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“Central Asia’s Water Tower to Lose One-third of Glacier Mass by 2040.
“Overall, the Tian Shan mountains are projected to lose about one-third of the area’s glaciers before 2040, according to a recent study. Furthermore, scientists worry that it may get even worse depending on the climate scenario…”
“Tajikistan to host major international conference on water security amid rising climate risks…
“Qodiri warned that growing water scarcity could escalate geopolitical tensions, with nations facing stark choices between cooperation or conflict over shared resources.”
“AN INSANITY BEYOND ANY IMAGINATION – CRAZY 24.4C [75.9F] AT 1420M ASL IN CENTRAL ASIAN RUSSIA (at Gunib).
“This is getting absurd and beyond what’s though to be physically possible. And THIRD DAY WITH 30C in Central Asia – 30.7 Esenguly TURKMENISTAN record. and you know something ? The worst hasn’t come yet.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2023788016272371850
“CAUCASUS RECORD WARMTH. Another avalanche of records in this historic winter warmth:
“ARMENIA – 24.2 [75.6F] Meghri NATIONAL FEBRUARY RECORD, 18.0 Ashtarak, 15.2 Sisian; AZERBAIJAN – 27.0 Geokchay, 23.9 Zakatala, 22.2 Maraza, MINS: 13.7 Gyanja NATIONAL RECORD OF FEB HIGH MINIMUM. 12.6 Zakatala.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2024192374570684486
“More than 7.5 million people in Pakistan are facing high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition following a year marked by heavy monsoon floods, prolonged droughts, dry spells and escalating violence.
“This is according to a new assessment released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global hunger monitoring system.”
“Sweat for survival? How long can India’s informal labour bear the heat.
“Driven by global climate change and local environmental stresses, heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer, and intense, especially in northern, central, and eastern India.”
“HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN BANGLADESH.
“Another record heat wave in Bangladesh just like every single month of the past years. 35.0C [95F] Ramgamati. 34.9C Comilla – both are their hottest winter day ever. And the heat will get worse and worse every day. Expect record after record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2024100114864935311
“Smoke from Cambodian forest fires hits Buriram border villages.
“Residents along the Thai-Cambodian border in Buriram province have begun to feel the impact of forest fires burning on the Cambodian side, with smoke and airborne embers drifting into Thai communities, local officials said on 18 February 2026.”
“Forest fires worsen Chiang Mai’s air quality on Wednesday morning [Thailand].
“Forest fires worsen air quality in Chiang Mai, pushing PM2.5 levels to unhealthy levels. Authorities report 182 hotspots in the region, with significant fire risks in southern districts… Due to drought, leaf fall has increased the fuel load, contributing to higher fire risks.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40062668
“Torrential rains trigger widespread flooding in Grobogan [Indonesia].
“The disaster affected 42 villages across 10 districts, with water levels reported between 50 and 100 centimeters. Floodwaters also inundated 26 schools, more than 1,800 hectares of rice fields and severely damaged two houses.”
“Tragic Landslide Halts Nickel Operations in Sulawesi.
“A landslide at PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park in Sulawesi led to one worker’s death and halted operations in a nickel processing hub. The incident occurred in a tailings area managed by PT QMB.”
“Endless record heat in INDONESIA.
“MINIMUM 27.3c [81.1F] at Manokwari has its hottest night in history in February broken for the 5th time in a few days after breaking the records of all months of the year multiple times each.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2024011922044006762
“Extreme Heat, Drought Hit Jarrah Forests Hard.
“Western Australia‘s jarrah forests were unevenly impacted by the record-breaking 2023-2024 heatwave and subsequent drought, with some areas experiencing more severe tree die-off than others, according to a new study.”
https://www.miragenews.com/extreme-heat-drought-hit-jarrah-forests-hard-1622609/
“Intense heat waves directly threaten crops and native species [Australia].
“During Australia’s unprecedented heat wave in late January, air temperatures reached 50°C in inland South Australia. Days of sustained heat and hot nights did real damage. A flying fox colony was all but wiped out in South Australia, while Western Australian mango growers suffered major crop losses as fruit literally boiled.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-intense-threaten-crops-native-species.html
“Argentina’s pioneering glacier law on the line as Milei bets on copper rush.
