Part-time independent journalist, Australian regenerative & organic farming pioneer 1988 until a total family & Labor Party/ CPSU fraud, lived in virtual exile 13 1/2 years, now part time commercial organic b/ d veg gardener central Adelaide Hills
Wet pants in the @Twitter little boys’ room? Or has that trickle down from the executive washroom upstairs after 25 years of Gordon Geckoe Federal Reserve monetarist & fruitloop fiscal stimulation exuberance and not a little penis-waving begun to make a terrible stink?
Whatever our fearless truth-to-power investigations may show at some point way off into the dodgy future it is clear confusion reigns and the gravely cognitively impaired have taken over. Need I add that this will not end well? Oh. It does seem the world has plummeted from limits to growth to limits to rhetoric in 58 years.
Celebrating the Club of Rome today.
1/3 Dear & not so dear misreaders.. Ms Atwood this is interesting I think there’s an important new avenue of #Sociology here. I have been a student and developer of Told Belle/McLuhan edu-socially constructed unlived vicarious “2nd hand” represented #auspol
2/3 lived experiences & relationships affecting all children who grew up with television as entertainment & internet connected screens with lists & bullet points as study. Misreading is #ITC when politicians are more intent on @GretaThunberg’s blah processes than policy #auspol
3/3 For some reason I am having my comments in #Sociology & #education in relation to your point Ms Atwood about people misreading narratives/ storylines commonly generating in their own minds readings 180° off the original blocked by @Twitter
Mercifully the 3 Tweets have be let through this morning. But a fourth one? Nh-nh. See last section of this report “Now the Climate..”
“The boot’s on the other foot” a First Nations elder said to me in 1974 at Chihduna on South Australia’s west coast. Poignant. The bloke was wrong by the way – captured by undergraduate revolutionary sentiment in the person of a Queen’s Counsel personage who founded the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of SA back then.
Writing about misreadings being culturally, socially and educationally reinforced for “socially engineered” negative ends including unquestioning noise-making consumer subservience (along exactly the lines advised by Sigmund Freud’s brother-in-law Edward Bernays in the 1920’s) puts us at the sharp end of children’s skills development & training policy.
There is a crying need – everywhere – for kids to learn Critical Thinking. To be exposed to Paulo Friere’s or Ivan Illich’s Problem Posing Education, for example. If the mediaeval #CatholicChurch continues to bribe, blackmail & neutralise the AUTHENTIC education of children and young people that is all the more reason for global leaders to urgently marginalise that institution – to flatly and simply strip it of all its outrageous secular public policy making powers. #auspol
The mental AND cognitive dumbdown – learned helplessness* – is violently eroding active and emotional intelligence in a human race and ecological biota now also under dire threat of microbial viruses. I believe Ms Atwood’s incidental and unexceptionable observation points strongly towards urgent society-wide, worldwide reexamination.
Now the #Climate Intransigence Sharp End..
We get right down to the bedrock of #FossilFuels-#economy/ major accountancy firms/ #wallstreet #CrimesAgainstHumanity : the following #Twitter message is currently BLOCKED from transmission from my account #wired_we:
“Renewable controllable gas for this generation and the next” – a free-to-air television advertisement 8:25 pm 13/7/2022 @SBS.
We will fight you people into the ground. No insurance available to you #Oil #Economy ghouls – only huge bags & suitcases full of organised crime 💰🤑 . You’re done. #Independents @Greens #climate #energy #journalist John Blundell SA
14th July 2022 10:30 AM Central Australian Time
Astounding
*Martin Seligman USA 1965: Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a real or perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.
Western Australian authorities have recommended a 50-year extension of the country’s biggest polluting fossil fuel development, sparking condemnation from climate campaigners who warned it could add more than 4bn tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
The WA Environment Protection Authority (EPA) advised the state government it should give the greenlight to oil and gas giant Woodside Energy to run its North West Shelf gas development in the Pilbara until 2070.
It recommended the approval be conditional on Woodside reducing the total net greenhouse gas emissions released from the gas processing facility by two-thirds – from 385m tonnes to 128m tonnes – on the way to reaching net zero carbon pollution by 2050. The company could meet those targets by cutting emissions or buying carbon credits to offset its pollution.
Opponents said the condition covered only a fraction of the total pollution expected from the expansion as the vast bulk would be “scope three” emissions released after the gas was exported and burned overseas.
