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Elevenses: An irreversible course
We have 30 years to see if human civilisation can survive.
Was Donald Trump complicit in one of the greatest catastrophes facing the earth?
That was what was on my mind yesterday evening as I read through our reporter’s notes from an interview with Noam Chomsky, for which we have cleared most of our weekend schedule.
“The most serious crimes Trump committed were the acceleration of the use
of fossil fuels and the elimination of regulatory apparatus,” he said. “There’s nothing in comparison to that fact. And to be honest, and frank, that’s the worst crime in the history of the human race. Almost unmentioned.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/elevenses-an-irreversible-course-265999/
Those words stuck with me as I watched this week’s virtual climate conference, convened by Joe Biden, who earlier tweeted that “science was back” in a sort of cathartic release from his predecessor, a man who once called for a “little good old fashioned Global Warming” during a cold snap.
Biden warned world leaders that this was the “decisive decade” to avoid
the worst of the climate crisis as he outlined targets to achieve a 50-52
per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. It comes just a
month after the Democrat president re-joined the Paris Climate accord in “partnership and humility” to break with Trump’s reluctance to stall economic growth in spite of rising global temperatures that threaten to destabilise the world. Such populism seems risible now, but clearly made
sense to so many who espoused his cause.
Yet a man built in his image still rumbles on in the UK, seemingly at
pains to point out to those he risks upsetting that this is not some “expensive politically correct, green act of bunny hugging – This is about growth and jobs,” prompting teenage environmentalist Greta Thunberg to
change her Twitter description to “bunny hugger”.
Of course, as most rational people recognise, it is about a lot more than
just “growth and jobs”. In fact, it is that reliance on economic
indicators that has led us to our current predicament and will lead us
into the abyss if we don’t change our mindset. We are literally killing
our planet in the name of growth and jobs, and as Emmanuel Macron once
said, “there is no planet B.”
The reality is that this transcends GDP, it humbles growth and it will
soon show us that ultimately everything is subservient to the planet. As Chomsky told us during our frank chat, this is about the possibility that
if no action is taken then “it’s all over” and acknowledging that we may have “20 or 30 years to see if human civilisation can survive.”
If we fail, forget the pandemic, forget the great depression, forget the financial collapse. All that will be left is fire, ice and a gravestone
marked with the earth’s epitaph, “we grabbed it by the pussy”, on the front.
### - very good haha :)))
this imho being the REAL news that's going down that no one's really
looking at or even considering while their minds are occupied with a bunch distracting flim-flam bs on all fronts!
"30 years" to get our shit together sounding just about right really...
a 'make-it-or-break-it' generation that will quite possibly decide this
current civilisation's ultimate fate?
our very LAST opportunity then TO change lest the whole thing goes down
the proverbial drain once and for all!
there being no doubt whatsoever that we COULD do it, the only question
being: WILL we!
can't say am personally that hopeful as we're obviously just too petty &
dumb + all too inclined to continue upon the downward slippery slope we're already on while no one basically gives a shit, inertia is the real enemy
now!
there being "no Planet-B" being a rather astute remark imho!
or did we REALLY think we could just carry-on doing whatever the fuck we
liked and it would all be alright?? such arrogance! such blindness! and
such ignorance!
the point being that we either 'reinvent' ourselves now AS a civilisation
and move on up, iow: evolve, or go down with our currently sinking ship of fools...
can't see it me'self... the sheer 'ignorance' of people (just in this
forum alone and of nations ultimately) being such that we can't really
rally ourselves enough to actually BE effective??
we can be selfish and ugly & mean but NOT intelligent enough to
change/evolve when needed?
in which case then we saw/witnessed (and lived to see) the 'peak' of this current civilisation just before it all fell-over, just like the 22
preceding civilisations ultimately all fell-over too!
that IF we ever make it now it really WILL be in the very last nick of
time coz that's just how fucked up we are!?
meanwhile, the human race sticks its collective fingers in its ears and
shouts la la la!
and how the FUCK are we EVER gonna overcome THAT in enough time to rescue ourselves and the earth???
consequently, it WILL indeed come down to the wire whether we make it or
not!
and we're already AT that wire!?
poor humanity... imho & observation we were just too dumb to survive!
(sad but true!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3AgkwbYgo
"hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way..."
there's a right bunch of monkey-cunts on this planet boss!
all scratching their bollocks haha :)))
so how depressing is that?? LOL ! :D
(images of buddha sitting there shaking his head and rolling his eyes at
all these monkey-cunts haha)
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