Devastation to be Wrought by the Australian Government’s Friends & Contractors in India

From esteemed colleague Zoe Cohen:

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.” “…

The 1760 – 2020 Wealthy English Gentlemen’s #FossilFuels Industrial Revolution*

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.
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

The Global Neoliberal Fraud Against Humanity Called Climate Adaptation.

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.

” #climatechange #regeneration #bushfire #firemanagement

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*** It’s man-made global heating

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)

Climate Denialist Spooks & Loonies Go Berko 3wks Out from Election.

As a creditable and well-known independent journalist I cannot continue operating in a cultural milieu or information-economy that has been utterly trashed by agents of government AND opposition tomfoolery, social media nonsensification and unabashed censorship.

Do I get arbitrarily* arrested next?

Been there done that – nine times over ten years. If it happens again and in this case to a man of 72 there will be phenomenal negative consequences for any agents of government, advertising & public relations industry shills on billion-dollar subsidies or deranged Young Labor or Young Liberal operatives with their debit-cards loaded up with government handout cash who might dare to even contemplate such action.

John Blundell

*International Convention on Civil and Political Right: Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.

But what is intelligent journalism?

I just caught the introduction to the @trthaber bulletin. It’s almost comic with it’s young elegant black-slacks/ jet-black hair/bright pink top with no exposed elbows lady, a big passenger ✈️ dominating the colourful set behind her.. We then turn to the most devastating video reports of #Ukraine you wil see on any television news.

And then we get down to it: #Putin shakes hands with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. What’s next, a report from Afghanistan of the Taliban keeping women and girls in their rightful place?

My point is that we all know so much of what is wrong with paid journalism. Billions of us are in fact suffering depersonalising loss and distress which are only fuelled by the demeaning engineered ethno-tribal #showbiz misrepresentation, dumbing and objectifying all, which is the monstrously delusional stock-in-trade of the global news machine. As I said at the outset here we all know the downside of corrupted journalism many of us so well it truly makes us sick.

So our challenge has to be to ask and answer the question What is effective, contributory, humanised, socially and politically functional journalism?

And here is a starting point, at least one that struck me before I set out to write this article half an hour ago: decent conduct in the public domain, material which grows out of a personal and lifelong commitment to research disciplines and practice..

You know where that goes is to a life of learning and personal emotional growth? Joie de vivre indeed. AND, wait for it: I am/ you are quite possibly Australian: tjukkurpa{1}, If we are lucky & ‘blessed’ enough to know and experience it. In what is in fact the real – not the socially constructed 1970 undergraduate #Functionalist woke/ bespoke/ tribalised identity politics/ virtual relations #Sociology nether-world – there are no talking heads, scripts, slogans, or urgings of contempt, hatred, self-hatred, violation, rape or murderous dismemberment.

Maybe more later… 🥸🙄😳🤓

– No #Econometrics, #marketing demographics, cohorts, sectors, silos or misrepresentations of #economic reality whatever, no Musk, Bezos, Gates, Branson, Rand Paul, Desantis, Gregory Wayne Abbott, John Wayne Olsen, Malcolm Gladwell, #ClimateCentral, #NewYorker, #LATimes, F Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Hayek, Alan Greenspan, John Blundell (GB), Milton Friedman or any Billy the Goose anywhere, just authentic relationship & respect for life in its multifarious forms… a work ever in process – for grown-ups leastwise: WE owe nothing to the unselfconscious delights & struggles of youth-culture immediate or ultra short-term gratification of desires a laa the commercial monetarist-greed consumer culture of addictive gustatory/ ingestive/ penetrative pleasure and parallel dementing short-term memory #extinction “Alzheimers” pandemic in all English- Japanese- & European language-speaking language countries except to ensure by every honest genuine effort that children & teenagers may experience the chi, or life-force, that opposes the evils of the twentieth century ruling class political economy.

John, South Australia

The Honest Government Promo of 7/11/2021 – It’s Here🧐😊🥳🐇🦆👀!

You mean to say you’ve not seen this particular ECONOMIC truth bomb?

Well really, it was produced at the exact point it became clear to the world that Alok Sharma’s & the appalling John Kerry’s Climate Change Conference, #COP26 had collapsed in turmoil, with #oil-#economy $100US bills wafting down to the conference-floor & grown men behaving like oinkers – 7th November 2021.

Isn’t it strange we’ve not seen it till the next Easter?

Dear people! – You don’t think it strange at all and you know damned-well how this egregious transparent malicious act of censorship was orchestrated and by whom.

– it’s AGH.

No, it’s NOT #climatechange – that is an #adaptation & #resilience slogan straight out of #riyadh, #wallstreet, #elonmusktwitter and the frankly lost demi-science of #Nature- the egregious soon to be fully Friedmanised #genocide/ ecocidal #freedom #arena – with desiccating big trees, thousands of #sky #rockets, disappearing ice caps and warming oceans. It’s AGH – man-made global heating.

