Ummm, isn’t it time to start being honest about the climate crisis?
I’ve been following the IPCC reports on climate change from the beginning, and the criticism made against the IPCC was that due to its strict need for only unilaterally agreed science to make the official report, it was always underplaying the urgency and severity of the climate crisis.
There was always a section in each report where the science was presented that wasn’t universally accepted but included to show the reach and scope of debate.
Increasingly over the years, the worst case scenarios in the IPCC are playing out in real time.
The scientists were wrong, but only in their optimism.
You understand that each year that passes now will get worse or remain as starkly bad as they are now right?
You get that it doesn’t go back to normal after this right?
The extreme weather will get worse and worse.
More extreme than these extremes now.
Consider this baseline extreme normal now.
Sure the war run Ukraine is hurting food prices, but that’s damage on the baseline reality of a mega drought that has interrupted the agricultural calendar of major food producers.
The radical adaptation required to get us ready for what’s coming will splinter the political spectrum whether we like it or not.
Why shouldn’t we have our own basic pharmaceutical industry?
Engineering industry.
Industrial industry.
The supply side shocks caused by Covid and war are not going away, and they are being compounded by catastrophic climate change.
Radical adaptation and communal community resourcing alongside a Big State approach to lynchpin infrastructure for basic self-reliance as an Island country facing enormous economic shockwaves is the only means to build the muscle mass to respond to the ever intensifying external disruption of late stage capitalism.
The need to increase military spending to 3% alongside the new costs for this infrastructure must be funded via new taxes aimed at corporations and banks.
A financial transaction tax and windfall profit tax would take the yoke of taxation off working people and place it upon the shoulders of the wealthy.
National and ACT see mass immigration as a means to create fake growth at a time when we should be focused on de-growth.
Climate Crisis is here and adaptation is now.
We need to start rethinking Isolationism as a strength and Think Big as Economic Sovereignty.
The geopolitical shock waves are only getting more intense.
If you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is the solution, you are the problem.
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Nathan I don’t know why you come here because you don’t want to learn anything, use your time to prepare for the future and help others work out ways to do so. If you just want to deny the concerning things discussed, then you take a superior position as if you were the know-all and we are children. Don’t waste your time.
I came here from The Standard because there is far too much time spent there discussing whether we need deck chairs, or where to place them, instead of thinking about the real problems. The discussion tends to get circular, and the result is implosion or…? Informed wide thinking discussion is needed – why don’t you do an on-line study course on something like Khan Academy on a skill or topic that you do want to know about. That would be useful to you and to all of us who are trying to make the transition to knowing, helping themselves and those close, and also the wider
community.
In my internet random education I have learned that if I want to know the thinking of simple, direct minds of males I should look at ‘urban dictionary’, remembering that they are usually sex-oriented. One entry for going in circles, I won’t pass on. But this quote covers what I fear from useless and futile argument and I think in future I should go to The Free Dictionary first!
circle the drain
To be in a state of severe deterioration such that one is approaching inevitable ruin, failure, or death. Usually used in the continuous form. The company’s closure was inevitable, as it has been circling the drain for the last six months.
Circling the drain – Idioms by The Free Dictionary
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com › circling+the+drain
Hei where’s the moderation? Some totally immature and derogatory comments here.
who is in charge of this site ?
You said If you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is the solution, you are the problem. No. China is the problem. Building evermore coal fired power stations