FRIDAYS FOR CLIMATE

You could not find anywhere such a bunch of neo-absurdist sub-editorial junk as this primary-schoolers’* “The poor cute animals” #MadAsHell Shaun Micallef/ Chris Lorax crowd of latté sippers in paper cups/ avocado smashing leafy suburban characters’ w…Show. – Lorax is a supposed satiric character. #comedy has been virtually dead in our country for 30 years – it’s in the keep of pranksters, mostly affluent college-boys, at Morrison’s & Buttrose’s frankly ludicrous frozen-in-time (Hawke-Keating era) #ABC.

Since the only tools human beings have at their disposal to effect radical change in culture and economy are linguistic it is important to note that Australia is indeed in a 1980s – or perhaps even a 1950’s immediate post World War 2/ Marshall Plan era – time warp where public communications of all kinds especially news are thought to be matters for some bizarre neo-Freudian quasi-Shakespearean Renaissance-Man heroic folksy kiddie-cartoon narrative of mastery over all creatures great and small where student protests are only evaluated on their showbiz “production values” (colour, movement, singing & goofing off by screen-manageable groups of up to 25): NO reference is made to content or human – or animal, bird or fish – life & death policy matters at all (except by interviewees poor sad old rich people will enjoy sneering at), BUT business is business, technology is for experts and health is for the doctors & professors of medicine. So you will kindly not challenge or question any of the empowered political class on their quarter-million dollar & upwards incomes and least of all, last of all, the most dimwitted and cognitively challenged elite of book keepers, courtiers & acolytes (these are Sucks, in common parlance) ever to draw breath – and their inflated salaries – the neo Keynesian Friedmanite market economists under strict riding instructions from the gross accumulators, major accounting firms & c-c-crazy Dr Strangeloves of this half-broken world. And as these supply & demand free-market & adjusted interest rates monkeys assure us that fresh water & oxygenated air are in boundless inelastic supply and that all bad things like 500-year floods. coastal inundation, fires, droughts, 47-50 degrees C summer days, radioactivity-, plastics- & toxic synthetic farm/ domestic chemicals contamination, incomprehensibly vast man-made chemicals pollution, plunging fresh-water aquifer levels, dying eutrophic rivers & wetlands including the greatest on earth that in net quanta no longer absorb carbon dioxide or generate oxygen, Category 5 storms, ever more rapidly evolving virulent (even lethal) viruses, extreme poverty, food shortage, starvation and mass migrations..

..WILL magically evaporate under clinically psychotic neoliberal belief/ carpetbagger robber-baron gross-accumulator government funding policy – outrageous fiscal handouts and tax exemptions, of course, but also flatly genocidal ecocidal post Bretton Woods 1944 monetarism and its now completely exploded derivatives markets for all those satanic rentiers on earth who crave the 1890’s London ‘Bloomsbury Set’ or “Roaring Twenties” orgiastic patrician or aristoi lifestyle.

We teach our innocent kids that all environmental evils and lethal disruption, right down to air with sufficient oxygen for breathing (not mentioned above but shortly coming to a theatre near you & me), will go away if only we working people and leaners like assets-poor age pensioners (obviously not clever or intelligent enough to be millionaires and therefore to be harshly judged – well let’s face it, condemned under this new economic order – in this broken world of Trumpian Evangelical Christian neofascism – would try harder – summoning up a fortitude, a #resilience, an #adaptation, structurally adjusting ourselves on the recommended International Monetary Fund lines and evincing a #capacity #building #power usually defeated by our native indolence & laziness – if we would seek, strive, find and not yield until we had mitigated or ameliorated these multifarious but utterly mysterious divine global heating impacts, or indeed rather accept ostracism, exile, home-invasions, random road-rage assaults by other battlers or, dammit, just lie down and die, OK?

Thus we go about our forlorn public duties, not for example trashing entire river systems, wetlands, riparian & marine hatcheries, pioneer-zone & mangrove ecosystems in toto and, er, reefs, which means we get into even more trouble with this zany postmodern neoliberal authoritaryans & their tribe of insanely overpaid political class hatchet-people. Our economists and the noted education reformers Christopher Pyne, Alan Tudge, Dan Tehan, Bridget McKenzie & Stuart Robert did not say this would be easy work and we are of course grateful for their advices. What, Nationals business creep Larry Anthony’s Indue cards? The front of my house sprayed with automatic fire? Again?? Gets a bit rocky, hmm?

Toughen up Princess.