It’s the 2032 #shutdown (#worst #casestudy #scenario via #fossilfuels #burners #businessasusual) by negatively* cascading feedback-loop semi- & approaching-exponential (or high r-number) modelling (2003, my own: #community #economist #publications #worldwide, Ceduna South Australia, John

*term not used as it is in 20th century #ecology (see for example George Monbiot on the burgeoning sequelae of #yellowstone #wolves – for a more sobering wolf report look to Ellesmere Island eg) but clearly as the metaphorical downward #spiral. Read multiplying plant & animal extinctions throughout the #foodchain 😕🥲.

Please Beware the Outrageous Fossil Fuels Economy Lies about #Adaptation & #Resilience!

Any discussion of adaptive responses to the rapidly unfolding global weather systems, food production, waterways & fisheries management failure that is not firmly premised on a radical reduction in fossil fuels burning not by 2030 but virtually immediately is nothing but a sop to big contractors, global accounting firms and truly #corrupt governments & financiers – yet another multibillion dollar onslaught of Business as Usual.

– Which in my studied opinion (since 2003 in fact when as a progressive economist & pioneer of organic regenerative agriculture I was living in virtual exile in my own land, at Thevenard Far-West South Australia), having upset both the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia in a by-election in May 1992 (with the very same greeneconomyaction.com programs readers honour me by reading about right here) will only reduce one critical indicator by 2030, namely the life expectancy on newborn humans to 45-50 years.

Mr Albanese’s which is to say the public relations firm RepuTech’s 43% reduction in carbon dioxide to atmosphere from #electricity⚡️⚡️production over EIGHT years and even then reliant on bogus credits and nonexistent offsets quantifying vegetation non-clearing (!) and the planting of tiny trees that will not emit more oxygen than they draw in for 8-20 years – if they survive the global disasters of plunging aquifer & sub-soil moisture levels AND disappearing winter rains in temperate regions (around the world) – is literally riot-provoking too, except in Australia, as most countries, the quieter older or more disabled battlers in this time of the.. #COVID are more frightened than ever now & don’t hit the streets is literally riot-provoking too, except the quiet & older or more disabled battlers are more frightened than ever now & don’t hit the streets… Secondary students are cowed & literally harrassed & bullied by authorities, while young singles, couples & parents of all ages who don’t feast off property & investments are in increasing financial hardship and unable to enjoy any time or freedom to protest – on pain of sacking or humiliation by religious or civil society cranks and “cookers” or political madmen.

We are looking at revolutionary & near immediate change of technology – notably to electrify everything as @GriffithSaul, @mcannonbrookes & am sure all renewable energy researchers and #ESG investors would now aver.. and grow more distressed by the day with old economy capital owners who refuse to allow future human and all-species ecological #health.


John Blundell

I’d choose not include the Catholic Church “Holy See” on a list of “legitimate countries..”Its very status as an observer-state, though advocating for no regions or communities within its borders, unlike its fellow Palestine, subverts the superordinate representative-democracy purposes of any viable economy. This church is a global corporation exempt from tax and neither answerable to nor legitimated by any sovereign population. Its claims to represent all humans are flatly contradicted by its history of conquest oppression and the ongoing relegation of female human beings to lives of subordination by men and most obscenely blind insistence on excessive births, which are imposing a stress on the the eutrophying, putrefying, increasingly toxified and polluted global environment in practical day-to-day survival and human health terms to as significant a degree as dangerous as the continuing and even increasing catastrophic pumping of 50 trillion tonnes and more of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and the raft of “greenhouse gases” generated in industrial chemical manufacturing into the earth’s atmosphere.

Concentric-circles Economy (1995, Australia).. the 5 real geographical domains contained by real community (a notional 100squ km), right down to the individual adult thru couple C2 thru household C3 thru neighbourhood C4 to 10squ km + the 4 from regional (say 1000 squ km -10000 squ km) to quadrispheric/ “national”/ C7 to hemispheric/ C8 to terrestrial, polar, oceanic #world C9 – a #food- and #FossilFuels-Kilometres model for economic restructuring.

Antarctic Heat Wave & East Australia’s Floods

The energy crisis has been blown out of the water or at least of the ice and snow as the complete man-made trashing of reliable seasonal 10,000 year-old global weather systems takes on its most terrifying presentations in entire recorded human history – 40°C above normal eastern #antarctica #temperatures.