“Argentine lawmakers are set to vote this week on government proposals to weaken a landmark law that bans mining on and around glaciers, days after President Javier Milei’s libertarian administration signed a critical minerals supply deal with the US.”
“HISTORIC HEAT IN PARAGUAY.
“Record after record… The capital pulverized its February record of highest temperature in history again, while QuyQuyho broke it for the 6th time – 42.6 [108.7F] Asuncion, 41.4C Airport 42.0 Quyquyhó. Brutal heat also in ARGENTINA – 44.0C Rivadavia.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2024307140383609294
“Heavy rain causes flooding in the capital and Greater São Paulo; video shows woman clinging to a lamppost after her car is swept away by the flood.
“According to the agency, the combination of heat and the arrival of the sea breeze favored the formation of unstable areas that caused heavy rain…”
“Mudslide in Alausí, Chimborazo, leaves injuries and other damage after the rains [Ecuador].
“A mudslide in Alausí, Chimborazo , remains active and under constant monitoring by emergency agencies following the intense rains recorded on February 18, 2026. Risk management officials reported on the human and material damage.”
“Insane summer temperatures in MEXICO – >40C [104F] at 1000m asl; >30C at 2500m asl – this would be a summer heat wave.
“FEBRUARY RECORDS – 33.6C Saltillo 1800m, 31.0C Tlaxcala 2224m. Tomorrow Texas can hit 100F!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2024312762764316952
“Wildfires rage across Oklahoma as conditions worsen.
“Gov. Kevin Stitt declared a state of emergency for all three affected counties Wednesday morning. He said two more local task forces would be deployed to Beaver County. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for nearly the entire state, except the southeast corner.”
https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2026-02-18/wildfires-rage-across-oklahoma-as-conditions-worsen
“70+ MPH Winds Trigger Deadly 30-Car Pileup In Colorado.
“Blinding winds whipped up a wall of dust on I-25 near Pueblo, triggering a deadly chain-reaction crash involving more than 30 vehicles… At least four people have been killed according to preliminary reports. Twenty-nine others have been transported to nearby hospitals…”
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2026-02-17-i-25-crash-colorado-dust-storm
“The seven Colorado River basin states missed a key federal deadline to reach a new water usage agreement, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is now likely to impose a solution of its own…
“Meanwhile, the key reservoirs of Lake Mead and Lake Powell are at critically low levels and continue to drop.”
“Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions…
“The new snow did not have time to bond to the earlier layer before the avalanche near Lake Tahoe killed at least eight backcountry skiers, said Craig Clements, a meteorology professor at San Jose State University, who has conducted avalanche research.”
“Despite La Niña, record warm winter wrapping up…
“For both Oregon and Washington, the two-month period of December to January was the warmest in 131 years of record-keeping… Washington’s snowpack is only 51% of average, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Oregon’s is even smaller, 30% of normal.”
https://chinookobserver.com/2026/02/18/despite-la-nina-record-warm-winter-wrapping-up/
“Climate change and persistent contaminants deliver one‑two punch to Arctic seals, study finds.
“New research shows a single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems already under pressure from environmental toxins, warn Simon Fraser University researchers.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-climate-persistent-contaminants-onetwo-arctic.html
“Thousands of Alien Species Could Invade the Arctic, Scientists Warn.
“More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard. Researchers used massive biodiversity datasets to map risk areas and improve early detection efforts.”
https://scitechdaily.com/thousands-of-alien-species-could-invade-the-arctic-scientists-warn/
“Naval shipwreck emerges in Sweden after being submerged for 400 years.
“A 17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually [actually record] low Baltic Sea levels, marking the latest centuries-old vessel to be found in the country’s waters.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/navy-shipwreck-emerges-baltic-sea-sweden/
“UK Banks Face New Era of Mortgage Risk as Flood Damage Soars.
“As the prospect of flood damage haunts an ever larger number of UK homes, the country’s banks are under growing pressure to prove they’re not underestimating the risk in their mortgage books.”
“The longest unbroken spell of rainy days recorded by University of Reading meteorologists ended on Tuesday after 37 consecutive days.
“The university’s Atmospheric Observatory said 17 February was the first day without measurable rainfall in the town since 11 January.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g28dwlz1eo
“Thousands of puffins starve to death during storms.
