Guest essay by Eric Worrall
City liberals worrying about what survival skills they will need in the near future when the climate change sixth mass extinction causes society to collapse.
Humans in the headlights: frozen in the path of a climate catastrophe
By Alex Fletcher
March 22, 2019 — 9.07am…
On the surface, I’m spending my days normally. But most of the time, I’m thinking about climate change and what that means. Pretty much everything I thought I knew and relied on is now hazy. My assumptions about the past, the future, and the solidity of my world are in question. Beyond that, our actual values and behaviours as a society no longer make sense.
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Either way I spend a lot of time searching things like ‘climate change news’, ‘sea level rise news’, and found another phrase that really took the wind out of my sails – ‘near-term societal collapse‘.
I read books on wilderness survival and have mini-panic attacks if I think about all the new skills I would need to learn to be self-sufficient, and protect and sustain my family, should organised society come to a creaking halt. I obviously don’t want this to happen, but do enough reading on climate change and it’s hard to escape it as a real possibility.
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We’re in the sixth mass extinction. The insect world is dying. Forests are not growing back after wildfires.
These things are happening right now, we can’t ignore them anymore. It is undoubtedly cause to panic.
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We humans are rabbits in the headlights, intuitively knowing we’re in trouble, but standing around watching as it thunders towards us.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/national/humans-in-the-headlights-frozen-in-the-path-of-a-climate-catastrophe-20190320-p515uv.html
City greens learning “sixth mass extinction” survival skills. I’m not sure whether to laugh or worry.
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“On the surface, I’m spending my days normally. But most of the time, I’m thinking about climate change and what that means. Pretty much everything I thought I knew and relied on is now hazy. My assumptions about the past, the future, and the solidity of my world are in question. Beyond that, our actual values and behaviours as a society no longer make sense.”
I guess I shouldn’t laugh. There’s a whole industry out there dedicated to fooling people like this.
But if he does all that studying, why is he worrying? Can he only find one side of the CAGW story?
Btw, here’s a good survival tip. Buy a house with a swimming pool, and have the local coal dealer fill it with coal and then cover it over with soil, and if the power ever goes off, you will have plenty of fuel to power your personal needs. 🙂
Some of his challenge will be in the form of the Google search engine not displaying any “fake” science.
The other challenge is his own, any URL with wattsupwiththat.com in the heading will be automatically ignored by self.
It is a wonder he hasn’t discovered Judith Curry’s site, and others similar. But I suspect his personal blinders are fully operational.
“our actual values and behaviours as a society no longer make sense.”
Alex, this is a sign your mind is trying to tell you what most people have come to understand: that there is no evidence climate is heading us for disaster. In 2009 (?), after the failure of a host of predictions made by climate science all-stars, and deep into a totally unexpected 2 decade “Dreaded Pause”, despite galloping CO2 , a disorder labelled the ‘Climate Blues’ struck. This plunged a significant number of climate scientists into major clinical depression. I say major because we no longer hear a word from, or about any of them. Interviews revealed that they rationalized that it was because they could see the juggernaut of approaching climate devastation and no one would listen, a totally untrue statement – all universities, governments, hollywood, almost all MSM, social scientists, scientific societies, the UN …. were on board!
Your observation of a change in values and people standing around as if nothing was happening is really because of your unfortunate panicked perspective on an issue that has been grossly oversold. Your researches would appear to have been limited to one side of the argument. Ask someone not cayght up in this issue to advise on how to get alternative information.
Talk about bias confirmation ! What kind of “news” does he expect to find about sea level rise. It is rising slowly as it has since 1880 , well before AGW could have been a factor. He must be hanging out for a new adrenalin rush from the latest “it’s ( maybe ) worse than we thought” study.
Maybe someone could suggest that he Googles “debt crisis news” every day if he wants to worry less about climate.
He seems to have a little trouble distinguishing between a field of rabbits happily nibbling grass, getting on with life and doing whatever rabbits do and a rabbit petrified by fear.
Hopefully the evolving “six mass extinction” will rid the world of this kind of idiot who has not functional place in Nature. I doubt his “survival skills” go further than being able to use an ATM.
Climate derangement syndrome is a real and serious problem, I hope he can get the care he needs.
