Extreme urgency
As you know this blog is about extreme sport – I think we have now been talking and writing and reporting about extreme sports – spelt XTREME – far cooler – (pun not intended, see below) for over a year and occasionally my co-editor or I will go off on a rant about ’something’.
Of course the cool thing about the word extreme is that it is both an adjective – there was an extreme drought – and a noun – the drought was extreme. As this site evolves, and believe me big things are happening, we will use the word extreme in its many different guises and so develop the brand. Of course the adjective will be more useful – just think of the number of extremities you could have – after sport it could be food or fashion, weather or wealth, hotels or holidays, sandstorms or suffering, poverty or philanthropy and so I could go on adnauseum, which I won’t but I trust you get the drift.
Today I revert to one of our more favoured extremes and that is climate and want to relate below some of the extremes that we are experiencing and more pertinently the effects of these extremes:
at the current rate of carbon emissions global temperatures will rise by 2 degrees centigrade by 2050 – big deal I hear you shout, then read on numbskull:
Most people reading this will live in a degree of comfort that will probably mean they just run the air conditioner for a few more hours a day but let me tell you – and its not only me in truth, far worthier individuals and organisations like the UK’s defence chiefs – also fear the consequences are mass migration. You will never have experienced starvation or thirst, nor have I, but what are you going to do if you are starving or dying of thirst. You are gonna get off your boney butt and move.
Migration of 1-3 billion people – where to – who are they? Well they will come to where there is plenty – do I need to say more and they will be ‘the poor’. (Actually they are people like you and I, they eat, drink, sleep and procreate a family but maybe they don’t have a BMW). This will cause huge tensions – it is what is hapening in Darfur, on a much smaller scale, migration as a result of water shortages. And what is Darfur – it should be called Daftwar – yes it is WAR.
OMG I get weak at the thought – come on guys, we’ve got to change, we’ve got to put pressure on our ‘world improvers’ to get off their fat comfortable asses and indeed improve the world.
Enough said for today – I leave you with a video from Darfur – thankyou rosary films.
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