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"Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse.
If past experience is any guide, the world’s reaction to the floods in Spain
last week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow
down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy, inwardly give thanks that
fate picked someone else – and foot on the accelerator.
That is the pattern in our climate-disrupted era when extreme-weather
catastrophes have become so commonplace that they risk being normalised.
Instead of outrage and determination to reduce the dangers, there is an
insidious sense of complacency: these things happen. Someone else is
responsible. Somebody else will fix it.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The unnatural disaster in Spain –
Europe’s deadliest flash floods in at least half a century – is evidence of two
undeniable truths: the human-caused climate crisis is just starting to pick up
ferocity, and we need to quickly kill the fossil fuel industry before it kills
us.
That should be the primary message at the UN Cop29 climate summit that opens in
Baku next week because halting the combustion of gas, oil, coal and trees is
the only way to stabilise the climate. For this to happen, we must fight the
tendency to normalise scenes of disaster."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