“The insect world is dying. Forests are not growing back after wildfires”.
He needs to widen his research parameters…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/02/21/the-coming-global-forest-regrowth/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/20/insectageddon-is-alarmist-by-bad-design-scientists-point-out-the-studys-major-flaws/
Again quoting Alex Fletcher …
And now you should know why so many posters hereon WUWT mention the fact that they can’t “talk sense” to/with any of the CAGW believing “warminists”, ….. or, … aka, .. “city liberals”.
“DUH”, if one truly believes that ….. “the insect world is dying off and forests are not growing back” ….. then what good would it do them to be …… “reading books on wilderness survival” …… given the fact there would be nothing in the per se “wilderness’ to survive on?
I suspect that if he has been researching “survival skills” in the same manner he has researched climate science he would not be able to survive on a functioning farm with the skills he has acquired.
Agreed Samuel and Rocketscientist.
It is apparent that this character, undergoing anxiety attacks is not changing his lifestyle at all.
* No garden or gardening.
* No husbandry.
* Unable to identify, collect and prepare foods from nature.
* No skills, whether metal working, fiber and fabric production, farming, wood working, etc.
* Apparently no skills like, food preparation and storage, self support sufficiency for food, shelter, heating, water collection and purification.
Yet, this urban dependent apparently typed up his whinging lament via computer in between his wailing journeys into the internet…
Pathetic.
“City liberals worrying about what survival skills they will need in the near future when the climate change sixth mass extinction causes society to collapse.”
No one should worry!
If society tries to fight CAGW by destroying the economy by insisting on Carbon Zero, regardless if CAGW is fact or not, we, except the elites such as the Rockefellers, the Gates and George Soros and co, will have starved to death as our cities and infrastructure descend into chaos, famine and starvation.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
In my view, we will die for no real reason at all -but that’s life!
Filling it with oil would work better.
Coal can be used as is. Crude oil isn’t much good, and it’s hard to refine on a small, home scale. Gasoline is too volatile to store safely in a swimming pool. Diesel is not as versatile as coal.
Better to fill the pool with coal.
And a cord or 2 of wood …… for use as “kindling’ to ignite the coal on fire.
Kindling? In the UK we has gas fired “pokers” to start coal fires. Yes, I mean that!
Nor does coal have issues with a little water.
A mighty important attribute.
Rain, snow, sunshine, hot. cold, frozen, …. makes no matter, ……. coal will ignite and burn “hot”.
“City liberals worrying about what survival skills they will need in the near future when the climate change sixth mass extinction causes society to collapse.”
Please, please, PLEASE, don’t give them any help!!!!! Please, I beg you, for the children!!!! These people can’t survive without access to a soy latte coffee shop or a microwave! They don’t know how to run a standard can opener, the kind with no motor! Please don’t help them stumble through it all! Taking a fish right out of a lake, prepping it for the frying pan or the coals – from scratch, fer Pete’s sake! – will have them bewildered beyond belief!!!
Durn, I”m gettin’ mean in my old age!!!1 Sorry, mods, I just got caught up in the moment, in that bit of fantasy that has my cast iron Dutch oven simmering BBQ beans and smoked sausage slowly in the coals of a slow fire, while the kids are roasting marshmallows on long wooden sticks. It is a dream I have….
It was the stories around the campfire, the occasional pop and whistle of slightly green twigs exploding in the heat of the fire, and everyone waiting for the stars to come out so that we could see the Big and Little Dippers and the Pleiades and a few stray meteors.
Good times.
Recently moved to Houston from the sticks. Believe me these people will not last a week nothing to worry about. The only thing they can grow is weed. Without a place to charge their Tesla they will not even get out of the city limits due to traffic. Being a born and raised Texan i am ashamed of what the large cities have become. I blame it on flouride it will lower your IQ and look where people vote Dimwitocrat.
Flourish? If you believe it lowers intelligence, I despair of your intelligence.
Someone once told me that if all bridges, tunnels and boat transport leading into NYC were “closed down”, …many residents would begin to starve within 2 days.
A major city generally has about one week’s supply of food, including everyone’s home pantry and the grocery stores. It would not take long for people to begin pouring into the country.
