@DoctorVive: So I’m 6 days into Covid, my brain feels like cottage cheese, but I still want to try to say something about this permitting bill & the way that climate politics seems to be shaking out after the fade-away……

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Nationalism, historicism, tokenism & cultural ceremonialism, ideationally or ideologically underpinned by a solipsism which does not even acknowledge (let alone accept or try to understand) that which it cannot see, hear, taste, touch, smell or sense, a literalism takes that takes ringing phrases & solemn incantations to be proclaimed by/ of a spectral extraterrestrial “organism” which is simultaneously present or immanent in the granular composition of all things in the troposphere (and underground?) and an objectivism clinging haplessly to what may only be the mental detritus of the reptilian brain stem of cretaceous (chalky) origin – unqualified or un-nuanced by ANY intelligent reflective thought as large-brained animals enjoy (typically generated in the right cerebral hemisphere), even at the beginning of the 21st Century Anno Domini as living things are existentially threatened by radical disruption to ocean currents, mid-atmosphere air streams and the retarded eastward movement of weather-systems, this bizarre human #Apocalyptic false consciousness insists upon a necessary fundamental material dialectic of Man-managed global biosphere and Earth-centred Universe.

Thus in the morally, intellectually, technically and sociologically bankrupt terms of late 19th Century Socratic chattering-class/ Oxford Union debating scholarly pedantic #philosophy the sufficient became the necessary and obeying the stern if not genocidal Abrahamic sky-wizard we all set about learning the true names of things. There was no ecology or environs only jumbled chaotic & essentially conflictual #internet #information – which as emeritus professor Noam Chomsky says amounts to bulldozing data & #information about and would therefore strictly be difficult to even honestly categorise as valid #human #knowledge..

..Hootenanny, whoopdi-doodle, Poodle, let’s trash the joint.

Burn 🔥 Baby 🔥 Burn.. “The Fire Next Time,’ James Baldwin 1963

..”Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” movie 1989

Students may wish to look up Manicheanism, humanity’s radical departure from ancestral indigenous people’s Gaian Lovelockian* spiritual animism that engendered and animated ‘bi-polarised’ “Age of Enlightenment” philosophy with René Descartes in the 17th Century – now alas transformed into the carbon credits & “offsets” (figurative “🦄-orgasms,” a renowned comic has noted) of #McKinsey #PwC #EY #KPMG #Econometrics: the post #BrettonWoods Marshall Plan-#Europe #USA #IMF #OECD #wef #WorldBank #BourlagGreenRevolution Paul Samuelson micro supply & demand #economics gone #global and therefore feral systematic misrepresentatation of natural phenomena by numbers with its obvious rampant linear/ limbic/ paleo-mammalian Newtonian-#mechanics mechanomorphic ideational AND ideological foundation.

All the world’s a stage.. AND a Heath Robinson machine in terms of early industrial revolution era anthropocentric and aberrant non solar-centric thinking. The helpless cog in a machine view of any life is a tragic – a study of punitive coercion or of disempowering depression. That in a nutshell is why I DO NEWS not SocialMedia. We need at this time of clear existential crisis for all humanity new words and models for action, growth and healing with which to understand and move away from child-like dependency and helplessness towards both more responsible personal actions and the courage to demand of all governments a huge reduction in the burning of any fuels for trader profits within months. This is now patently our time frame. Exponential weather-system collapse has begun. The science of extreme weather and gross seasonal disruption due to carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide & chemically manufactured atmospheric heating gases also tells us that even with carbon emissions reduced by 80 – 90% as much as 350 years would have to pass by before storms & extremes of hot, dry, wet or cold began to abate or could be wound back.

This is not a community level #adaptation, #resilience building, consumer education, or emergency preparedness training program: this is everyone and every government taking decisive #FossilFuel 🔥ing reduction action almost immediately.

John Blundell, South Australia, 22/6/2022

*James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (born 26 July 1919) is a British independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist who gave a name to the animist living earth of at least 20,000 generations of bipedal humans.  He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. The Gaia hypothesis , also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle – formulated by the chemist James Lovelock and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s – proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

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From esteemed colleague Zoe Cohen:

Authorities in #India have approved two huge #new #coal #projects on Adivasi (#Indigenous) land, defying a vociferous Adivasi resistance movement.

The unique Hasdeo Forest in Chhattisgarh, home to 20,000 Adivasi people, is being targeted for a massive increase in coal mining:

• Approval has been given for the vast Parsa mine, located in forests that are home to thousands of Gond and Oraon Adivasi, and Dalit, people. Besides the destruction of people’s lands and livelihoods, 200,000 trees will be felled.

• The existing PEKB mine, which has already destroyed lands vital to thousands of Adivasi people living in Hasdeo, will be expanded.

