now be dumped on you and you alone.
Shhhh, keep voting for National, ACT and NZF sleepy hobbits.
There is a point when your rage at what they’ve done will finally motivate you to stand on your feet and fight back.
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Note, as homes and roads get damaged by storms and floods, another one comes before homes and roads are restored. As the storms and floods increase, the backlog of restoration increases. This will mean an exponential rise in repair activity until that is all GDP will represent.
Mmm … who then makes the claim that climate change is the key factor in the increasing frequency and intensity of severe weather events?
Just one correction Bomber. Oil companies knew since the early 1980s at least (rather than the 90s).
Sorry this is long but I haven’t time to set it up as a guest blog or what I should do, have to rush but wanted to put down my thoughts and references while the topic was hot!
Thanks Paul B we need to have the unpleasant truth presented. School holidays are just finished and no doubt all the middle class are out and about living the dream. How to get them to bite the bullet before there are real ones shooting about more regularly requires doses of medicine smuggled into their meeting places, perhaps some business psychology with the object of them buying the message, getting some return for fronting up to their vaccination of unpleasant knowledge – no more avoidance. And all knowing about Donald Rumsfeld previous
USA Secretary of Defence’s well-known speech that delves into our minds with a torch and pickaxe!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
Rumsfeld gave [an answer] to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups.[1] Rumsfeld stated:
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.[1]
Further under Historical Context – …over two millenia ago Socrates considered known unknowns and unknown unknowns.[23]..[Thomas Aquinas is also referred to.]
… well-known proverb about knowledge:- He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple. Teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.
This has been widely quoted[28] since the 19th century as (for example) an anonymous Persian,[29][30] Arabic,[31][32] African,[33] Japanese,[34] Oriental[35] or simply an old[36] proverb, or attributed to authors ranging from Confucius[37] to Bruce Lee.[38] The proverb is actually a close translation (with line order reversed) of al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi’s 780CE? medieval epigram… [CE Common Era used for Gregorian calendar – same as AD] Are we learning something?
There have been wise advices since Adam – why can’t we geniuses carry this knowledge forward? Or are we so economically twisted that we enter Carried forward at the end of dealings but do not actually do the Brought forward to the new page. The information is left floating, not in real cognition; needing recognition. But AI will know it, so all the twisted economic players out there may be hornswoggled, to use a term lacking in affectation!
Damn Zizek! He thinks too hard, (for our ease of mind). He is quoted under Reaction in the post. Psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Žižek says that beyond these three[?] categories there is a fourth, the unknown known, that which one intentionally refuses to acknowledge that one knows: “If Rumsfeld thinks that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the ‘unknown unknowns’, that is, the threats from Saddam whose nature we cannot even suspect, then the Abu Ghraib scandal shows that the main dangers lie in the “unknown knowns”—the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values.”[16]
To help in our thinking and understanding and learning we could learn more by reading the post about the Johari window. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window
We must think differently to how we did in the 20th century as that has led us to our present imbroglio. So if you don’t like where we are now, then try different perspectives, methods, FGS. There isn’t much time to catch and hold the good stuff. In the absence of our own intelligent thoughts AI will fill, and may be good or bad, but will we have brain resource to judge??
By the way – clever image. Whoever did that thought up and did very effective pic.
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