Woodside has estimated the development’s scope three emissions would be about 80m tonnes a year. Climate campaigners said it suggested it could be responsible for more than 4bn tonnes of additional carbon dioxide over 50 years – more than eight times Australia’s annual emissions.
The head of clean transitions at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Jess Panegyres, said the North West Shelf expansion would undermine Australia’s emissions reduction efforts and add to a worsening climate crisis if allowed to go ahead.
She said the EPA recommendation could lead to Woodside tapping a long-promised new gas field, Browse, off the WA coast, and showed “how fossil fuel companies can exploit our weak environmental laws in their own self-interest”.
“Both the UN and International Energy Agency have been very clear that there can be no new gas developments to limit global warming to 1.5C, but Woodside continues to aggressively expand its operations, even with the global gas market set to shrink as the world switches to cleaner, safer renewables,” Panegyres said. “This dangerous company does not have Australia’s economic or environmental best interests at heart.”
Woodside said the release of the EPA recommendations marked an important step in the North West Shelf expansion. Its executive vice-president, Fiona Hick, said the company would carefully consider the conditions proposed by the EPA.
“At a time of heightened concern around energy security, the North West Shelf project has an important role to play in delivering natural gas to local and international customers, providing energy that can support their decarbonisation commitments,” she said.
Woodside recently dramatically expanded its fossil fuel footprint by merging its petroleum assets with those of the global miner BHP, a step that made it one of the world’s Top 10 oil and gas companies. It is proposing several new developments in Western Australia, including a $16bn development of the untapped Scarborough gas field.
It has been criticised for failing to explain how it would meet what it has described as its aspiration to reach net zero emissions by 2050. At an annual general meeting in May, 48.97% of shareholders voted against the company’s climate report.
Federal government emissions data shows the North West Shelf development emitted more than 6.7m tonnes of carbon dioxide in the 2020-21 calendar year, more than any other Australian industrial facility.
Part II, Distorted Belief, Enlightenment Philosophy, Combustion Society.
Any society that as commonly with affluent post 1789 “enlightenment” nations, and now with the frenzy of algorithm- or #ArtificialIntelligence-“captured marketing victims that is vastly cashed-up neoliberal screw the-/ profit from-the-poor Friedmanism at its zenith, seeks to virtually replace the business of government (best summed up in contemporary progressive City of London terms as #ESG I might say – that is making both industry and public services work not only for upper middle income people but for everyone) with statements, announcements and outrageously costly feasibility or scoping studies about government. Debate, speeches, ceremonies, celebrations and memorable television events, ludicrously “balanced” by ponderous polite consideration of say the femicide epidemics all over the world where every “stakeholder” including the hateful corrupt and complicit is assured of an equal say. How else do countries entertain presidents who urge police to shoot down people they don’t like (being competitive young males) except by corrupt and compromised newsmedia. How, and some of us have been deeply distressed, lost and voiceless in a purported liberal democracy (not presumably a two-party racist sexist neofascist electoral autocracy as #India) about both issues has our country ignored the non-Burmese people of horrific Myanmar and “not-a-#journalist!” Assange for another decade?? And how for the love of decency and natural justice have we kept selling #coal into South Asia and profiting from exploitative and now obviously lethally dangerous neocolonial #carpetbagger business dealings there? So in this context – as an enormously well-read person trying to contribute to his people – I offer some notes that help explain how we became a country that doesn’t do any work but considers it noble and fine to endlessly pointlessly and gallingly talk about it.
In turn, I’m sure the sociology of ACUP, ECUP & HCUP (Blundell 1997) will help you find answers as to how we must get young Australians out of their obviously bullied and suborned state and looking towards healthy productive economic lives. To hell with the technical Billy the Goose political pantomime.
Now the @Guardian report from Perth, Western Australia that finally and mercifully if one takes a sanguine view as we all must at this moment of global #weather cataclysm due ONLY to man-made carbon & other heating gases discharged to our atmosphere by the combustion🔥💥of #FossilFuels, lays bare the frankly deranged view in Australia amongst rich old white people and their younger political class acolytes/ Kool Aid guzzlers/ bewildered rhetoricians calling themselves journalists whose dualist mentality holds that the debate or “the show’s” the thing (or thing-k..
– This clearly psychotic vision of real-world material content as mere scenic props for the macabre performances of a “chattering class” with its objectified manipulable capitalised Environment as one siloed field or compartment of study & decision, while all others including human health, longevity, ecology, tourism, mountain climbing &c were distinct and separate matters..