“Thousands of dead seabirds have washed up on the south west coast, Channel Islands and French beaches, a wildlife trust has said. The majority of the birds are puffins which had become starved and exhausted due to not being able to feed during the recent storms.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0g1l847ygo
“Man missing in Loire River as record rains lash France.
“A man has gone missing after his canoe capsized on the swollen Loire River as severe flooding hit western France, officials said Wednesday, while the country marked a record-breaking 35 [now 36] consecutive days of rainfall.”
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260218-man-missing-loire-river-record-rains-lash-france
“Widespread damage has been recorded in south-west France after Storm Pedro passed through overnight.
“Trees were uprooted and branches felled amid powerful winds… In Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) uprooted trees fell on parked cars, and gales of over 130 km/h [80mph] were recorded along the coastal areas of Île d’Oléron.”
“Avalanches, 88 ski deaths and a train crash: Why Europe’s mountains are proving so dangerous this winter…
“Weather conditions across the Alps have produced perfect conditions for huge slides, often triggered by just a single skier. But beyond that, researchers warn that climate change is also having an impact on the frequency of avalanches.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/avalanches-alps-deaths-europe-ski-snow-b2922799.html
“Climate Change Opens the Door for Painful Chikungunya Disease to Spread Across Europe.
“Researchers found that in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, conditions now allow chikungunya infections for more than half the year. In parts of western and central Europe, including France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, transmission could occur for several months annually.”
“A major study has confirmed that the flash flooding that devastated Valencia in 2024 was ‘intensified’ by human-made climate change.
“Spain is still desperately trying to heal its wounds and understand exactly what went wrong almost two years after one of its worst floods in history.”
“Severe Storms Batter Western Greece.
“Severe weather is sweeping across parts of Greece, triggering floods, landslides and widespread damage to roads, homes and businesses, while several communities remain cut off and some areas have been placed under a state of emergency.”
https://www.tovima.com/society/severe-storms-batter-western-greece/
“Record heat again in Gabon:
“Exceptional 36.2C [97.2F] yesterday at Franceville, a hill town in the interior of the country HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY (over 1 century of data). Gabon has been breaking and rebreaking records every month for years, multiple times each month.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2023716966415098338
“While the rainy season is being unusually cool in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, South Africa is like a factory of heat waves:
“Record hot day yesterday in the Southwest: HOTTEST FEBRUARY DAY 39.2 [102.6F] Kirstenbosch, 34.2 Cape Point. HOTTEST FEBRUARY NIGHT Mins: 23.9 Riversdale, 21.9 George.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2023737530445709425
“‘Let them shower in hotels’: Johannesburg Premier faces backlash amid water crisis…
“Some Johannesburg residents haven’t had a drop of water for more than three weeks straight: forced to travel to get water from municipal tankers and washing with buckets. Schools and hospitals are also affected.”
“Somalia’s disaster agency warns of worsening drought.
“The drought has devastated crops and livestock across Somalia, forcing local authorities and aid agencies to call for urgent assistance. Moalim urged the Somali government and international partners to act quickly to provide relief…”
https://shabellemedia.com/somalias-disaster-agency-warns-of-worsening-drought/
“From Pakistan Floods to California Drought: Climate Risks Shake the Cotton Industry.
“The weather is no longer just small talk—it has become an unpredictable force reshaping global industries. Climate volatility is increasingly affecting farmers, textile manufacturers and brands, disrupting supply chains and challenging long-term planning.”
“Rice emerges as the biggest source of farm emissions worldwide.
“In 2020, global cropland emissions reached 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent… Nearly half of that total came from East Asia and the Pacific, and rice alone accounted for 43 percent of global cropland emissions.”
https://www.earth.com/news/rice-emerges-as-the-biggest-source-of-farm-emissions-worldwide/
“Scientists warn flowering-stage heat stress could devastate wheat production…
“New research suggests that short periods of extreme heat and drought at this critical stage of development could become one of the biggest threats to wheat production in the decades ahead. Flowering is the stage when wheat plants set grain, making it crucial in determining final yield and overall harvest size.”
“Rising temperatures threaten coffee yields worldwide…
“Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia and Indonesia – which supply 75% of the world’s coffee – experienced on average 57 additional days of temperatures exceeding the threshold of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).”
