..that’s not at all what I’d like to know, I do know (I’ve been a Marshall McLuhan scholar since my days in Politics 1 at Flinders U of SA)
Australia has rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s accusation Scott Morrison lied to him about the scrapping of a $90 billion submarine contract. — Read on www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-dont-think-i-know-emmanuel-macron-accuses-scott-morrison-of-lying-about-submarine-contract/1v1g5vhfj
Thank you ZC for the plain words and plain talk about a projected 200 million persons to be displaced – not by some amorphous public relations slogan – “#climate #change” (actually proscribed, even in a million schools for the love of sanity, or its public usage so circumscribed in official circles so as to surprise when heard AND EVEN NONSENSISED IN POPULAR CULTURE and #social #media to convey positive value as we hear bewildered young people say they are Working for Climate Change) that’s in early 2023 so past its social, economic and cultural use-by date that we can all “smell it” – the term has become “universal (what??)” branding for nutters, the clinically depressed and jibbering ministers of religion – BUT coastal inundation by sea water and the glacial-meltwater devastation and literal collapse of lands by avalanching, undermining, earthquake, tsunami and volcanic ash-cloud/ heat & carbon dioxide transferred to the stratosphere 10-30km up.. are real things.
..we can all hear taste smell feel touch hunger asphyxiate dehydrate drown or get heat-struck by (or on sorry account of) them.
Readers greatly appreciate your summaries ZC [see 6 paras immediately below], your 👀-wide-open reflections on the worldwide geophysical & essential macroeconomic conceptual econometrics we MUST NOW begin to model assiduously and honestly, no longer for the fun & profit & fancy bright-coloured graphics of meteorology bureaus, law and accountancy conglomerates or the politicians of crude liberal majoritarianism’s electoral autocracy run by ad agencies, public-menace culturally vitiating individually targeted consumer product- marketing artificial intelligence and Elon Musk’s imploding public square.
The article Zoe Cohen responds to is..
Experts say extreme weather is a growing danger to displaced people and could force more to flee homes — Read on amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/climate-crisis-migrants-displaced-people-extreme-weather
But readers please also jump on to this chapter in the rapidly unfolding Engineered Dumbdown (AI) story, from 11/1/23 on @ProjectSyndicate:
So in her words:
•On current forecasts, more than 200 million people are likely to be #displaced around the world by 2030, by a variety of factors including the climate crisis. Most of them are likely to stay within their country borders, but the impact will be vast.
•The impact of the climate crisis on human mobility is significant, and that must be recognised,” said Daniels.
•The plight of women also needed more attention, she added. “There are particular impacts on women and children. Women are often in a vulnerable situation, and have less access to resources, whether that’s money, land, education or health, and they are often in care-giving roles or bear the burden for their families.”
•Andrew Harper, the special adviser on climate action at the office of the UN high commissioner for refugees, said rich countries must start taking seriously the need to help poor countries adapt to the effects of extreme weather, of which the consequences were now obvious. “Ignorance is no excuse any more; we are seeing disasters now on a daily basis,” he said. “One person was displaced every second last year. At what point do we start taking this seriously? When it’s two people a second?”
•Climate-related disasters last year included devastating floods in Pakistan that left more than 20 million people dependent on humanitarian aid, and severe droughts in the Horn of Africa, where close to 150 million people are facing extreme hunger.
•Climate change has turbocharged extreme weather events,” said Harper. “And those extreme weather events are in turn displacing people.” “
Now my input – it’s about the busted contemporary journalism genre, a professional backwater with ever more funding, encouraging and neo-absurdist lionising from the global billionaire cabal.
It grows ever more ECONOMICALLY irrelevant and ECOLOGICALLY dangerous with every passing week – such that 7 billion ordinary working, intelligent & world-aware people in full command of their own senses and sensibilities – these are actually grown-up humans (adults) – demand its repair…
As I reflect, I’ve been writing in the same mode for five years, always contextualising, confronting “It’s their economy stupored,” writing as anchored in one’s own regional, hemispheric and global milieu, NOT IN AN ARTIFICIAL-REALITY NEWSMEDIA ELITES STUDIO OR UPLINK BUBBLE, fiercely rejecting the utterly offensive both-sidesism, that takes the 1970s hippie Carter era Values-Free social, economic, cultural AND environmental posture & gesture as politically & socially de rigeuer,* vapid cliches, vacuous mixed metaphors, the ‘baby-talk’ of other nations being called “family,” the deliberate** neoclassical Ox-bridge English ruling elites mispronunciation of names-people-places-institutions (eg màfia, eg cop, eg the sound ‘j’ showily spelled ‘g’ as gibberish or vice versa Menin-jee ..SA town w flood threat presently) and EVER in corporate-state #journalism’s endless bilge-flow of childish narrative reports the deracinated b, the gluggy, turgid, officially vetted (even by national spy & security services for Christ’s Sake) m rounded off with the obligatory resounding but vapid bathetic e – always advancing the sum of human knowledge by a negative quantum & psycho-culturally (psychiatrically) pushing the patient consumers of this stuff inexorably towards an actually “dumbed down” state of mind, that is into cognitive impairment & in the macro, or Big Picture, an actual meltdown of health & personal support services and ultimately what is now correctly identified as the rule of lawlessness by the UN.
Here’s my resonant ending-bit, Ms Cohen: you and me both will work our t..s off for the needs & hopes of ordinary people
John, 🇦🇺
- In French, de rigueur means “out of strictness” or “according to strict etiquette”; one definition of our word rigor, to which rigueur is related, is “the quality of being strict, unyielding, or inflexible.” In English, we tend to use de rigueur to describe a fashion or custom that is so commonplace within a context
** in the entirely vexed malicious pursuit of ethnocentric cultural hegemony for the billionaire class’s precious City of London no less
Billionaire-🙈🙊🙉🐒s with Olivettis 