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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.
Immgine the mass hysteria when razor blade production collapses and Metrosexuals are no long able to shave their chests.
Alex Fletcher should definitely tear his clothes, put on sackcloth, sit in some ashes and put them on his head, because that is what his climate missive amounts to. Perhaps he could even get a group together of his fellow climate calamatists, and they could engage in a ritual cleansing of wailing, clothes-tearing, and sackcloth and ashes-wearing, and put it on YouTube. It would be awesome. Failing that, yes, he should get some help. Maybe a 10-step program for addiction to Klimate Koolade would be a good start.
“Rabbits in the Headlights”? Yes, and the climate scientists are driving the car that is about to smash the hapless little fools. Yet, they continue to stare motionless at the oncoming onslaught.
Ha ha ha ha ha, does this mean Soylent Green is really rabbit stew?
Forests are not regrowing after wild fires? Someone tell the trees and shrubs and grasses to buck up, we’re counting on them to regrow. We’ll give them the best kind of help… lots of CO2 in the air.
City liberals have nothing to worry regarding a faux apocalypse. Fortunately for them, there is no impending disaster save the possibility of our next glaciation. If their absurd scenario were realized; they would all die. They have no skills and those who do would not view them favorably.
Forests aren’t growing back after wildfires????
Where?
I’m guessing that these “greens” honestly expect the forest to be back to normal within a week of the fires.
Let’s see now, exactly whjat is the coming doomsday scenario going to look like?
Rising sea levels. But these are not very great and in this person’s lifespan cannot exceed
a foot or so. That doesn’t sound very scary. Extreme weather events – but even the IPCC admits that global warming has had zero effects WRT extreme wether events. So what’s left?
“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‘.” There is your problem. Might you spend some time researching information that explains why your fears are unfounded. I mean, you are getting worked up over something that is totally bogus. Don’t you think it would worth a little of your time to make sure you have looked at both sides of the argument?
The policy Mengele’s of the Climate Crusades like to test more than rabbits–just ask the fire victims in California.
BBC News – Mongolia: A toxic warning to the world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-47673327/mongolia-a-toxic-warning-to-the-world
‘Mongolia: A toxic warning to the world
All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world.
And the problem is intrinsically linked to climate change.
The country has already warmed by 2.2 degrees, forcing thousands of people to abandon the countryside and the traditional herding lifestyle every year for the smog-choked city where 90% of children are breathing toxic air every day.
Population Reporter Stephanie Hegarty finds out why.’
HELP!
BBC mixing concepts here, this is pollution that is obviously bad.
Do they really think 2.2 degC has been caused by the pollution?
Why are BBC mixing climate change & pollution ?
Progressives discussing ‘survival skills’ is, in itself, an oxymoron.
What Alex Fletcher wrote led me to laughter. I will probably catch hell from the more “Politically Correct” that I should not laugh at someone’s psychological disorder. …… Ha ha ha ha he’s a nut case!
Rabbits don’t freeze in headlights. Deer do. And I thought the Doe-Doe vanished long ago.
According to Al Gore, the ozone “hole” made the rabbits blind.
No wonder we can’t see the headlights!
We’ve seen this before and we can still see the sun shining.
I watched a UK TV program where 6 persons were dropped onto a tropical island in the Pacific for several weeks armed only with cameras to record their survival ”skills”. The six comprised tradesmen, clerks and a brain surgeon! They struggled to start a fire rubbing two sticks together and searched everywhere for water . Within days their urine was dark brown then stopped. (And they couldnt get a fire going). None of these bright sparks took advantage of the plastic rubbish scattered all over the beach. No idea how to make a solar still using a sheet of this plastic. No idea how to form a plastic ball and fill it with seawater to make a lens to start a fire. And not one thought that just taking a lens from one of the several cameras could also focus the suns rays. I think the TV people had to call it off when the six looked like they were not likely to get through the first week (As for catching fish!).
The mass extinction going on now is caused by loss of habitat due to mankind’s our of control population. It has nothing to do with climate. The reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has not control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has nay effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. To prepare for a future disaster we should be taking steps to improve the global climate and not waste money and resources pretending that we can somehow affect climate change.
Rabbits in the headlights? Is that worse than being kept as the goat in the coal mine?
In his case he immediately should stop
“[ to ] 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.”
and begin to learn living like
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=6UybXKObBM-IrwSW0bfQAg&q=tv+documentary+series+Alaskan+bush+people+&oq=tv+documentary+series+Alaskan+bush+people+&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
and other social care receivers.
Great news, CO2 is up, planet is greening… More stuff of life is good if you worry about life!
The only thing that scares me is that people want to go broke fixing the above godsend. That is a real and present danger…