“An El Niño is brewing…
“…prepare for bedlam… The impact of this new warming surge will be especially profound because this El Niño will probably provide the final proof that global warming is actually accelerating sickeningly from its previously merely alarming pace.”
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino-is-brewing
“El Niño update: Warm water is now surfacing in the eastern Pacific near Ecuador and Peru — and there’s a lot more coming.
“Subsurface waters are 3˚C to 5˚C above-average in the western and central Pacific. That warmth is headed east and will probably fuel an El Niño Costero.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2024144377422233627
“No Wall Will Be High Enough to Keep Climate Refugees Out…
“The tropics and Southern hemisphere will be worst affected by rising heat prompting desperate climate refugees to defy immigration barriers and travel north into the United States and Western Europe.”
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Wow, nearly 50 links today. This El Nino should be epic, how much heat will the ocean barf up?
We may also be shifting to a positive Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which would add yet more heat to the system. I recall Leon Simons is very concerned about that.
“No Wall Will Be High Enough to Keep Climate Refugees Out…”
That’s so obviously true, it almost makes me suspect it’s meant to gloss over more difficult questions. For example, at the point where climate change would get bad enough to trigger these mass migrations, will the destinations mentioned by this article be feasible as safer havens? Might there be some connection between the prosperity of countries which are lucrative destinations for emigration at present, and the poverty of countries where that emigration occurs? The author very gracefully pirouettes themselves and their readers away from that domain of enquiry. And who can blame them? Ignorance is bliss.
Oh wait I forgot to finish the last sentence. Ignorance is bliss. But since that is clearly unattainable inside a house on fire, the next best thing is to know as little as possible.
Jupiviv, if AMOC slows dramatically we’ll have panicked hordes heading the other way:
“Iceland saw record temperatures last year. So why are scientists predicting a ‘deep freeze’?
“A new report, published on the Nordic Council’s website on 5 February, warns that the AMOC’s collapse could trigger “extreme impacts” in Nordic countries…”
https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/02/18/iceland-saw-record-temperatures-last-year-so-why-are-scientists-predicting-a-deep-freeze
Btw, the picture I chose is of hundreds of migrants storming the border fence that separates Morocco from Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta; this took place a few years ago.
To the Colorado river disaster we can also add the Nevada lake problem .
““The last fish was caught in 2013 or 2015, I believe. When the fish died, the fishing died; boating, recreation, that all just disappeared,” Mineral County Commissioner Tony Ruse said.
“There were restaurants here. There were hotels here. There were businesses here. Now? All gone, just 300 residents struggling.”
A Mineral County native, Ruse returned in 2020 after working for 34 years as a chef in Europe and Asia, including 20 years in South Korea, to open The Big Horn Crossing, a restaurant and convenience store in a shuttered bait shop. It’s now Walker Lake’s only remaining retail business.
“It was dead. There was nothing,” he told The Epoch Times. “We should be selling bait here. We should be selling fishing supplies. There should be boats parked in our driveway right now.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-a-water-war-is-brewing-over-a-drying-lake-in-nevada-5983269?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge
Thanks, Ravi. That is new to me if perhaps unsurprising in that part of the world.
“The Great Salt Lake is a window into the dangers of climate change for a region characterized by a lack of water. The Great Salt Lake is a massive saline lake located near Salt Lake City, Utah with a unique ecology that the Utah Department of Natural Resources describes as “rich web of relationships between people, land, water, food and survival.”
“Today, that “rich web” is vanishing. The Great Salt Lake is drying up.”
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/lake-crisis-reality-climate-denial
Here in the US the ABC network nightly news with David Muir is most watched, according to them. Surprise to see a mention of climate change in their reporting
Peter Kyne, a Charles Darwin University conservation biologist independent of the research center, agreed that a shark had never before been recorded so far south.
Climate change and warming oceans could potentially be driving sharks to the Southern Hemisphere’s colder waters, but there was limited data on range changes near Antarctica because of the region’s remoteness, Kyne said.
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/surprise-shark-caught-camera-time-antarcticas-freezing-deep-130254872
It was said “matter of factly” briefly as it was the today’s new normal. I was surprised it was put on the program at all with the new guidelines being put forth…
If you know what I mean
Vince, I pondered including an article about this but I wasn’t sure whether it was linked to climate change. It seems the jury’s still out. Intriguing though…
I’m just shocked David Muir actually utter those words, climate change on the national broadcast…Ump not going to like that
I can really relate to those puffins.. not starved yet but they want us to apparently.