5-6 thousand kilometres due north of that calamity the slow moving east Australian floods (plural, repetitive) from moist warm air in low pressure weather systems that are now taking 5-8 days to move off the coast in an easterly direction with the earth’s rotation. One of the apparent reasons is the slowing of cooling currents northward from the Antarctic coast towards the equator due to the heating of ocean water in conjunction with the shift of “Roaring Forties” weather from the south-west northwards due to the so call SAM or ‘Antarctic Oscillation’ – exactly parallel with the slowing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation & larger amplitude Jetstream cold air storms like Hurricanes Katrina & Sandy. Antarctica, ever renowned until now for dry air and heavy winter overcast & cloud aerosols…

Green Economy Action
John, Australia

From LinkedIn 27/3/2022

@WoodsideEnergy Enthused by Toxic Gas Utilisation

No comment offered here on any uneconomic project designed to draw public attention away from frankly maniacal vast continuing discharges of carbon dioxide and methane to air – a crime against humanity that has already trashed weather systems that were stable, reliable & safe for life on earth for 10,000 years.
Beyond #greenwashing to schmooze & confuse consumers of retail consumer goods for the further enrichment of billionaire-oligarchs such industrial activity shows absolute contempt for #esg and its custodians the United Nations & all the rapidly swelling numbers of capable responsible financiers.
At the rotten heart of this ecocidal & incrementally genocidal enterprise is that it is NOT recycling but the proposed pumping of billions of oil-economy old-century trading profits into an all-new carbon-profligate project dependent for its supply of pipelined gases generated by the combustion of #fossilfuels

It is exactly as if the advertising & promotions department of the Gigantic Bomb Corporation has announced that billion-dollar #research results new-in have proved conclusively that Man-made #global #heating was a Greens Party hoax AND that #globalhealth has never been better – their jury is in & it’s all systems go, right??

Journalism Trashed by Bad Science & Retail Politics

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The urgency of issues arising from the accelerating collapse of ten thousand years of reliable weather-systems demands immediate constructive contributions and input, not publication curlicues or syntactical niceties.

ALL so-called environmental journalism and “climate” retail politics become Foucaultian post-fact nonsenses so siloed & compartmentalised away from ecological reality as to instantly evaporate from any grounded human historical record.

Evanescence & #Microsoft worldwide tourism promotions for rich people become substance in a virtual world, all stories incongenial to the gross accumulation of material and pecuniary wealth quickly fading from view.

These finished published products become absurd documentaries engineered for popular consumption or to keep little children quiet, produced amidst the drumbeats of war as another trillion tonnes of ice, glacier and #albedo liquify, impossible of return and restoration for as long as 400 years, inimical to anthropology, human religions, cultural studies, intelligent non-functionalist, non-ad agency, non-consumer survey, non-focus group, non-romance/ crime/ adventure kiddie narrative sociology & of course all those creatures great & small and “#foreign #races” your #Renaissance public relations and advertising man has a noblesse-oblige duty to

#sciences capture, conquer and suborn to the greater good of pre-1789 European Civilisation.

I passionately hope people discover the importance and immediate value of discarding all the conventions, shibboleths, pomposity and truly bloody-minded lies of Twentieth Century balanced, “values-neutral” & opinionless journalism, monumental fraud against humanity that in my own honest and trenchant opinion it is..

THIS is the proverbial big picture of life on earth – far, far greater levels of awareness about how writers come across to audiences, a steely grip of both macroeconomic AND the macro-ecological realities and readiness at a moment’s notice to acknowledge the ideological antecedents of the human or inhumane psychotic (world denying) values base from which all of our textual & audio-visual product springs – or rather surges & spews on an insanely crowded stage of entirely artificially constructed & confected “values-free,” dispassionate, objective, evidence-anchored, even-handed, impartial “observers” or “#experts” we should all check with before believing in phenomena like #Covid_19, billionaire greed, the Julian calendar or truly #apocalytic man-made #FossilFuels burning carbon-gas induced #global #heating..

And of the course the first thing the global Big 4 accounting firms, Wall St and City of London #EXPERTS & imperious grandly-titled #STEM-ie #FACTS #checkers will do is check with Madison Ave., the likes of Cambridge Analytica 2016, Breitbart, Hunter Biden (you name it – any big money movers), Burston Marsela, Sir Lynton Crosby (who like Andrew Robb began his career as director of the Liberal Party of Australia in Adelaide SA) whereupon at least 75% of professional #journalists paid well because of their obvious union bargaining power in a monetary value- & human values-fractured almost entirely dysfunctional (except for enriching the rich) global consumption, extraction & combustion #economy and liking their money very much will promptly, obediently & increasingly pathetically obey advice to use equivocal or even nonsense terminology like #ClimateChange – or just to be a tiny bit excitable, salacious or provocative keywords like #ClimateCrisis or #ClimateEmergency – believe their audiences are endlessly gullible fools – a clear socio-cultural outcome of #Pentacostal & in fact all #evangelical (crowd-rousing) wealth ministry doctrines. If they don’t hold with this socially-engineered misanthropy their news tycoons and sociopaths like the-world-of-purely-#econometric-values-and-NO-others Koch Brothers will quietly (or noisily in a whackjob podcasters’ celebrity subculture peopled by princes of some medieval realm, #Instagram money-grubbers & second- or third-rate entertainers nobody over 45 with a reasonable liberal education or much self-respect has ever heard of) give the (authentic & decent) journalists the Royal Order of the Boot. It is, as simultaneously tragic & repulsive figure Chris Lorax in Shaun Micallef’s TV show reliably chimes in, “just a bit of fun.”