Large numbers of Adivasi people are staging an indefinite protest in Hasdeo. Muneshwar Porte, an Adivasi man from Fatehpur village, which is now scheduled to be destroyed, said: “We are facing a critical situation now and so we are doing an indefinite protest. If our lands are taken away, our future generations will lose their identity and our existence will be lost forever.”

Both projects will be operated by Adani Group, the notorious company that operates the existing PEKB coal mine in Hasdeo.

The Parsa mine will produce 5 million tonnes of coal a year over 45 years to provide power for the state of Rajasthan – despite Rajasthan having enormous solar energy potential.

Dr. Jo Woodman of Survival International said: “The Adivasi people of Hasdeo have spent a decade knocking with all their might on every door to protect their sacred and vital forest, including marching 300km to meet the Chief Minister. But the government has chosen to prioritise coal mining above the rights of Indigenous people and India’s Constitution and laws.

“It’s also catastrophic for the fight against climate change. The Adivasis, the true owners of Hasdeo Forest, are stepping up their brave resistance to mining that they have not consented to. Standing with them as they defend the Forest and strive to keep the coal in the ground should be a global priority.” “…

Please everyone – being a #professional, being #professionalwomen,
being in #business and above all (or below: take your pick and get out of your own grandchildren’s way if you persist with stoical human #adaptation to ultimately unliveable climatic & #foodsecurity conditions) BEING #investors no longer mean what they used to mean.

Join us now #auspol #independent #greens #greensupplychain #climate #covid19research🦠 #humanrights #humanresourcesmanagement #ESG Australian Labor Party – NOT the outrageous #Catholic Right of that or any #political party – those people and their allies in industry across the board must be promptly removed from positions of trust and authority. They must get right out of public life.

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John Blundell
South Australia 🇦🇺

*The Industrial Revolution from 1760..

• The Industrial Revolution took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• The invention of steam power from setting fire with wood or coal under a closed iron tank of water was the main innovation that sparked the Industrial Revolution.
• The Industrial Revolution originally began in northern England.
• The Industrial Revolution gave birth to several game-changing innovations and inventions, including electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, and the internal combustion engine, which eventually gave rise to the automobile.

1) Antonio Gutteres:

“The energy crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine has seen a perilous doubling down on fossil fuels by the major economies.

New #funding #for #fossilfuels #is #delusional.

It will only further feed the scourge of #war, #pollution & #climate #catastrophe.”

2) Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has bought 11.28% of AGL Australia shares via his private investment group, Grok Ventures, to become its biggest shareholder, and launched a public campaign to derail the energy giant’s demerger.

The Atlassian co-founder, whose $5.5 billion takeover attempt in March was rejected by the board, has vowed to vote against what he calls the “globally irresponsible” demerger, which will split AGL’s coal-powered business and its retail operation.

Cannon-Brookes says keeping AGL as one firm will achieve lower emissions and provision of cleaner energy. A passionate advocate for the environment, he and wife Annie have pledged to donate and invest $1.5 billion on climate projects by 2030.

3) Zoe Cohen:

In this executive summary we outline the most prominent discourses identified before, during and after #COP26. These narratives show how the climate conversation has moved from outright climate #denialism to #delayism and #distraction from acting. As these narratives infiltrate general discourse, stances on climate actions are entrenching into broader individual identity and grievance politics, emerging as a new front in the #culture #war

This report – ‘Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 and Beyond’ – is a collective effort to quantify the problem and establish concrete responses for the months and years ahead. Produced by ISD, CASM Technology and the Climate Action Against Disinformation alliance (CAAD), it is a data-driven examination of the landscape, actors, systems and approaches that are combining to prevent action on climate. Looking ahead, we have outlined recommendations for governments, multilateral bodies, tech platforms and the media in addressing this threat online.”

4) more Zoë Cohen..

This is real, and it is now. This is the reality of ~1.2C degrees global AVERAGE heating and rising

And you think we can wait for the nonexistent carbon unicorns of negative emissions technologies to supposedly get us to ‘netzero’ by 2050?!…

Your government (and mine) have literally sold our futures for short term gain for them and their fossil fuel/corporate/banking donor mates. It is the biggest crime in history.

“Just a few weeks after the May #heatwave for #Spain and #France, models coming into agreement for another absolutely #brutal wave of heat

This material* is bewildering and reflects disastrously on the hoodwinked Australian political class – business and academic position holders who may enthuse about controlled burns & mosaic burns, fire retardant liquids, soil health and so on while appearing to walk away from the horrific global loss of subsoil moisture & vegetation drying even dying simply because of excessive solar radiation due EXCLUSIVELY to the lunatic homicidal & ecocidal belief that the atmosphere can sustain 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being pumped into it each year.