I don’t see any farms or livestock on Manhattan, and as far as I know we don’t have replicators to make food. So it would be merely a matter of math to determine how long the existing stocks would last.
BTW I suspect that there are already a fair number of NYC residents who are currently starving with all the current means of supply open.
David. Welcome back. Despite its problems, I still love Houston.
You must be a fisherperson.
Fishing poppers or jigs for redfish and speckled trout,
David. Welcome back. Despite its problems, I still love Houston.
Best thing to do is wall them up in the cities and send stuff to them by remote-operated trains. And always supply the bare minimum. 40 million people walled up in NYC doesn’t seem so strange, does it?
I’m kind of giggling about this, because if any people survive any of this nonsense, it will be those in the country who are already self-sufficient.
Sara, believing all the climateer blarney, our liberal friends are certain to plan for the wrong thing and not survive even without any climate change. Now a few ladles of those simmered beans and smoked sausages you mentioned sound like a hood survival plan to center on!
Gary I strongly recommend that you have several books on your bookshelf, one of which is Rodale Press’s “Stocking Up”, which tells you everything – EVERYTHING – about preserving food.
The other, for everyone who wants to survive the Coming Epoxyclypse Thingie, is Hannah Glass’s “The Art of Cookery”, originally published in the late 18th century, and still available today. She went into great detail on how to tell if meat was “stale”, or starting to spoil, because there was no refrigeration of the kind we have now, other than the icehouse IF a family had enough personal wealth to have one. I have both on my bookshelf.
It’s just a “feewing” on my part, but this so-called crisis seems to be fraying at the edges just a little. Let’s hope that very fraying continues to proceed. And meantime, keep a weather eye on the squawking from those fearful persons beleaguered by their “end of the world” affliction. It will probably irritate them enormously if you observe that it’s a fine day in Spring.
Thnx Sara! I’m a halfway decent cook myself. My children stole all my cook books years ago, including one of my favorite, Ken Shale’s “Brewing Better Beer” (word order?) It included malting your own barley.
Gothem?
At least when I was growing up with Cold War threats of MAD
I could deal with it
It would simply be over
Can’t wait to see who supports the new green deal
I hear a vote called for today
‘near-term societal collapse’
What Britain will get in 5 days. The people voted out of the EU. The government says, “No.”
Mueller says no Russia collusion. Democrat heads are exploding.
We live in interesting times.
No Russian collusion AND no Trump involvement
No Russian collusion even though the Russians apparently tried numerous times to infiltrate the Trump campaign, without success.
I will be interesting to see the final report.
Everyone should be happy (partisans excepted) that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is probably one of the most honest presidents the United States has ever had. The Democrats did their best to find something dishonest about Trump and they found nothing, so we have to assume there is nothing there to find.
An honest, competent, humorous, truth-speaking dynamo of a president, is what we have in President Trump.
We should all thank the Good Lord for giving us a great leader at a crucial time in our history.
Tom: Right you are. I shiver to imagine what our country would be like after eight years of Hillary and company.
I heard a report on Fox News this morning which quoted an interview on CNN with Obama’s CIA Director Brennan, and apparently Brennan, at that time, gave Obama credit for initiating the investigation into Trump.
We knew Obama was briefed on the Trump investigations and now it looks like Obama may be the instigator of the investigations. One political party weaponizing the Executive Branch to attack and destroy the opposition political party. That’s what we have here.
Things are going to get interesting. Obama probably took steps to insulate himself from the investigations of Trump directly, but with idiots like Brennan around, it makes it harder to hide his involvement.
Barack and Hillary cooked up a scheme (imo) to thrwart the will of the American people. The American people should know what they have done to undermine our Republic.
This is the biggest, most dangerous scandal in American history. It’s sedition, and treason because Hillary was cooperating with foreign powers, the Russians, and Ukranians to influence the U.S. elections.
We can’t allow this to happen again. Otherwise, we lose our country and our freedom to fanatic authoritarians, who will never relinquish power
re Brexit: As reported recently, the elites have risen up and overthrown the British people.
Mike Jonas
There is a price!
So what does the latest script for the kabuki theatre say after the third vote is rejected?
My guess is that some time before 12 April the impending humanitarian disaster—delayed shipments of cut flowers from Holland and perhaps even worse horrors—will be averted by another delay premised on a second referendum. And the people will vote, until they get it right.
