While Kiwis scream about Te Reo signs, the planet melts
Record-breaking heat, flooding, wildfires and monsoons are slamming the world. It’s only just begun.
Boiling heat and raging floods have taken the world by storm this week, plummeting millions of people across the world into dangerous and deadly conditions. But it’s not a temporary trip of bad luck – it is becoming the new norm.
The heat waves causing record temperatures, storms dumping record rain on cities and wildfires raging across thousands of acres of land are all the impact of an undeniable source: climate change.
Just last week, preliminary data showed that the world had its hottest week on record, following the hottest June on record. El Niño is believed to have spawned the latest events as it comes at the onset of warmer sea surface temperatures, but experts have warned that the current situation won’t suddenly vanish when El Niño departs.
“We are in uncharted territory and we can expect more records to fall as El Niño develops further and these impacts will extend into 2024,” said Christopher Hewitt, head of international climate services for the World Meteorological Organization. “This is worrying news for the planet.”
In a news release Thursday, the WMO highlighted issues that included heat waves causing sweltering conditions in areas around the U.S. to North Africa.
What we are seeing right now is unprecedented. The super heating of the planet cause by human pollution is finally here.
This is the reality of our future now, a reality that the right wing have refused to acknowledge, a reality Big Oil lied about, a reality that National, ACT and Federated Farmers lie and deceive about, a reality that has finally caught up with our denial.
While the planet melts – NZ loses its shit over fucking bilingual road signs!
We are a petty, tiny people with a low horizon imagination and we deserve the looming apocalypse.
The inevitability of Fortress Aotearoa is the only future. We are locked into these changes now and we are in the age of consequences.
They are consequences none of the Political Parties are focused upon.
We will ultimately reap what we have sown.
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Lucky we still have the Greens 😉
Says the dirty filthy Rat from the comfort of N.Z.
Te Reo road signs are likely another diversionary tactic from the divide and rule brigade; whether it’s from the politicians or the public servants who tell them what to do is anybody’s guess.
Growth, growth, growth, everybody’s talking about growth. Nobody’s talking about degrowth or zero growth, or deindustrialisation, which is the only real answer to our survival now as a species (as well as the survival of all other species, our evolutionary partners who’ve been here way before us).
Homo Sapiens and their myriad of ancestors lived on this planet for 1.5 million years quite well and mostly in harmony with nature before we started digging up those fucking fossil fuels and burning them in factories to make endless varieties of junk to fuel consumer capitalism.
Deindustrialisation is going to happen regardless anyway, but not in a controlled and, dare I say it, urgent way, that may allow us to limit the heating of the next three hundred or so years and possibly survive. No, we’re too feral a species for that. It will only happen as a result of the incineration of the living planet. Brace for impact as Guy McPherson likes to say.