Without withstanding the religious nutters in Tehran, across the globe in Russia we have a megalomaniac in charge of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal sitting in the Kremlin. In Tel Aviv, a war criminal sits in the Knesset as the head of the Israeli Government, and in Ukraine stands everybody’s friend – I don’t think – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, perhaps the least harmful of these madmen. He only uses neo-Nazi troops in his war with Russia, claiming there are no ‘Nazi links’ in Ukraine which plainly there are. This is a blatant lie because the Azov Regiment of the Ukrainian Army claim to “model themselves on the DAS Reich Regiment of the Waffen SS” one of Hitlers elite regiments. Zelenskyy is probably the least significant of the world’s leaders who we stupidly allow to rule over us, destroy our lives, and essentially constantly threaten to burn our house down! Perhaps the man with the least functioning faculties in his top deck is Donald Trump who in my view is suffering from criminal insanity, a couple of cards short of a full deck, and, for his own good and that of his family, should be hospitalised. Some of the mental institutions in the USA are very good if you have the money to pay. Maybe he could retire there out of harms way for the next ten-twenty years, the asylum sounds a fitting end for Trump.
With all these fruit salads in charge and weaker sycophants in lower world positions the future does no look great for us mere mortals. We have mega billionaires, many would argue the true world governments, people like Elon Musk, who intends to commercialise space travel, Richard Branson who also has similar ideas on space movement and many rich individuals who have entered the space cowboy race. The climatic damage these loonies are causing to the planet, in the name of making money under the guise of scientific research, are seldom if ever mentioned. All we mere mortals are encouraged to do is look on in wonder at these marvels of engineering the space rockets designed and constructed by others so these great men can amass huge profits! Down here on earth the amount of domestic aviation travel, a major contributor to planetary vandalism, is on the increase making flights more cost effective for business to make money. People who live near airports with concerns about noise are given scant regard as more and more 747 jets fly overhead. In an interview on 2nd April on Virgin One Ryanair Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, called the residents living near Dublin Airport liars. He claimed the “noise level” is well within the “legal limits” and the residents, who have fuck all better to do than spend money on expensive companies, are making their readings up! They certainly are not as professional companies took the reading which were well above the agreed level. O’Leary makes a fortune out of Ryanair and the more flights he can get the more money his pockets can boast.
With all these fruit salads in charge and weaker sycophants in lower world positions the future does no look great for us mere mortals. We have mega billionaires, many would argue the true world governments, people like Elon Musk, who intends to commercialise space travel, Richard Branson who also has similar ideas on space movement and many rich individuals who have entered the space cowboy race. The climatic damage these loonies are causing to the planet, in the name of making money under the guise of scientific research, are seldom if ever mentioned. All we mere mortals are encouraged to do is look on in wonder at these marvels of engineering the space rockets designed and constructed by others so these great men can amass huge profits! Down here on earth the amount of domestic aviation travel, a major contributor to planetary vandalism, is on the increase making flights more cost effective for business to make money. People who live near airports with concerns about noise are given scant regard as more and more 747 jets fly overhead. In an interview on 2nd April on Virgin One Ryanair Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, called the residents living near Dublin Airport liars. He claimed the “noise level” is well within the “legal limits” and the residents, who have fuck all better to do than spend money on expensive companies, are making their readings up! They certainly are not as professional companies took the reading which were well above the agreed level. O’Leary makes a fortune out of Ryanair and the more flights he can get the more money his pockets can boast.
We often hear on various news bulletins so-called experts talking about the damage aviation travel does to the climate. Firstly, aviation fuel is very high octane, and is a major source of damage to our atmosphere. We have experts arguing for fewer passengers and no more runways, both sensible arguments except to Michael O’Leary. Then on the next clip of the same bulletin another expert will come on and without referring to the previous people speaking about passenger reduction they will rant on in order to remain “competitive” we need More passengers at “Dublin Airport”, not less. At the moment a “passenger cap” exists at Dublin Airport but that looks likely to be smashed at the insistence of the Americans – who else?
Putting domestic aviation travel into the shadows is space exploration. During the 1950s and 60s the USSR and USA vied for space superiority. Ignorance could be partially blamed back then but what is the excuse now? As mentioned, Musk is aiming to commercialise space travel and his real aim is to find another planet for a few super rich people to live on, the same gang who are fucking this planet up in the process. Be it Musk, Branson, or any other rich parasite who sends rockets through the atmosphere they are causing irreparable damage to the earth’s atmospheres five layers. These layers are delicately positioned and once damaged will not repair. Coupled with Musk and his gang of space cowboys we also have Agencies like NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in the US, ROSCOSMOS in Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) now joined by Japan, the UAE, India all jumping onboard the bandwagon and all helping our planet to the graveyard.
