Thx for these links and sendouts, Bob. It is depressing but
still - someone has to care. The local CVNS Mission (Cowichan Valley)
statement published in every Newsletter is to speak for nature that
cannot speak for itself.?
Elizabeth May spoke
at Duncan Campus VIU in very early 2016 just after the Paris Accord that
was such a fob, exactly as later, soon to be cordoned and contained,
Greta depicted it. And Elizabeth attempted to be less cynical with her
experience and be mildly optimistic at that point for the magic 2 degree
rise. Ironically she was a nature consultant lawyer in Mulroney's
government which has the weird distinction of a better environmental
record than any Canadian government to follow, perhaps. She stated that
back in? the 80s "we" all knew the warming was happening but nothing a
trillion dollars worth of lobbying, controlling key governments,
supporting flakey, corrupt populist leaders, sloganist campaigneering
and repeat, repeat, repeat dumbed down messages could not erase. An
Orwellian prophecy made flesh in a braver, newer world where Huxleyan
Soma exudes from every cell phone. I am no politician but I do feel the
people in this world need to back off on the stimulation, pause, reset
and think for a moment re the rising, loomingly ominous Iceberg ahead on
the charted trajectory of Progress. And milling economies. Or shall we
merely rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic as the Band plays on? I
have heard for decades from those around me, in my age cohort of early
boomers, that they would not live to see the inexorable debacle as
opportunistically grazing, pilfering and rapacious humans denude the 12
mile (20 km) thin atmosphere, contaminate the 5 mile ( 8 km) deep ocean and all the Eden
greenness they have so magically sustained to keep us going. And now the
throes of the Warming are upon us as we await the major conveyor ocean
currents from the
hurricane-riddled
Gulf of Mexico past Labrador to
flip, as with the other major ocean circulations. Alas poor European
farmers and all others. The predictability of El Nino may be getting
foggy in the rear view mirror. The agricultural farm factory mentality
of tilling every square meter of arable soil propped up with energy
hogging, imported fertilizers (far fetched such as the former and
disappearing Guano from Chile) and pesticides to accelerate yields, all
while lying to the people as to dosages, and toxic effects with loaded,
decadent and prevaricating approval committees may get its comeuppance
soon as forecast plantings will no longer thrive and produce. Big Pharma mirrors our
agriculture model in its methods reminiscent of Nero's Fiddling Rome.
Appearances are all that count for the nonce (it seems!) but it is the
substance whose only apparent erasure will come back to haunt. Getting off the readily available energy, addictive junk hydrocarbons will never be easy. Tightening one's belt in such luxury seems unthinkable. So far.
This is what I shared with loved ones this morning in the final orgiastics of yet another meaningless Election :
The controlling mega AI purveyors automatically download all
stored pics, personal data from our computers into their cloud
Drives with the whole planet's sensitive personal info and store that
in their massive southern hemisphere servers and elsewhere. We all gotta
serve somebody, the good Dylan pronounced it and we are letting them
suck ever more energy reserves (reported more energy than all the gas
guzzlers in North America last year and almost equivalent to the carbon
release of Canadian fires in the Warming's last year fires in 2023, not that too many avaricious leaning parties even seem to care or notice) towards
their pronounced? nosey, invasive fiefdom to run their social engineering media.
And we are taxed heavily for their profit. And we the sheeple gladly pay
obeisance at every election, managing to vote for the candidate of
THEIR choice, as we obligingly pay our debt in supplication to the
gazillionaires. They aspire to planet B with their race into space,
taking their joy space rides to earth's outer limits - and they warm our
hearts(??) and bodies during the increasing Warming. And with 5G, never a
dull moment as we stay connected. Now that's stimulation - fighting off
the moments and boredom that make up a dull day (apologies to a Pinker
Floyd who knew a dark thing or 2 about Moons and the controlled lunacy).
Hey, some people enjoy sugar plums and palm trees (not just visions dancing
in their heads) well north of the
tropics and say it's better than the social downer plague.
Sorry to subject you to this whingeing weltschmerz - but
weltanschauungs (broad global perspectives) must change quickly and effectively
if there is to be any bastion of hope and liveable planet left.?
?? cheers with some hopes of a more general awakening, Nature loving public tomorrow from Maple Bay, robin