Stuff like ‘#emergency’ or ‘#crisis,’ segues nicely to the outrageous cock of #resilience & manly/ Buffy vampire-slayer #adaptation. – And on and on this death-machine goes with stoccato ratt-a-tatt-tatt beginning-middle-&-rousing rhetorical end stories lasting 75 to say 180 seconds which are all over & done within 12 hours and if still hanging around 24 hours later, like pesky floods or depressing bushfires for re-doing with

1) a new angle, new faces and ever highly marketable manic google-eyed sermoniacal messages of compassion, hope and love OK?

2) National Geographic/ Economic-geography 101 1970-style @nature yarns about stellar objects, archeology, the pyramids, Incan girl murder by the state, or filler-pieces about the heatwave in Antarctica – or Lytton, Verkhoyansk, or Fort McMurray 2016 which equivocate disgracefully & mindlessly about the contributory causes or flat-out deny, repudiate or censor #Facts – as in Trudeau’s Canada!

3) crazy-arsed oil-economy puff-pieces, thin throwaway pamphlet-, video- or glossy booklet- style promotions like 1980s #business #plans designed to tickle loan finance out of the rich old cognitively-impaired people on bank boards – or in senior positions for goodness’ sake on #ccs (Carbon Capture & Storage), #geoengineering and the global carbon offsets & monetised derivative trading fraud (see #McKinsey&co for example – the Morrison Australian government spent $9 million on their report to take it to the COP26 Glasgow meeting 31/10 -7/11/2021, to humiliate and demean the entire Australian people in the eyes of the world. Zinger.

4) ever more comic book & masculinist penetrative noisy television cartoons made to keep the kiddies quiet (irony? no, more like #domestic #violence)( as we have advised in this journal Australia has a mental-illness & public-acts-expressing-hatred-&-self-hatred bomb no-one apparently knows how to defuse and that we idiotically allow useless psychiatrists to haplessly fuel with psychotropic drugs bereft of real human relationship & post-trauma psychotherapy, group work, fitness & educational recreation programs) to symbolically, literally, patriotically belt out a billion-dollar ‘both-sidesist”/ oh goody a #debate/ balanced reporting/ equal-time for narcissists, sociopaths a-n-d perhaps some other down-home or Mom’s Basement folk so long as the optics are wonky, or the light poor, so they look like donkeys or dills to our bored viewers

5) w-h-o-o-p-s I just accidentally zipped-out the 180+ words in this section: time to knock off for now

This vital discussion as ideological neoliberalism and utter contempt for both humanity and its now terminally (that is to say in significant part irreversibly for at least 350 years) damaged environs must urgently be taken up worldwide with United Nations supervision. In the entire written history of the human race, say 80,000 years there has never been a moment like this, nor the 120,000 years since alligators swam in the Arctic Sea (James Lovelock, A Rough Ride to the Future, May 2014)

It is essentially Friedmanite bogus freedom (penis-waving & arbitrary acts of violation as the tantrumming 4 year-old in a supermarket) wildly and bizarrely transcending post-#Renaissance #neoclassical #Enlightenment #equality and everyone else’s #FreedomToSpeakHonestly on behalf of fake Jean-Jacques Rousseau mock-heroics that is destroying the living once-reliable world about us and as this evil neoliberal oil-economy objective is realised smashing civil society – trying to erase insurrections-against-the-state from #historical record, for example.

In Australia #anarchist #libertarian “cooker” (psycho-emotionally ‘cooked’ – with mental faculties ‘stewed’) agitator halfwits, dickheads & thugs in public life are engaged in coercive conduct and the knowing deliberate incitement of hatred, even violence.

LOVELOCK ON CLIMATE CHANGE

My main reason for not relaxing into contented retirement is that like most of you I am deeply concerned about the probability of massively harmful climate change and the need to do something about it now.” – Conjectures of an Independent Scientist, a talk at the Geological Society of London, 5th May 2011.

Will write again soon.. Memory of Marshall McLuhan circa 1970

Dedication Flinders University of South Australia School of Social Science 1968-9, Dean Ken Hancock

John