Well played, Mrs. May. Well played. It calls to mind Bill Clinton, having disingenuously promised middle class tax cuts to win election, deeply (deeply!) regretted having failed after working harder than he had worked on anything in his life. And lo, taxes went up before long, the opposite of what had been promised.
Welcome to the Hotel European…
Relax’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
you can check out any time you like, but you can never Leave.
They continue to spout rubbish without having anything to back it up. Unfortunately, simply doing so creates damage because the disease is spread by the media and the general population eats it up, probably because they want to remain stupid and believe the first thing the hear. Have these soothsayers been threatened or paid off by the Green Blob? If the latter, they seriously need jail time for not exposing the fraud.
I’m more concerned that these lunatics will attempt to fulfill their own prophecy.
Given that any WX event, even non-weather events like forest fires or the reproductive rate of penguins is somehow tied to
Global WarmingClimate Change.I think subconsciously, many people are processing the upcoming financial crisis that has been building up, transferring that inner dread and fear into something amorphous that the Globalists prefer to distract us with, and when there is a collapse and the accompanying social unrest – they will claim that is the Climate Apocalypse they have long been “predicting”.
It seems that even the so-called elite are concerned that this next crash will be the Big One and they want to make sure that they are not the targets of reprisal.
Well Alex Fletcher, what he/her/zie should realize is that the ability to detect when one is being conned is itself a survival skill. When one is so naive one falls for a game that may have been plausible in the late 1960’s, but has long since proven to be as discredited as Harold Camping is among evangelicals.
I used to think like this Greenist.
I spent 30 odd years as an organic farmer with this belief in the background of my thinking..So I planted thousands of trees to help the planet recover and lower CO2..
I read all the Lovelock, Flannery & Suzuki books.
But last year I went through a change in awareness. I started thinking about what the weather was like when I was young here in Oz..In the 1950-80’s.
And it was during all that time predictably changeable : with droughts, floods, heatwaves and bushfires….JUST it still is and has been for the past decade…
Ummmm ?
Then I started going to my favourite beachside locations in Victoria & SA for all that time as well..I started looking to see if the sea level was higher than when I was young..
And it ain’t – not by much anyway; maybe millimeters, not meters !
does the climate of this planet we live on change ? Yes , very definitely. But CO2 has bugger all effect on daily weather or the decadal climate.
There are bigger more profound issues that need sorting in our world. This Greenist Global warming nonsense is a distraction and a dead weight on effectively solving those problems.
You should have Googled “Sea Level Rise” rather than looking at the ocean. You are allowing observation to get in the way of a good yarn. It is this sort of abnormal response that could wipe out the whole Climate Change industry and make it more difficult to encourage you to part with your money to save the world.
Reminds me of an interview of some old US gulf coast fishermen. The interviewer is asking how they are coping with the sea level rise and they have this confused look on their faces and are asking what sea level rise? Joe have you noticed any sea level rise?
Who needs Goggle when observation works ?
🙂
No one needs Google…get rid of it…use DuckDuckGo.
https://duckduckgo.com/spread
Unbiased search that’s never based on your search history.
No tracking,
No data collection.
If you still want to use Google / Gmail/ Gmaps / You-tube / LinkedIn / Facebook; do it on a stand alone computer
ALL THOSE PRODUCTS TRACK YOU & INFECT YOUR MACHINE with data mining software.
I tried Duck Duck Go bu it kept returning USA results and I couldn’t find a way of telling it I was in the UK.
Susan
There is an option on your browser to select DDG as your default search engine. It should have a button to select UK as your default. If you can’t find it, search to find out how to install it on your browser.
If not, try Opera as a your browser. Very good and seemingly not as intrusive as the others. It also has a built in pop up blocker and it’s own free VPN (although limited but every little helps). It has the option to select DDG as your default.
I also install Ghostery which blocks tracking cookies other than on sites you trust. It can be paused as you will inevitably come across sites that don’t play well with it.
Hope it helps but it does take some time to adjust to the change.
Duck Duck Go has user selectable options by clicking on the 3 horizontal bars in the upper right of the search page and selecting “Other Options”. On the Settings page one can select country, language, whether adult content is displayed, page lines and breaks, metric and normal units, how directions are displayed and a whole bunch of other. You can save the preferences to the cloud.