– Distinct neoclassical specialisms whose entire raison d’être (purpose for being, Fr) is detailed legalistic examination, multi-million dollar research grants from the barking-mad global oligarchs & their tax cheating foundations, prestigious awards and glittering prizes and lofty elevation to salaried riches, public honours and many rides on big✈️ s. **
**Artificial Compartmentalisation under Patriarchal Fiscal Elites along with #ECUP & #HCUP were identified by myself publishing as Community Economist – later CE Publications Worldwide (until 2003) – 1996. The other two: Excessive Codification under Patriarchy, Human Commodification under patriarchic fiscal/ monetary elites – Marxist neoclassical people please note the process is to turn the low-income person into an object for trade, a situation of depersonalisation and #coercion and NOT of #commodotisation, #dehumanisation or brutal #slavery (these states are obviously present with genocidal governments and organised crime cartels – our job is to relate to and represent the broad mass of humans, to empower and enable not facilitate or patronise.)
Now the @Guardian report from Perth, Western Australia that finally and mercifully if one takes a sanguine view as we all must at this moment of global #weather cataclysm due ONLY to man-made carbon & other heating gases discharged to our atmosphere by the combustion🔥💥of #FossilFuels, lays bare the frankly deranged view in Australia amongst rich old white people and their younger political class acolytes/ Kool Aid guzzlers/ bewildered rhetoricians calling themselves journalists whose dualist mentality holds that the debate or “the show’s” the thing (or thing-k..)..
People not only want #climate “denier-list” mad men’s and women’s heads on plates, but want every official and public servant employed – state, local or federal – who is on public record holding that man-made #climate change due to carbon gases pumped into our atmosphere is only one of several factors trashing the earth’s 6 to 7000 year-old #weather #systems OUT.
It’s our country and we want what’s left of it back in safe hands guided by intelligent and cognitively unimpaired minds immediately.
November 9, 2016 Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of maximum fossil fuel production in the U.S. while rolling back environmental protections. Credit: Getty Images
Donald Trump’s astonishing victory has turned the world of climate action upside down, setting back U.S. environmental policy and threatening the international drive to cut carbon pollution and slow global warming.
The stunning upset by Trump, who has routinely suggested that climate change is a hoax, threatens to unravel President Obama’s climate action agenda, built on executive orders and regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon clampdown at power plants. Trump has vowed to “cancel” the Paris climate agreement, but could cripple it by merely retreating from the U.S. commitment. As the world’s second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution, the U.S. could render the global treaty meaningless, at a time when scientists are urging nations to quickly raise their ambition, or risk an escalating climate crisis.
Leading up to the election, the gulf between Trump and Hillary Clinton on climate and energy was wide and the stakes couldn’t have been higher. But the campaign was not fought on those issues. And despite environmental groups pouring an enormous amount of money and people power into the race, they were unable to break through with the message that climate action is urgent.
The result sent shockwaves through the global climate talks now happening in Morocco, known as COP 22, that aim to turn the Paris agreement’s promises into action. Many there expressed deep concern and disappointment.
“We are all stunned at the COP,” said Saleemul Huq, a climate expert at the International Institute for Environment and Development. “No one had anticipated this result, and hence there was no plan B. We will have to think about what happens next.”
In another disappointing outcome for climate advocates, Republicans maintained their control of the Senate, winning eight of 11 key races, as well as keeping their majority in the House of Representatives. Both chambers are strongly opposed to climate action policies.
The nation’s climate leaders were left stunned, somber, angry and reflective. They had already prepped their wish lists for Clinton that included a massive clean energy spending program, a moratorium on fossil fuel leases on federal lands and other rules to curb the coal, oil and gas industry’s impact on the atmosphere and water.
Most environmental groups had backed the Democratic nominee, despite reservations among progressives about her all-of-the-above energy approach. In her, they believed they had a leader who understands the risk of climate change and respected the science. Clinton had been challenged from the left by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, but climate activists were confident they would have been able to influence her policy and push her to further commitments to action. Most of all, she wasn’t Trump.
Now, with little chance to have their agenda heard in Washington, environmental groups will be forced to play defense. At first, that will mean an effort to block Trump’s plans, perhaps by convincing Senate Democrats to block appointments or use the filibuster. Legal challenges are another avenue, but Trump will be able to quickly make his mark on the judiciary, with his appointment of a Supreme Court justice.