Putting domestic aviation travel into the shadows is space exploration. During the 1950s and 60s the USSR and USA vied for space superiority. Ignorance could be partially blamed back then but what is the excuse now? As mentioned, Musk is aiming to commercialise space travel and his real aim is to find another planet for a few super rich people to live on, the same gang who are fucking this planet up in the process. Be it Musk, Branson, or any other rich parasite who sends rockets through the atmosphere they are causing irreparable damage to the earth’s atmospheres five layers. These layers are delicately positioned and once damaged will not repair. Coupled with Musk and his gang of space cowboys we also have Agencies like NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in the US, ROSCOSMOS in Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) now joined by Japan, the UAE, India all jumping onboard the bandwagon and all helping our planet to the graveyard.
The latest mission to be shown off to an ever-gullible global public is from NASA. The mission is called Artemis II (Greek Goddess of the Hunt) and is their first to lift off for 52 years. It was on all our screens for fools to marvel at and the astronauts to crack jokes about going for a piss in a confined space. What the gullible global audience perhaps did not give a second thought to was when this piece of equipment lifted off it gave off the equivalent of at very least 28, probably 40, 747 Jets taking off simultaneously. Imagine the climate damage this lift off alone caused without taking into account the commercial travel plans of Musk and the likes in the future? Many of these crafts never actually lift off, they fail on the ground blowing up and killing all on board but also blasting huge gushes of flames and bilge into our atmosphere. And we are supposed to marvel at these fantastic brains which make such missions possible! Would it not be better to listen to these undoubtedly brilliant minds putting their heads together with the likes of David Attenborough to calculate ways of countering the much lower in severity natural climate change? Not the great fortunes to be amassed by the tiny few granted but I bet they’d feel much better.
Elon Musk is obsessed with finding a compatible planet to live on and start all over again, not in the stone-age, but where we are now! Musk is already talking of re-populating Mars, which suggests the planet was once populated, all good stuff for the fictional Professor, Quatermass in the 1967 science fiction film, but to spend billions making it come true? People down here on earth need food, medical supplies, medical operations which could easily be done with this kind of money available. Just so old Elon has an idea of how huge his task in finding another planet with earths peculiarities there are an estimated two trillion galaxies in the universe! Within these galaxies we are looking at 100 billion to one trillion (1,000 billion) planets, each one having to be explored. There is no guarantee any of them will share the same characteristics with our earth and therefore support human life, none at all. Optimists claim at least one will support life as we know it and they are possibly correct but finding that illusive planet makes the needle in a haystack look easy, there are far more pressing issues on earth to be dealing with. The law of averages suggests this may well be true so, go on, which one? This money, as just wasted by NASA, would be better off given to poorer countries so they can develop their medical facilities and save lives. Will the good people who own billions, much of which has been accumulated through the exploitation of labour do this? No, being good Christians – which they are not – they will keep their money and waste it on pointless space explorations.
When the atmosphere becomes damaged it cannot be repaired, at least not by man. The most important atmospheric layer* to us is the Troposphere which controls our weather, temperatures, and melting ice at the poles, it contains 80% of all water vapour. Ice is already coming off certain areas in chunks the size of Wales, a small country, and this will get worse. More damage has just been done with this NASA craft taking off and penetrating through the five atmospheric layers. Then there is all the debris left behind in space and, in the case of Musk, the re-entering once again numerous times causing untold damage to the five layers but particularly the Troposphere. People may have noticed the seasonal floods getting worse every time. The time will come, and it may not be too long away now, when these flood waters will have nowhere to go as the seas will have risen too high. With ice continuing to melt the tides will continue to rise and flood waters will be permanent. For low lying countries like Holland, Belgium and Ireland the long-term prospects are frightening. Within 100 years these and other low-lying countries will be history. At a more local level back in the late nineteen-sixties and early-seventies farmers began digging out trees, bushes, hedges to make larger fields and increase profits. What they were digging out were natural drainage systems and now they get yearly floods and crop failures. Serves the greedy bastards right but their greed pales into insignificance compared to the Elon Musks, Richard Bransons and their gang’s exploits.