I believe it only dropped to 41,000,000 tonnes in the #Covid_19 shut down year of 2020-1. In Australia, as all over the world we have government that claims to serve the children & families of working women and men actually approving new #coal mines without let or hesitation, the building of dams that will drain aquifers and destroy riparian (river-), wetland- and coastal-ecology to supply the mines, even building a BOGUS ‘high energy low emissions’ coal🔥’ed #electricity-generation station (Collinsville, Nth Qld), gas turbine power plant and gas powered Spinning Reserve machines worth hundreds of millions continue to be imported into the country from Wartsila & General Electric – even directly subsidised with tax revenues to the tune of hundreds of millions, massive new gas fields are ok’d** – the Labor Party pushing out a chief minister who apparently stood up for public health, decency and sanity – and as as we’re all painfully well aware $10.1b per year goes to #FossilFuels governments’ freebies, handouts & subsidies.

Oh yes, we all say, we have to do something about “climate change.”*** Oh yes, says the greatly respected Greg Mullins, Labor will do better. Kylea Tink MP says a 43% is a ‘floor’ to lift up from and the excruciating human stupidity of incrementalism (once called reformism in a long-lost mid-19th to early-20th century debate about the overthrow of permanent-warfare monarchies propped up by bloated capital by uprisings & insurrections of labourers, serfs and underlings..). Incrementalism. Run some $50m #greenwashing advertising campaigns! Assuage, sentimentally massage, schmooze, tell beautiful lies, embrace phoniness & tokenism as if there were no tomorrow and sell yet more millions of kilojoules of Renewable (dig hole/ get more/ yeh man/ what engineered society-wide dumbdown?/ You hippie!/ Alarmist!/ witchcraft at Salem Massachusets/ a threat to #peace, #justice & the Australian way of life) Gas.

Don’t people appreciate that global heating due to greenhouse gases has already wrecked 6-8,000 years of weather systems security? Which would take 350 or more years to regain even if we cut carbon & nitrous oxide emissions by 90% next year?

I despair for this country. And for our grandchildren & great grandchildren.

John Blundell, South Australia

*Khory Hancock, General Manager & Environmental Scientist, on LinkedIn – that i read 6/6/2022:

“It’s been over 2 years since the Australian bushfires took out millions of hectares of land across south east Australia.

“I drove through the Blue Mountains, through Kosciusko National Park and into east Gippsland in Victoria earlier this year…and was devastated.

“Billions of trees annihilated, standing like black toothpicks as far as the eye can see. This is not just happening in Australia, but all over the world.

“The intensity of the fires were unprecedented and mainly occurred in national parks, but why is this? There are a combination of two main reasons:

“1. Vegetation mismanagement
2. Climate change

“HOW DO WE PREVENT THIS FROM OCCURRING INTO THE FUTURE?

“It’s Important to note that one single fire ‘blanket’ management strategy can not be applied to the whole of Australia – for example you can’t simply say ‘we need to burn off every year to reduce fuel load on every bit of land’.

“Each area, each different ‘ecological niche’ responds differently to fire. Fire ecology is incredibly complex and the scientific knowledge constantly gets updated. Even though we can’t apply the same management strategy to any single area, we can apply the PRINCIPLES, which will ultimately determine the fire strategy moving forward. These principles are as follows:

“1. FIRE ECOLOGY – using scientific case studies for every different ecosystem type, use the findings of how the flora and fauna respond to fire frequency and intensity into management strategy (for example, plants may or may not need fire in order to reproduce).

“2. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE – practises such as ‘mosaic burning’ where possible and local flora/fauna knowledge responses is crucial (read Victor Steffensen’s book ‘Fire Country’ for indigenous fire management principles.

“3. CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS – climate change has completely changed the Fire game. Incorporating the predicted temperature rises, droughts, decreased rainfalls, increased evaporation rates and frequency of heat waves is crucial to future fire planning.

“4. HAZARD/FUEL REDUCTION – how this is done is the key, whether it be through regenerative grazing practises using cattle or sheep, or cool and more frequent burns (depending on planned frequency from a consensus of the other 3 points).

“Australia needs to turn their focus to the future, by working on regenerating the millions of hectares of land and wildlife destroyed by our mismanagement.

” #climatechange #regeneration #bushfire #firemanagement “

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/woodside-scarborough-lng-approval-despite-climate-emissions/100971214?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

*** It’s man-made global heating

Climate change alas is only ANOTHER in an enormous string of oil economy public relations and accountancy firms and corporate lawyers’ euphemisms and poor anthropomorphic or mechanomorphic metaphors dreamed up since Stephenson’s Rocket (..an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines @Wikipedia)