Trump has signaled plans to populate his cabinet with oil industry executives and allies, to eliminate the EPA, and to cut all federal spending on the United Nations climate process. Trump has claimed that he will save $100 billion over eight years, which appears to be based on a plan to end federal funding for solar and wind energy, efficiency, batteries, clean cars and climate science, wrote Joe Romm, a former Energy Department official and founder of the Center for American Progress’ Climate Progress blog.
Basically, Trump has promised an America-first, drill-baby-drill energy policy. He has promised unfettered production of coal, oil and natural gas and to “bring the coal industry back 100 percent.”
Trump said he will rescind any regulations that unduly burden energy development, including the Clean Power Plan, which, if it survives legal challenges, was to have been the cornerstone of Obama’s climate action legacy and the main policy for realizing the nation’s Paris goals. He also said he would abolish the Waters of the U.S. rule, which the fracking industry in North Dakota has opposed. Trump said he would urge TransCanada to renew its permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline. Within his first 100 days, Trump said he would lift moratoriums on fossil fuel production in federal areas, which could clear the way to new coal leasing in the West as well as coastal oil drilling, not only in the Arctic but also the Atlantic and potentially, the Pacific.
“Western Energy Alliance is overjoyed that we will not be experiencing a third term of the Obama Administration,” the industry group said in a statement this morning. “President-elect Trump understands that overregulation is killing American opportunity, and his plans to spur development of domestic shale oil and natural gas will create hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs while delivering widespread prosperity and low energy prices for consumers.”
Jeff Holmstead, a lawyer who represents coal-burning utilities and who spent four years as an assistant administrator in the EPA under President George W. Bush, said that if the courts don’t kill the Clean Power Plan, Trump will have a number of other options. “I think it’s certain the Clean Power Plan will be revoked,” he said this morning. “The only question is how.”
For his energy and environmental policy team, Trump has selected one of the nation’s most prominent climate contrarians, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to head his EPA transition. Ebell worked on policy for the tobacco industry before his years of work opposing environmental regulations and sowing doubt on climate science. Trump is also reported to be considering Harold Hamm, chief executive of fracking industry leader Continental Resources, for energy secretary, and Forrest Lucas, co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, for interior secretary.
Long-term, the environmental movement faces soul-searching about its own direction, and how to turn widespread popular support for environmental protection into an effective political force for urgent climate action.
Michael Brune, executive director of Sierra Club, said this morning that he was feeling “angry and sad and contemplative.”
Looking to the future, he said, “I think it starts with being thoughtful about how we got into this position, and how fear played a role in this election, and looking at how do we build a stronger, broader, more powerful coalition to get the solutions we need.
“We have an opportunity to show climate solutions work for all Americans, including low-income white folks as well as communities of color all across the country.”
Brune said green groups will also have to remain on offense, in addition to resisting Trump’s plans. “We’ve made tremendous climate and clean energy progress, and that can’t be stopped, even with a united climate-denying federal government.”
Brune pointed to state and city governments choosing renewable energy over coal, and the efforts of private companies on climate change, as well as popular support for action on climate change. “Trump, McConnell and Paul Ryan, all working together, can’t stop that,” he said. “The best lever that we have is a majority of the voting public that believes that climate change is real and we need to do something about it. The Republican leadership will expose themselves politically if they overreach.”
Clearly, though, the early battle lines will be Trump’s regulatory proposals.
“If his goal is to dismantle EPA, then our job is clear,” said Jeremy Symons, associate vice president for climate policy affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund. “It’s to protect the bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act that have been at the heart of America’s environmental progress, and it is to mobilize the public, who overwhelmingly support the EPA and these laws.”
Symons said he believes that the industry would rue the demolition of the environmental protection architecture that Trump has promised. “I think the election should be a wake-up call to businesses, who now face a future of regulatory chaos if President-elect Trump tries to follow through on dismantling the regulatory framework that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink,” he said. “The fact of the matter is that our environmental laws work. And any attempt to roll back these laws will create regulatory chaos for business and will precipitate a backlash from the public.”
Trump will be the only world leader who rejects climate science, according to a study by the Sierra Club. This is a particularly tough pill for climate activists to swallow.