In this culturally re-engineered and politically corrected space, where protest against the man-made global heating apocalypse rapidly and more commonly exponentially or “feedback-loop” unfolding* as 10,000 year-old wet-dry hot-cold weather systems correct atmospheric heating with retarded movement east with the rotation of the earth (as all currents atmospheric & oceanic are warmed up, weakened, or in this hemisphere shifted southward (SAM/ AO since the massive warm air updraft above Antarctica of Spring 2019 at the exact historical moment the subsoil moisture loss, vegetation desiccation and huge ambient heat fires of 2019-20 began) is greeted by official anger, hostility and crude censorship befitting a Third Word military autocracy, women & their bodies give rise to much public controversy & darker skinned people, non-evangelicals and children/ teens who dare venture an opinion about the future viability of life on earth – all of it or any specific micro aspect of it – are problematised, otherised & excluded or even judicially excised from all or any public conversation!

Astoundingly at a moment in #history as this #SARSCoV2 + say 7-8,000 year-old stable and reliable #weather #systems failure, #Mariupol & rising worldwide hatred & contempt for neofascism & its bedmate unregulated/ disregulated neoliberalism tears at the hearts of 3 or 6 billion people, the morally unanchored & largely intellectually bereft Australian political class has spent 2 weeks now on a dull right-wing MP & factional warrior who died suddenly at 52 – riveting schoolyard Sky News questions like why were people mean to her? Jesus would have surely wept copious tears for early 21st century Australia.

In this same utterly explosive period on top of the East Coast floods and the Lismore calamity, the leader of the party about to be swept into power if only it had policies it was unafraid to present – or even had the essential technical grasp of policy areas especially #energy – a proposed “World’s Best Ever” NET (phoney, that is) 43% C emit-to-atmosphere reduction over NINE years from a report by a media-massaging outfit called Reputech – literally ‘reputation protecting’ – the “43” derived on Mr Albanese’s own admission from a new JOBS Target of 604k – but in point of accurate #historical #fact made 2% less than publicly-rejected CMMFEU muppet, #climate denialist & damaged Australian Labor Party goods Bill Shorten’s May 2019 assertion of 45% so as not to alarm wealthy old voters afflicted by short-term memory loss or other symptoms of vascular dementia.

Albanese is shy about Australia’s rooftop solar figures, which are phenomenal, & truly world leading – and will likely get us to a 43% cut to atmospheric devastation – at least HALF of what we need to escape a 2degrees + Celsius rise in average temperatures.

– No technical information either of a home batteries subsidy announced last year of the tech which is ONLY wind, solar and battery, and alas the appalling gas transition for the fiscally endangered gas reliant Snowy Mountains Hydro & the ludicrous internationally offensive Kurri Kurri pork barrel, Newcastle. Technical facts are considered too bewildering for voters. But every 12-year-old kid in Australia is excited by futures. – Although catastrophically kids are still being taught the Carl Sagan pseudo-#science of “no-single-weather-event-may- be-attributed-to-global-heating” and the even more deranged solopsistic nonsense (reinforced by Tory cranks in positions of political-class influence like the former Howard government attorney-general & Ambassador to the Holy See Amanda Vanstone) to the effect that “burning-fossil-fuels-is-not-only-cause-of-[global heating]”..

So that’s the national scorecard on what #Instagram, #Facebook & #Tumblr time wasters, doodlers & business criminals the world over love calling by its sneaky ambiguous greenwashing*** name “climate-change,” with special inescapable irreversible reference to #AGH..

But wait, the failure and corruption of professional journalism & honesty in public life encompasses food & agriculture, genuine research dedicated to the advancement of human society, truly bad science, public health, mental health AND economic reform..

But no, we obedient kiddie ‘Behind the News’ “Triple J” (a rich kids radio network) – or Anne Ruston or Sarah Henderson Sunday School children – get more stuff reminiscent of 1930’s Victorian ALP working class historical struggle or irrelevant 1980’s assertions on behalf of misconceived & unexplained “#jobs #growth” – 1 hour a week for $8, my dears – all the while chatting with daytime television & podcast clowns, unwatchable dopes & misanthropes..

Are we Australians completely crackers?

#apocalypse #fraud – #scienceandtechnology #publicsector #corruption #neoliberalism #impactful #globalleadership #globalbusiness #globalhealth & #globaleconomy #catastrophes

*pity the kids & rue the #mentalhealthandwellbeing #nuclear #scale #health AND #healthcareindustry #crisis as it unfolds – down every street & in every family

** eg the five hurricanes in quick succession arising in the hot -water Caribbean in Fall 2016

*** choose your own expletive – this writer got a 7-day @Twitter suspension for the humorous suggestion that a barking-mad climate-causation contrarian in California & the notorious reverse-rotating eyeballs #SciFi man Sen Rand Paul ought to do the world an enormous estimable favor and ponder voluntary self removal from its geographical domain