Otherwise disaster report up and down.
Truth Wizard, it’s mind-blowing how close we all are to food insecurity now.
“How humanity’s Garden of Eden has been trashed within a lifetime… The UK government’s new assessment describes a world in which food production systems may fail simultaneously across multiple regions; where geopolitical tensions flare over water and fertile land; where millions may be forced to move as their environments collapse…”
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/how-humanitys-garden-of-eden-has-been-trashed-within-a-lifetime-5604084
Thanks Pan.
Also in “denim sustainability” (I followed the cotton link) is a heart-warming tale, with an unintelligible title, of saving the planet one pair of disposable pants at a time:
“Denim Deal Taps Green Story to Strengthen Digital Product Passports and Circularity Reporting”
https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-sustainability/denim-deal-green-story-digital-product-passports-1234813533/
Thank you, Leaf. Consider my heart warmed. I also look fabulous in denim, so it’s a double win.
Pan post above: “‘Let them shower in hotels’: Johannesburg Premier faces backlash amid water crisis…
ME: This is just a sad situation that will eventually be a global problem. The poor people [who never had piped water] want access to pressurized, clean water at their household taps with little to no understanding of the giant infrastructure & monumental costs required to bring this about. Now compound this dilemma with insufficient rainfall to even fill the existing dilapidated water system.
At this late date of early Seneca Decline: hauling water jugs for bucket baths & cooking is the best they can do as even the water tankers will stop delivery in the not-too-distant future.
The photo of the guy holding the placard proclaiming, ‘Basic Human Rights Violation, No Access to Clean Running Water’ is sadly mistaken. Clean running water at scale is only possible on the upslope of the Carbon Pulse. We are heading back to a hunter-gatherer existence [if we are lucky!] where we hand scoop water from a stream to slake our thirst.
No water pumps, no filtration, no chemical or UV treatment, no countless miles of pipes, no sewage treatment, not even water jugs to haul up 18 flights of stairs to pressurize the ground floor shower.
A hot shower will be seen as the equivalent of an astronaut on the moon. Count your blessings [me included!] while this marvel still is available.
Have you moved ten gallons of water today? Do these poor women look hot & exhausted?
https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/water-security-load-shedding.jpg
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
“Count your blessings [me included!] while this marvel still is available.”
Bob, this is very good advice. It is hard, though, when collapse is still an abstraction, and we are so habituated to the creature comforts of modernity.
Oh, just saw this posted by Gail over OFW, suppose she saw this one coming…
We see a fracturing in the global political order in general, and there are, of course, reflections of that on the energy scene. Different countries are choosing different paths in terms of energy and climate change,” Birol told the Financial Times in an interview.
Climate change was “moving down the international policy agenda,” Birol said this week, summarizing the latest trends in energy policies. That move down the agenda has even reached China, which this year reduced subsidies for electric vehicles, which immediately affected sales, leading to a 20% monthly drop.
By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com
Suppose you folks here are correct, every last drop will be burned..like Mrs Olson said,
“Good to the last drop”
The operative word being fracturing, the industry that fractured the myth of fungible oil. The product produced by the US is called light tight oil for a reason: it does not have the necessary density to produce diesel, hence the US Wehrmacht’s stooping to piracy on the high seas to obtain the necessary heavy oil to power the industrial-scale agricultural machinery that turns food into a gasoline adulterant.
Techno-terrorism: the not-so-new world disorder.
Irina Slav of Oil Price is herself a raging climate change denier.
Re climate change moving down the international policy agenda, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has a (somewhat confused) piece in the Telegraph, which contains this rather nice quote:
“It is the paradox of our age that anti-green backlash is sweeping the West… just as the evidence hardens and as we move closer to runaway feedback loops that ought to scare the wits out of us.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/17/trump-is-pushing-the-world-closer-to-climate-catastrophe/
Rob, exactly the same pun occurred to me. Great minds etc.
https://youtu.be/EDvnkcqGt0g?si=n6gxO90FQBkrVAYV
Wow amazing interview about energy and economics and climate change
Thnx Heather … our favorite linkage. I used to have a bad punsterism:
From the shores of Triple-e’s (energy, economics & environment) insisting that they were inextricably linked. How silly of me.
