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Life: Climate-change Liars and Deniers

©2014  Raymond Alexander Kukkee   [caption id="attachment_2739" align="aligncenter" width="448"]Winter Sunrise ©2013 by r.a. kukkee Winter Sunrise                                ©2013 by r.a. kukkee[/caption]    

The Climate-Change Conundrum

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me we have been fed more than  enough lies, deception and denials about climate change. We're interested, open-minded,  and we try to keep up and stay  informed to enable reasonable conclusions.  We weigh facts,excuses, lies, crap and creative discussions. One thing is clear. Extreme weather change is obvious, but acid reflux continues to flow unabated from political and corporate  lobbyists  and climate-change liars and deniers.  Common sense evaporates.  

 "Let's pretend political ideology is  responsible for bad weather"

  Dreamland suburbia. Neighbourhoods shredded  by tornadoes,  homes flooded to the rooftops. Disasters.  Nations shattered, seemingly  irreparably by  extreme  'events', earthquakes, Mother Nature's best. She is clearly becoming increasingly testy with our blatant stupidity and foolishness, yet politicians, lobbyists, liars and deniers brazenly continue to explain away reckless  agendas of exploitation and destruction. There must be a more intelligent explanation for disasters than political orientation and partisan ego, but ask  "average Joe'  who somehow confirms  the agenda of the  "other" political party or ideology is responsible for the destruction, mayhem,  or environmental disaster. We jest . Perhaps not.   "Is it really global warming?" You ask naively. "Oh, no,"  smartass wise lobbyists, climate-change liars and deniers offer; profusely, deviously, incredulously,   "that's not warming, 'they' have done studies, it's proven".  Profiteering corporations "do studies" to promote, 'prove the safety of '  and enable their agenda, but let's not go there, not today. Today we're watching everyone  play games. Alas, even political  liars and corporate CEO's will have to breathe deeply in in choking smog and bring themselves up to speed with reality.   That's worth repeating, 'bring themselves up to speed with reality.'  Gasping for air does that.

 

Deluded Liars and Deniers

Politicians, lobbyists, liars and deniers,  apparently,  do not require food in  la-la-land. Devastation and floods are encouraged to miss homes of partisan  liars and deniers. A tradition.  Flood waters part where there's a BMW,  and  "tornadoes go round and round"  the house of The Three Little Pigs.  Cute. In la-la land, that is.  No kidding. Get real.    

The Coffee Shop

But let's not inject climate panic into favourite coffee-shops. Behind the counter  the apocalypse is only  "tree-hugger coffee-talk" — tornadoes in coffee mugs,  you get the drift.  Real issues are disguised like a grandé latté with plastic foam on top, expensive ideological whitewash camouflaged  with  pre-purchased   political decisions gleaned from official corporate reports. Nice.   We the 'ordinary', passively entertained, get real coffee, double-double.   We are supposed to believe LL&D  rhetoric, and unbelievably, we are encouraged to  want to believe it.  Logic suggests we pick and choose.  We`re encouraged to disbelieve  "scientific fact or base-line scientific data that our  leaders have stupidly and arrogantly dismissed  like a stale doughnut. We, the Timmy's crowd, after all, know stale doughnuts.       The Harper government ignores historical,  scientific baseline data at their convenience,  eliminating meaningful comparative data. They gut environmental legislation.  Never mind that.   The government wants YOU to believe  "shiny new, modern scientific data" gathered from operating sites by corporation should be used to enable, unnoticed,  "wise puppet policy" recommended by endless corporate reports printed on shiny paper.  Uh, huh..quite a cool show, isn't it?     Loyal readers and thinkers may ask why would average Canadian coffee-drinkers  concern themselves? After all, " hamburger jobs" are created and  the economy is "under control".   Yes, we are  controlled by  'the wise', manipulators, the political, the 'corporateaucracy', the elite, the rich, the profiteers, the exploiters. The corporateaucracy  controls everything including pulling the strings of  their political puppets. We, the ordinary, are —on a 'need to know' basis.  We get it. Gag the scientists, the real ones —and offer lies from  partisan politicians, paid lobbyists, liars and deniers instead.  "Oh, yes," we whisper at Timmy's. " the elite and rich know, that makes them qualified to run everything to a state of disaster."   Really?  No. There is no alternative world to live in after "the wise" destroy this one.   Yes.  Average global temperatures swing wildly, and centuries-old glaciers are melting; the Arctic is melting, unprecedented weather events proliferate,  carbon dioxide levels are higher than they have been in 800,000 years. All are proven, scientific fact, yet are labeled partisan rhetoric, Houdini magic science, and  scare tactics.  Coffee-shop people need oxygen to breathe, clean water to drink, and food to eat,  do we not? —or is that just another scare tactic  to be  ignored at the clever advice of devious lunatics?