“Trump’s election is a disaster, but we must channel our anger and fear into hope and resolve. Our work becomes much harder now, but it’s not impossible, and we refuse to give up,” said May Boeve, executive director of the climate advocacy group 350.org. “We refuse to leave the future of our climate in Trump’s hands. Now is the time to take a deep breath and fight like never before.”
“Our hearts go out today to the millions of people who voted against bigotry and hate and now have to accept the fact that the man who ridiculed and threatened them for months is now President-elect of the United States,” said Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard. “Greenpeace and millions of people around the world have all the power we need to combat climate change and create a just world for everyone. Let’s use this moment to reenergize the fight for the climate and the fight for human rights around the world.”
The movement’s defeat went far deeper than just the presidential race.
The League of Conservation Voters, which gave Clinton its earliest presidential endorsement ever, and spent a record $45 million to elect her and pro-climate action members of Congress, watched four of its five preferred Senate candidates and five of its seven House candidates lose. LCV’s only winning Senate candidate was Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, who will take the seat of retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, becoming the first Latina in the Senate.
Opposite LCV in many of the races was the political network of the billionaire libertarian Koch brothers, which stayed mainly out of the presidential race, but spent at least $44 million on down-ballot contests. Seven of the eight Koch-backed Senate candidates were victorious; the network’s only loss was to Masto. The Koch brothers’ effort was bolstered by massive spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative and anti-regulatory organizations, including the National Rifle Association.
..and in Terrifying Climate DenialistAustralia a Critical Re-examination of Half-broken Humanity’s Ludicrous 19th Century City of London Philosophies & Beliefs
Now the @Guardian report from Perth, Western Australia that finally and mercifully if one takes a sanguine view as we all must at this moment of global #weather cataclysm due ONLY to man-made carbon & other heating gases discharged to our atmosphere by the combustion🔥💥of #FossilFuels, lays bare the frankly deranged view in Australia amongst rich old white people and their younger political class acolytes/ Kool Aid guzzlers/ bewildered rhetoricians calling themselves journalists whose dualist mentality holds that the debate or “the show’s” the thing (or thing-k – this a kind of objectivist Rand-Greenspan/ substantivist, mad-bishop Berkeley solopsistic/ ‘internet-of-things,’ anthropocentric algorythm, fevered #STEM #science and drawing room-/ focus group-driven divinely or at least psychotically Reverse Transubstantiated conversational universe – but you all knew that, right?){1}
– This clearly psychotic vision of real-world material content as mere scenic props for the macabre performances of a “chattering class” with its objectified manipulable capitalised Environment as one siloed{2} field or compartment of study & decision, while all others including human health, longevity, ecology, tourism, mountain climbing &c were distinct and separate matters..
– Distinct neoclassical specialisms whose entire raison d’être (purpose for being) is detailed legalistic examination, multi-million dollar research grants from the barking-mad global oligarchs & their tax cheating foundations, prestigious awards and glittering prizes and lofty elevation to salaried riches, public honours and many rides on big✈️s in reward for producing Carl Sagan’s pseudo-#science and sectoral derivative #Econometric tosh – surveys that count so much stuff that large warehouses & vast KW Hours of electricity are required to store humanly & ecologically useless data, that like old #BlockChain transactions are of zero value the moment after it has been processed, and unecologically referenced partial analysis in any and all fields of #research masquerading as #biology, oceanography, sociology, atmospheric science OR economics in particular, these being the essential tools humanity must exploit to arrest man-made #global #heating (NOT to greenwash or talk sh.. about).
{2}Artificial Compartmentalisation under Patriarchic Fiscal Elites along with #ECUP -EXCESSIVE CODIFICATION & #HCUP – HUMAN COMMODIFICATION – were identified by myself publishing as Community Economist – later CE Publications Worldwide (until 2003) in1996. Students will note that patriarchic fiscal elites characterise oligarchy, plutocracy, monarchy, gerontocracy, kleptocracy and all other aberrant forms of hierarchical military societal organisation tending to autocracy (the rule of one – or a completely unhinged Australian Prime Minister who was apparently magnanimously bestowed on that utterly bewildered nation by God or some sh..)
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.
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.
greeneconomyaction.com + @wired_we Twitter
John Blundell South Australia 🇦🇺
*The Industrial Revolution from 1760..
Industrial Revolution inventions.
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.
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)
Billionaire-🙈🙊🙉🐒s with Olivettis 