The news bulletins do put sane people on to give their take on the subject. Their views are seldom heeded, not as sexy as people making fortunes while the rest perish, but they do make more sense if people would listen and act. RTE News interviewed Dr Peter Thorne of Climate Change Advisory Forum who said adamantly its “time for action, we’ve known of climate change for two decades”, implying only those who do not want to see could miss the changes. Dr Thorne is perfectly correct but how many will listen let alone act? Karl Marx spoke on this subject at the time of the Second Industrial Revolution referring to Ireland:
Elon Musk is obsessed with finding a compatible planet to live on and start all over again, not in the stone-age, but where we are now! Musk is already talking of re-populating Mars, which suggests the planet was once populated, all good stuff for the fictional Professor, Quatermass in the 1967 science fiction film, but to spend billions making it come true? People down here on earth need food, medical supplies, medical operations which could easily be done with this kind of money available. Just so old Elon has an idea of how huge his task in finding another planet with earths peculiarities there are an estimated two trillion galaxies in the universe! Within these galaxies we are looking at 100 billion to one trillion (1,000 billion) planets, each one having to be explored. There is no guarantee any of them will share the same characteristics with our earth and therefore support human life, none at all. Optimists claim at least one will support life as we know it and they are possibly correct but finding that illusive planet makes the needle in a haystack look easy, there are far more pressing issues on earth to be dealing with. The law of averages suggests this may well be true so, go on, which one? This money, as just wasted by NASA, would be better off given to poorer countries so they can develop their medical facilities and save lives. Will the good people who own billions, much of which has been accumulated through the exploitation of labour do this? No, being good Christians – which they are not – they will keep their money and waste it on pointless space explorations.
When the atmosphere becomes damaged it cannot be repaired, at least not by man. The most important atmospheric layer* to us is the Troposphere which controls our weather, temperatures, and melting ice at the poles, it contains 80% of all water vapour. Ice is already coming off certain areas in chunks the size of Wales, a small country, and this will get worse. More damage has just been done with this NASA craft taking off and penetrating through the five atmospheric layers. Then there is all the debris left behind in space and, in the case of Musk, the re-entering once again numerous times causing untold damage to the five layers but particularly the Troposphere. People may have noticed the seasonal floods getting worse every time. The time will come, and it may not be too long away now, when these flood waters will have nowhere to go as the seas will have risen too high. With ice continuing to melt the tides will continue to rise and flood waters will be permanent. For low lying countries like Holland, Belgium and Ireland the long-term prospects are frightening. Within 100 years these and other low-lying countries will be history. At a more local level back in the late nineteen-sixties and early-seventies farmers began digging out trees, bushes, hedges to make larger fields and increase profits. What they were digging out were natural drainage systems and now they get yearly floods and crop failures. Serves the greedy bastards right but their greed pales into insignificance compared to the Elon Musks, Richard Bransons and their gang’s exploits.
The news bulletins do put sane people on to give their take on the subject. Their views are seldom heeded, not as sexy as people making fortunes while the rest perish, but they do make more sense if people would listen and act. RTE News interviewed Dr Peter Thorne of Climate Change Advisory Forum who said adamantly its “time for action, we’ve known of climate change for two decades”, implying only those who do not want to see could miss the changes. Dr Thorne is perfectly correct but how many will listen let alone act? Karl Marx spoke on this subject at the time of the Second Industrial Revolution referring to Ireland:
if Ireland were to sink only 500 feet, the mountain ranges alone would be left, forming two semi-circular groups of islands on either side of a broad sound stretching from Dublin to Galway.
This can equally be applied to the more likely 500 feet rise in sea levels which is happening before our very eyes and are being accelerated by the activities of the capitalist class and their play toys like the latest NASA craft. And still we mere mortals look on with admiration at these great marvels to ingenuity like watching with admiration the arsonist who politely tells residents he has come to incinerate their homes!!
*There are another four layers apart from the Troposphere to earths atmosphere; the:
*There are another four layers apart from the Troposphere to earths atmosphere; the:
Stratosphere (12-50 km): Contains the Ozone that absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation; temperatures increase with altitude. The Mesosphere (50-85 km): The coldest layer, where most meteors burn up on entry. Thermosphere (85-690 km): A very thin layer where temperatures increase significantly with height; auras (northern/southern lights) occur here. Exosphere (690-10,000 km): The outermost layer, merging with interplanetary space, where satellites orbit.
Damage to any of these layers could be catastrophic for earth as present changing weather conditions are living proof of. The Troposphere is, for us, the most imminent and important but the other four play a significant role in the maintenance of our planet. What do we do? Applaud those who seek, intentionally or otherwise, to destroy them!!
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| Caoimhin O’Muraile is Independent Socialist Republican and Marxist. |
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