Been using it for a few years now with no difficulties.
HotScot, Opera is now owned by the Chinese. You will be tracked id you use it.
Here is a recent finding of interest to explain the YD, … https://www.sciencealert.com/new-evidence-suggests-a-comet-set-earth-on-fire-13-000-years-ago
Iceball sets earth on fire? Not likely.
I guess climate change is like combat to these folks, hours and hours of boredom ended by moments of sheer terror.
I wonder if any of them have noticed how far off the climate models are.
It’s never a bad time to learn survival skills. However the amount of FEAR, angst, and panic expressed by this rodent-like human suggests serious mental illness. A dangerous break with reality. NORMAL folks don’t spend their waking hours obsessing over some imagined climate catastrophe. I hope this person obtains the psychotherapy and anti-psychotic drugs required to calm his manic thoughts. And I really HOPE this person is NOT a parent, and is unnecessarily frightening his children. Or worse … is a middle school teacher spreading this unhinged imaginary cataclysm. Please get the help you need. And leave the rest of us alone.
This is serious. Mental illness needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Oh horrors – ‘they’ say climate change will be a DISASTER. I feel PTSD coming on already. I really need to make an appointment with my shrink – but he is booked up for 6 mo past the date ‘they’ say the world as we know it will end. More PTSD! What WILL I do?
Rabbit, squirrel, what’s the difference, they are all a menace to society :
I don’t brake for squirrels. They are spawn of Satan and they need to die.
Arboreal rats with good haircuts. Closely related to beavers in that they will chew anything.
Now don’t you all be badmouthing squirrels.
Your survival in the “wilderness” just might depend upon squirrels.
Anyway, … be it survival or just hungry, …… fried squirrel and/or squirrel gravy is mighty tasty eatin.
A country boy can survive. 😊 😊
SCC
I’ve eaten squirrel a couple times. What little meat they have on their bodies is tougher than shoe leather! The next time I’m hungry enough to try eating squirrel again, I hope I have a pressure cooker available to use to make squirrel stew. At least the potatoes and carrots will be chewable, albeit tasting like squirrel.
Clyde, sorry about your bad experience.
Iffen my dear ole Momma cooked a Grade A “prime” NY Strip steak it would be tougher than shoe leather, …… but now she could fry up a skillet of squirrel that was tender and delicious.
Cooking wild game is pretty much an acquired/nurtured “art form”.
They steal birdfood. They are mean little beggars.
Sara
It’s law in the UK that if you catch a grey squirrel you must despatch it humanely.
And it is probably a hefty fine and/or jail time iffen you do the same to a stray cat or dog.
Sara
I could tell you a story about my attempt to keep the little beggars out my my hanging baskets of strawberries, using an electric fence charger. But, it might be better to just let you use your imagination.
“Deer in the headlights.” Not rabbits, not squirrels – deer. Can’t we at all speak American?
hes an aussie I gather
and stupid to boot.
rabbits are rarely hit
deer and roos however Are!
Id place him in either category a downright bloody pest species best removed asap.
Yeah, I’d agree. Here in the US mid-Appalachians, I’ve hardly ever seen a rabbit hit. Hit squirrels aren’t rare, but mostly I see opossums, deer, skunks & raccoons. The deer are a real menace — cars can be totaled.
beng135
My cousin, who lives in South Dakota, swears that they have a breed of kamikaze deer that purposely run into the cars.
I’m pretty sure that ecompasses all deer west of the Mississippi River and 97% of deer east of the Mississippi River.
Texas deer are dangerous as well. I had one run into the side of my van a few years ago.
David
The only deer that I have EVER hit (a Black Tailed Deer in California) in over 60 years of driving, ran in FRONT of my Corvette. That was because the driver coming towards me flushed the deer out of his lane into mine. I didn’t see the deer until it was in front of my left headlight because the idiot in the other car had a misaligned headlight and it was blinding me.
Squirrels will run right up under your tires. I guess that’s why they call them squirrels.
When deer walk on pavement it’s just like walking on ice to them. They slip and slide all over the place when in a panic. They have a hard time getting out of the way.
