Drought 2022

[matrixmann]

Europe dries out this year...
Thank you, people! Thank you for traveling to Majorca every summer, for traveling to Turkey, Egypt and all the other Mediterranian areas, thank you for every cruise trip you ever joined in the last 20 years, thank you for producing and buying all the short-lived stuff and throwing things away before their expiration, thank you for outsourcing and globalized economy, thank you for all the wars in the Middle East, thank you for all the babies you had to get in the last 20 years, thank you for all the crap you've thoughtlessly thrown into nature, than you for all the stuff you have thoughtlessly taken from nature, thank you for valuing everything in money and rating it higher than matter - thank you for coming up and never getting enough!
That's what everyone gets from it!
And there's still way, way, WAY more to get!

Comments

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

“For that example, I was rather thinking of size and of larger areas which are counted together under one name than of going to have to name half a dozen world areas.”
Of course, yes. I have no problems with what you are saying but with the direction of “developed” European thinking – they - Europeans were stealing all the possible resources and even humans from around the world for centuries, they had got through the industrialization to rise productivity when they had cut out all the forests and burned all their easy to get resources out and now, the European mass media is daring to declare that the Indian or Chinese wish to live as the citizens of “developed” countries are living is to blame in global warming… It is just one big unbelievable manipulation in my point of view… Get back your own forest at first to blame in anything the South Americans, get the fuck out your dirty with blood hands from Libyan, Iraq and Syrian oil first to tell any bull shit about global warming or it looks comical when USA is destroying the whole countries to steal their raw material and fuel resources with one hand and with the other is writing articles to all world mass media blaming others with industrialization and warming anything even their own houses as it is in Europe…

[matrixmann]

I know, this rhetoric now is deeply unfair... and this is already a reason why it's not going to work if wanting to get the nations who now make their rise to material and technological wealth into the boat to work on the task "don't make the man-made portion of the climate change even bigger than it already is".
You can't tell someone to not show a certain behavior which you did yourself for decades and even centuries...

I also have no idea how to make this work in a reasonable and fair manner...

Though, I don't think the data that now receives more attention from the public is factually incorrect.
Mankind has a serious problem of having overextended itself, and part of it has allowed itself the sweet life for a long time while suppressing the rest of their world.
Factually it would have to be like this - stopping to consume all the energy -, but you can't get to pick a moral together which could pose a plausible reason to the ones who had been suppressed before to not claim their portion of that sweet life in the coming century.
This is the bitter consequence of longstanging one-sided-ness...

By the way, I have once seen couple of numbers of CO2 emissions.
China is currently at an equal level with the United States - well, but herein lies the twist, if you're knowledgable.
The United States have a population number of ca. 330 million people.
China has a population number of 4 times (!) the number of the US.
So... who's the one who's burdening the global environment more in this case?
If the more than 1 billion Chinese people manage to get along with about the same mass of "dirtiness" like just 330 million humans, then they seriously do a pretty good job.
Meaning: It's the US who should better lower its emissions.