Thank you, Heather. That is the very clever Prof Steve Keen, famous for accurately predicting the 2008 crisis…
Youtube lured me in with this one. I DID NOT watch the whole thing. Watch 33:45 to 33:45
Confessions of a Former Climate Activist
She days deaths from natural disasters have gone down 99% in the last 100 years. “Despite climate warming”. Oh wow, we are saved!! All this climate hysteria is a giant con!!
/sarc
OMFG. I don’t need to explain to you folks here what a ridiculous comment that is. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OybheweZGxw
… I assume she failed to mention the meteoric rise in deaths from man-made disasters, which now include those from what used to be called natural, but are now anything but (are the deaths in the Colorado traffic imbroglio in today’s compendium natural or man-made casualties?).
Oh, well. She’ll have to live with having promulgated that falsely comforting worldview. Speaking of activists:
“Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said on Wednesday it was under federal US investigation and that some of its members had been visited by FBI agents…”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/18/extinction-rebellion-fbi-trump-environment
Good point. I imagine that as a self- proclaimed climate optimist, she would say “There’s always been high winds on the high plains.” I wish she’d take a look at this whole thread.
I wish the 147,000 people who viewed that interview in the last 2 days would read a week of Pan’s climate threads!!
She was a doofus when she was lobbying to end plastic straws and she’s a doofus now for ignoring reality.
Pan can cook. As I read today’s listing, I marveled at how many places in the world I’ve never heard of before (2 dangling prepositions are better than one), often accompanied by a lovely photo, or a dark unsettling image.
But although Pan has a decided format and subject, the overall just that the rest of the world matters, not in a hippy-dippy global village empty rhetoric sort of way, but because what happens on the planet SHARE, (despite every nation now seeing which one can be the first to demonstrate the Me First, two-year-oldism that’s gripped the international community , a plague on humanity spread by the same person who called the plague of Covid a hoax, yet insisted that the pandemic that was not was somehow “China’s Fault”) effects us because it informs us.
So it’s not only that we “hear here” what we usually don’t otherwise, but that the overall sensibility of it is what I had hoped the Nightly News would aspire to.
Like a flower 🌸 sprouting in the middle of a pile of manure.
How awed can I be?
Bless you, Rob, for those kind words and that very flattering analogy. 💚
Hello Rob,
When I get a chance to go face-to-face [F2F] with someone new at a brewpub, I like to go with the full shock & awe method like Bush II did with cruise missiles into Baghdad. My initial conversational ‘icebreaker’ goal is to shatter off huge chunks of frozen, incorrect thinking.
I may start off with a full-on economic slap to their face by mentioning how Social Security [SS] will be insolvent by 2032, then asking them what they plan to do as this will crash the stock & bond markets. But I also point out that the Everything Bubble will probably crash well before 2032 so SS insolvency will be the last of our worries.
Now that my target’s eyes have started to widen like a deer caught in the headlights, I like to bring up the reindeer of St Matthews Island Overshoot & Collapse predicament and how we are doing the exact same thing. As my target’s fear impulse starts to rise this is a good time to mention that PMs rising price is a good fear indicator of our global situation.
Of course, I never fail to ask them how many water jugs they presently own because when the Texas aquifers go belly up having a wheelbarrow is preferable to hand-carrying H2O. This is when I might offer to buy them a beer so that as their mug goes dry, I can point out how depletion of nonrenewable FFs & minerals is exactly the same thing.
They usually agree with me so I point out how smart they are and how it is all just common sense if they can mentally enlarge their thought boundaries. I am trying to get them hooked before denial sets in.
Then I jot down on a bar napkin some key websites [C & E, of course!] to show that I am not a lone, raving maniac, but actually just another informed soul among millions trying to bring the rest of humanity up-to-speed.
Lastly, I thank them for showing great emotional maturity to study this O & C, and all its symptoms like CC, sea-level rise, and wet-bulb deaths, so that they can tell their family & friends. Nobody wants to admit that they are emotionally immature.
That way when I see them again, I can ask them how their research is going, and if they have any questions. I accept the fact that I alienate some people, but that is their problem. They shouldn’t blame the messenger but take a good look at themselves in a mirror so they can find their immaturity.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Entertaining, Bob! 🤣 I hope you don’t get shot!