Record level of CO2 output!!

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Good to see the world is taking global warming seriously!!

Who cares about the planet while there’s a buck to be made!

Shortly they’ll be bleating about floods, wild fires, droughts, hurricanes extraordinary weather and sea level rises – but it’ll be nothing to do with climate change!!

We are truly the dumbest animal on the planet. We elect the stupidest, most ignorant to lead us. We invent science to create incredible machines and understand the universe, then we ignore it and pretend that illiterate nincompoops know more than experts. We proceed to misuse the science to destroy our own environment.

You can’t get more stupid than that!

A Cop Out??

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There have been 5 great mass extinctions (we’re the 6th)!

According to Trump global warming is a scam! So who does he think is benefitting? Mind you, he has made a lot of money from the oil industry and much political gain out of his support of old polluting industries.

Burn the world!! Why don't we?

The Greed of a few. The Ignorance of many.

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Somehow we have become dissociated from nature!

Climate Change, what Climate Change?

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What has caused the Far-Right Riots?

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Well to start with we’ve had fourteen years of Tory austerity creating poverty and ruin in our cities. Deprived communities become full of resentment.

We’ve had Brexit with its torrent of xenophobic/racist propaganda stoking up fear and hate.

We’ve had huge immigration that has altered the feel of many areas of the country. A lack of integration doesn’t help.

We’ve had Islamic terrorism

We’ve had ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Libya, Sudan and now Ukraine – creating millions of displaced people.

We’ve had global warming creating large swathes of uninhabitable land.

We’ve had the rise of trouble-making populists like Johnson, Trump, Farage, Bolsonaro, Modi, Oban, Le Penne, Meloni and the rest, who have demonised immigrants.

We have opportunist rabble-rousers like Tommy Robinson.

We have conspiracy theorists spreading lies – like Alex Jones.

We have that manchild Musk and the whole of social media undermining truth and reality.

It’s going to take a lot to sort all this mess out!!

An Antitheist’s Prayer For The Planet

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An Antitheist’s Prayer For The Planet

In the chaos of a warming world,
Ecological disaster unfolds before our eyes
Species slip away into the shadows of extinction
Nature on the run, fleeing from our careless hands

Food webs unravel, connections severed
Habitats lay in ruins, destroyed by our greed
No thought for the future, no concern for the consequences
We march forward blindly, leaving chaos in our wake

No harmony, no intelligence in our actions
Man is not apart from nature, but a part of it
Yet we act with cruelty and heartlessness
Ignoring the cries of the earth, the pleas of the wild

We must remember our place in this delicate balance
We must tread lightly, with reverence and respect
For the world around us is a fragile web of life
And we hold the power to protect or destroy

Let us choose wisely, let us choose with love
For the future of our planet, of all living beings
Depends on the choices we make today
In a world where man and nature must find harmony once more.

Opher – 2. 4. 2024

The myth is that our nomadic hunter gatherer ancestors cared about nature; the truth is they didn’t.

We’ve always been cruel and heartless, unintelligently hunting to extinction, killing for pleasure.

Global Warming?? What global warming??

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The earth burns. Places become uninhabitable. Crops die. Livestock dies. People die. Mass migration. Changes in airstreams. Floods. Forest fires. Heatwaves. Coral bleaching. Ice melting. Sea levels rising.

It’s OK. It’s not happening.

Anthropocene Apocalypse – A World Crisis?

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Anthropocene Apocalypse – a world crisis?

As the world population soars towards a projected 10 Billion.

As the world’s mammals have been decimated to 44% of what they were 40 years ago!

As the world’s invertebrate population has crashed by nearly half in the last forty years!

As the elephant and lion now join the tiger, rhino and jaguar on the endangered list!

Are we approaching a day when the natural world will be nothing more than a footnote in the history books?

Will we be showing our children and grandchildren the remnants of our wild-life in zoos?

Will we be pollinating our flowers by hand?

Does anybody actually care?

You can read about my own observations and feelings about this in my book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthropocene-Apocalypse-Opher-Goodwin/dp/1502427079/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412977406&sr=1-4&keywords=opher+Goodwin

Please give it a read and pass it round to all your friends. It is time we did something about it. We can alter the zeitgeist!

Poetry – Animals Burn

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Animals Burn

While animals fry and fires burn

The perpetrators never seem to learn.

Lands flood and other lands dry

But some people never ask why.

So, profits are made and trees fall

And they do not care at all.

The lies are spread in a cynical way

And the future looks decidedly grey.

Green laws are repealed,

The truth concealed,

Money stashed,

Habitats crashed.

Time for the great backlash!!

OUR PLANET IS WORTH MORE THAN HARD CASH!!!

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I wrote in response to seeing the thousands of poor animals fried alive by the massive bush fires in Australia. The highways were littered with the carcasses of dead animals as they desperately tried to flee the flames. They were cook alive.

Tell Me Lies About Global Warming

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Tell Me Lies About Global Warming

Tell Me Lies About Global Warming,

                About how it’s just temporary weather,

                                Nothing alarming.

It’s not due to us.

                The carbon dioxide

                                Is not harming.

Tell me something calming.

I don’t want to hear about forest fires

                About terrible floods

Or the droughts, dying crops and funeral pyres.

I don’t want to think about mass migration,

                Heat stroke, livestock deaths

Or the effects on our nation.

Tell Me Lies About Global Warming,

                About how it’s just temporary weather,

                                Nothing alarming.

It’s not due to us

                The carbon dioxide

                                Is not harming.

Tell me something calming.

I don’t want to hear about existential threats,

                Sea levels rising,

Or increasing debts.

I don’t want to invest in Green energy

The scientists are lying.

It won’t affect me!

Tell Me Lies About Global Warming,

                About how it’s just temporary weather,

                                Nothing alarming.

It’s not due to us

                The carbon dioxide

                                Is not harming.

Tell me something calming.

I don’t want to hear about explosive heat

                Parched ground

Or the melting ice sheet.

I don’t want to think about dying forests,

Burning creatures,

Or the ends we might meet.

Tell Me Lies About Global Warming,

                About how it’s just temporary weather,

                                Nothing alarming.

It’s not due to us.

                The carbon dioxide

                                Is not harming.

Tell me something calming.

All this Green drive is just a big con

To make money out of us when

There’s nothing wrong.

The world goes in cycles

It’ll rectify itself soon

Then they’ll be singing a different tune.

Greenhouse gasses and deforestation

Have nothing to do with our own nation.

Population size is a red herring so they can push it.

They just make it all up to gain more profit.

Scientists are bought and politicians lie –

But there’s a strange heat coming out of the sky.

So tell Me Lies About Global Warming,

                About how it’s just temporary weather,

                                Nothing alarming.

It’s not due to us

                The carbon dioxide

                                Is not harming.

Tell me something calming.

Opher – 28.7.2022

They’d rather believe Trump who was busy lining his pockets with billions – the biggest con artist on the planet.

They’d rather believe the internet and propaganda put out by the oil, gas and coal industry than experts who have spent their life studying the climate.

They know that all the scientists are bought by the green industries. They know that the whole green industry is a con to make money out of us.

There will be no catastrophic sea level rises, no extreme heat and drought, no mass crop failures making countries uninhabitable, driving billions out.

The greenhouse effect is good. We could do with a bit more warmth. It won’t affect local weather. It won’t shift sea and air currents. Glaciers aren’t melting. The world is not heating.

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Here in cuckoo land everything is fine.