Remember the repetitious media coverage in November 2019 about the flooding in Venice caused by climate change?
Have you noticed all the local headline coverage two months later about the canals running dry?
Me neither. Curious isn’t it?
Doesn’t float my boat!
Estimates suggest climate-related disasters killed around 50 times more people a century ago, and in the 1870s the death toll was almost 10 times higher again, underscoring the long-term decline in climate disaster mortality.
Despite the breathless coverage of scorching heat in Europe and the US, the global reality is far less dramatic – most of the planet’s population is experiencing typical or cooler conditions.
It is difficult to see how the idea that there is a climate ‘emergency’ can continue to be taken seriously given that it lacks any substantial or convincing proof.
Give us a trillion dollars, says UN’s Guterres.
From Dublin to Sydney, these pioneers laboured in obscurity.
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The word for today is… allegory (noun) - 1: the expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic figures and actions 2: a symbolic representation Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Allegory is the expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic fictional figures and
Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