Jonathan Haidt has given an excellent TED talk. In it, he examines the roots of morality.
That is true on both the right and the left. The left doesn’t believe it can possibly be blind to the truth. They believe that the right is ignorant and they are a bastion of intelligence. They are blind to the fact that they are blind to the truth.
Given that the Left has essentially bought and cheated its corrupt way into an Ivy League education, it can’t really hold a view of its ‘superior’ intelligence. They believe their own BS because they don’t have the smart to question what they’re fed.
Truth was invented by the Right to confuse people.
It takes a particularly jaundiced mind to conclude that the human mind “invented” morality as
– a means to divide people, and to
-blind us.
So which “team’s” “morality” is it that determined murdering another human is immoral? Is TED running out of topics? Or are “modern” humans so desperate to kill God, that they seek to extinguish our very souls? Extinguish the inborn, spirituality that gives us a natural sense of right and wrong … an inborn morality.
Ohhhh yeah … I forgot we’ve replaced morality with moral relativism. One that tells us that one man’s murderous Muslim Terrorist, is another man’s “Freedom fighter”. Even when that “freedom” is Shiite from Sunni, or Sunni from Shiite. Yep … murdering each other is relative. Uh, no … it isn’t. It’s wrong.
Study history much?
Alex, no need to worry. Train hard in self survival and make sure you learn to defend yourself against the people who didn’t prepare. They will kill you and take all of your preparations. Train your family in the proper use of firearms. If your scenario plays out, you will need lots of bullets you can get you hands on.
No, he can’t have bullets because he marched to support firearm control.. see nice people don’t *need* firearms for any reason whatsoever in the modern enlightened world they were building. Not air rifles, not even toy guns..
he can’t have a knife either, again – knives are nasty and violent. In fact no weapons because no one ever has any need to protect themself from anything, they should just call the police, the council rangers, the council or some other figure of authority and let them take care of everything.
He can’t fish because that’s just cruel. Nothing in nature is as cruel as humans, it’s not like other animals kill and eat each other, only us meanies do things like that. He can’t have soap ever again either, not unless he learns how to wring oil from rice grains.. Veganism isn’t simply a way of life..
He thinks he might be a little bit brighter than those clomping duds in The Walking Dead, he’s worked out bicycles are a fantastic form of transport in the FutureWorld, but as soon as nasty person points out bike tyres are made from evil fossil fuels, he’ll glumly turn from his beloved deadly treadly..
I can picture his slow sad end, searching gutters for discarded coffee beans, begging forlornly for wifi access codes, shivering in the cold because he isn’t quite sure what’s safe to burn (no MDS data without the net) and he never really learned where fire came from anyway.
It’ll be tragic. I shall weep. His parents and The Authorities were supposed to train him how to be an adult, but in all this time all they did was concentrate on edifying children. What motivation was there for him to ever move beyond the child stage ? If only they’d spent some time trying to raise adults he may have stood a chance.
Australia..firearms and bullets are rather closely controlled…unless youre a crim
in which case for far less than the lawful gun owner pays for licences lockboxes etc they can be armed and ammo supplied and rather dangerous rather quickly.
this idiot in his survivl frenzy would be the sort to trespass on farmland and get removed , maybe harshly;-)
one hopes
Societal collapse is much more likely to come from Marxism than from Climate. Climate Marxism included.
I’ve heard of deer in headlights, but I would have thought rabbits would just dart across. Anyway, just another scientifically illiterate liberal spewing psychobabble nonsense to explain away why reality isn’t cooperating with their socialist Utopian fantasies. Yawn.
Yes, one thing they fail to realize about the Star-trek Utopia they seek is that it requires a free and unlimited supply of energy.
Only deer or other ungulates can total your car and kill you. Rabbits and squirrels? Not so much, unless you’re stupid enough to swerve to avoid them. So let’s all agree on “deer in the headlights “.
I don’t think there are any wild deer in Australia, but there are plenty of rabbits and at least one insane journalist.
The only country in the world that residents have to install “rabbit fences”, ….. right?
we have ONE massive major one that needs a lot of renewal/repair. but if you are anywhere slightly semi rurual and you want your vegies etc then fencing is wise.
i Have 5 large stag x hounds and they get bunnies that get into the yard even with fine mesh and dirt barriers over it..surprising how many dont get in;-)
or never leave if they did.
applies to feral cats as well
There are plenty of wild feral deer in Australia of 3-5 l deer species.