 

Liars and Deniers Persist

No matter; partisan or not,  every human being on earth is playing catch up with reality which approaches quickly.  We're told to vote for a profiteering corporateaucracy.   Stubborn egotistic leaders insist we must be satisfied with hamburger jobs and  silently allow international corporations trillions upon trillions in profits as they exploit finite resources, destroying the environment we need to survive. "Cars in China now produce oxygen?"  "Contaminated, condemned  oil lands now produce food?"  "Oil spills are good for the economy"? The liars and deniers keep at it. We laugh raucously. Lobbyists, climate-change liars and deniers passionately dismiss humanity itself. They are the partisan ''wise". Something is amiss in the coffee-shop. We can do better.  Yes, that we agree on, we need a refill. What do YOU think? Have you had enough of the reckless corporate agenda, destruction of the environment for profit,  political puppets, and  climate-change liars and deniers?    Is that Incoming I hear? ©2014 all rights reserved
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Typhoon Haiyan: There are Few Words

© 2013 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee   [caption id="attachment_2330" align="aligncenter" width="1000"]Destruction in Tacloban city, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan Destruction inTacloban City  after Typhoon Haiyan   photo by metro.co.uk[/caption]  
"If Typhoon Haiyan is not a wake-up call to the leaders of all nations, what is?    
There are few words that can adequately describe the horror of the latest environmental  tragedy  in the Philippines following what may be the largest, most severe storm in recorded history. Typhoon Haiyan  (Yolanda)  lashed the Philippines with  unprecedented  furor and destruction. With winds up to  380km/hr and a 16ft.ocean surge, low-lying islands, cities, and the shantytowns of the poor were flattened, flooded and decimated. Perhaps 11 million people affected and 1.9 million or more people homeless, without food, water or shelter,  entire cities and islands trashed, thousands of people have been killed  and thousands are missing.    The magnitude of this disaster defies the imagination of the civilized world --almost to a surreal  state of disbelief as mass graves are filled with  unidentified dead.  The Philippines will clearly not recover for many years other than by the human spirit and  the resilience of the people.  World-wide, there can be no such thing as ' too much help'  offered to the Philippines at this time.

Hard questions must be asked.

Why was typhoon Haiyan so fierce, so violent?   What created the 'perfect storm' ?  What has the developed world  done to the environment?  Has "global warming" finally declared itself to the world's doubters?   Is the out-of-control petroleum industry including Canada's Oil Sands environmental disaster responsible? Think if you dare. Why wouldn't overpopulation of the world cause climate change?  Why wouldn't hundreds of thousands  of acres of  oily, polluted,  barren land in Canada's oil sands NOT change the climate?  How about the destruction of rain forests?  Clear cutting of forests, complete destruction  with thousands, yes,   thousands of species now gone extinct?   How about Japan's Fukushima, with radiation now  contaminating the entire Pacific Ocean to the shores of North America?  As an aside, why does the media not report the truth? There are few words to describe how sublime it is that the "civilized" developed nations of the world seem to have learned nothing from the poison of Chernobyl, and Fukushima, and increasingly violent weather;  hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, rising sea levels and floods. We remain tongue-tied at the ignorance demonstrated by international governments and policy. To the leaders and greedy corporate interests of the world, it might be a brilliant  idea to wake up, grow up, become actual leaders, and start thinking about solutions and environmental responsibility. Exploitation of the globe for endless profit is not sustainable. If Typhoon Haiyan is not a wake-up call to the leaders of all nations, what is? There are few words to describe the horror of this tragedy, but there are also not nearly enough words to describe the foolishness of humans, the only species in the world foolish enough to knowingly  and willfully  destroy the very environment ALL living things--including humanity itself-- require to survive. This is not a guessing game. It is a cold, hard fact. Time is up. There is no longer guesswork  about how the destruction of the planet is guaranteed. How short-sighted, and above all, how mindlessly stupid we have been.  Think about it if you dare.

There really ARE few words

Meantime,  let us put aside  political ideology, stupidity, and self-interest;  let us help the people of the Philippines wherever humanly possible. There really ARE few words that can describe how badly action is needed, and now is the time. Will the world respond? Will the politicians and greedy of the world merely see Haiyan as yet  merely another event from which to score political points and glean profit?     Is that Incoming I hear?   photo credit: courtesy of  Metro.co.uk +
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