Driving home on the South Eastern Freeway from Adelaide on Saturday night there was a deer with a fawn on the side of road eating grass..About 8 ks. from the city.
oh theres LOTS of wild deer here! and goats feral also, as well as pigs rabbits and dingos and wild dogs and dingox wild as well. foxes and bunnies are the small fry but still do a lot of damage
between them all, crops stock and fences take a pounding in some areas.
I’m quite sure there are cattle in OZ, not as many as sheep, but I ate good beef in Sydney which I doubt is all imported from abroad.
The only place I have seen many rabbit road-kills is out in the Basin and Range states where jack rabbits are abundant and what speed limits there are, are rarely observed. It keeps the coyotes and ravens happy.
Aside: did you know that jack rabbits aren’t rabbits?
“My assumptions about the past, the future, and the solidity of my world are in question.” ?
Personally Alex, I think it’s your sanity that is in question……
‘The insects of this world are dying’, this has already been exposed as nonsense. There are enough scary problems in this world without making up more. These warmist nut cases remind me of little children. They need to grow up and face the real world, there are enough real problems to keep everybody busy.
Can someone please tell me which forest isnt growing back after a bush fire. Dont include made up ones.
There is a link up there. Have a go at it.
They talk of trees, it seems. Forests are made of trees.
He has jumped from a study saying trees might not grow back due to climate change to a belief that trees are not growing back.
There is probably no cure for this mindset.
I don’t know why, but I am continually amazed at the sheer stupidity of people who fail to recognize the resilience of the natural world.
Some idiotic article in the Grauniad says no bugs returning, when it’s too early and too cold for them to emerge and oh, my Flailing Mental State, it’s a disaster of proportions beyond epic!!!!
Just shaking my head over it, that’s all. At least they’re consistently consistent.
Only ten years after the “catastrophic” Exxon Valdez oil spill, nearly all traces had been eradicated by Mother Nature. About twenty years for the “devastating” Yellowstone conflagration.
Liberals live in a different world. Trump derangement syndrome; climate catastrophe syndrome; end of the world syndrome; boys can be girls and girls can be boys; Islam is the religion of peace and Christianity is the religion of violence in England, etc., etc. It must be a very tough life.
Yeah and don’t forget that boys and girls can be… both boy AND girl now too. Heck, isn’t inter-species a thing now? Diversity is good!…..except diversity of opinion…
One promising thing though, is that conservatism is now the new counter culture. It’s going to be cool to be on the right and the left – now the establishment – will be seen as boring old bullshit. It’s happening now and the mainstream media will by tripping over themselves to get on board within a couple of years I reckon. A matter of time but not soon enough. I struggle to find ANY opposing view on anything but the internet. Radio and TV is completely lost down it’s own virtue signalling hole.
“Christianity is the religion of violence in England”
Yeah, I saw that. Really stupid. They claim the religion of “Turn the Other Cheek” is a religion of violence.
Another attempt by those on the Left to destroy the institutions of Western society.
In there minds, anyone who grew up in a “Christian” town, and commits an act of violence, counts as a Christian.
On the other hand any member of the Religion of Peace who commits a violent act is an aberration and it doesn’t count.
What most of these people actually have is a serious anxiety disorder triggered by incessant irresponsible reports issuing forth from a colossally gullible media.
Orson Welles would be inspired and amused.
It is pitiful. There is a huge aggregation of individuals who are realizing their vulnerability. They can’t feed themselves, heal themselves, move themselves, house themselves or cover their bodies without money, and only money. Knowing full well they have no capability beyond monetary transactions, they are indeed frightened. The sad part, like the rabbit, they are diving under the wheels.
Sounds like he should put a paper bag over his head and lay on the floor.
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Also need to make sure the bag don’t have any holes in it & make double sure it is tied securely with a granny knot.
Alex would be one of those folks who would be lucky to escape with his life when he was stripped of whatever he had of value in a real survival situation.
City “greens” wouldn’t last 48 hours if fossil fuel energy was denied to them. Perhaps they should be taught that lesson.