Monday, September 26, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Five years of Fukushima Daiichi
1) The downplaying of the worst industrial disaster of all time Fukushima Daiichi and
2) The possibility of near term human extinction as a result of runaway,abrupt climate change.
As part of that discussion I omitted to mention the consequence that after human extinction, which a number of other presenters mentioned in passing, the fact that we will see over 430 nuclear power plant melt downs and even worse 1200 spent fuel pool fires.
I have just toured the North
Island of NZ with U.S. climate and methane researcher Jennifer Hynes author of
“ The Arctic Methane Monster” https://jenniferhynes99.wordpress.com/the-arctic-methane-monsters-rapid-rise/
and “ The Demise of the Arctic” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19JBY0kNmo
, raising the alarm about the methane discharges from the melting
permafrost and sub-marine clathrates which threaten to completely destabilise
the energy balance of our biosphere, that up until recently has been
destabilised by our rampant discharge of millions of years stored carbon in
just 150 odd years of atmospheric arson .
We spoke to an audience at the amazing Hart Family Farm of Rachel and Greg Hart near Napier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtD-z2hcIco and then travelled south to the capital and spoke in the Hutt Valley at a public meeting organised by Jacinta McKenzie from “ Transition Towns” in Wellington before returning to Auckland for our presentation at Laila Harre’s seafood restaurant and venue Ika Sea. Professor Guy McPherson, professor emeritus from the University of Arizona and Paul Beckwith from the University of Ottawa both spoke via Skype and we hope to have the video of that presentation very shortly which was Live Streamed to the net via the team at Slipstream and The Daily Blog
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/?x=5&y=2&s=Arctic+methane+emergency
I was approached at the Hutt Valley meeting by Victoria University lecturer and activist Pala Molisa http://dailypost.vu/news/molisa-dedicates-doctorate-to-mum/article_7e7328d1-a721-5c3e-9d22-6ccf5d27ba93.html and was asked to speak at “ The Eye of the Storm” climate conference at Victoria University where I was on a panel with Rod Oram speaking about the corporate media and what I consider the two biggest cover-up’s since the shooting of JFK by the military industrial complex which has gone on to murder millions of people. The two core subjects of my presentation were the true repercussions of the triple melt down at Fukushima Daiichi and the possibility of Near Term Human Extinction from runaway abrupt climate change. For more on NTHE I suggest you go to Professor Guy McPherson’s blog Nature Bats Last at guymcpherson.com or listen to his and Mike Sliwa https://michaelsliwa.wordpress.com/tag/blog/ weekly radio show on prn.fm also called Nature Bats Last.
I am sometimes accused of being “ too emotional” when I speak publicly about our climate catastrophe but I find the imminent extinction of most if not all complex life on this planet a very emotional subject but interestingly, I experienced an amazing response from the Indigenous representatives at the conference.
I was approached numerous times by participants from Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu and the Soloman Islands thanking me for displaying that emotion and showing a sense of urgency about this unfolding catastrophe as they do when talking about the imminent loss of their historic homelands and the daunting prospect of becoming “ Climate Refugees”, a term that really doesn’t sit well with them.
The developed world have behaved like arsonists and set fire to the biosphere and as usual the first people to suffer are the Indigenous people and most relevant to NZ are our Pacific neighbours who I believe deserve a managed access plan to NZ to facilitate an orderly withdrawal for them from their disappearing and daily more inhospitable Islands.
I believe there is a disproportionate emphasis on sea level rise in this discussion where I believe the first thing to drive people from their Islands will be what James E Hansen referred to as “ The Storms of our Grandchildren” which are bearing down on us already NOT in 2100 as the mantra goes.
I will be interviewed soon by Eric Draitser of STOPIMPERIALISM.org where we will be discussing the role of imperialism in our catastrophe and the bankruptcy of leadership we see in the world from the Imperialist nations and their lackeys like NZ Prime Minister John Key and the converse inspirational leadership being shown by Anote Tong president of Kiribati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KACXV-cW-4 who I had the pleasure of meeting and I kid you not, dancing with at the post conference celebration in Wellington.
Professor McPherson and I believe that NZ will be one of the last habitable places on earth which puts a huge ‘cross hairs’ target on our country, I firmly believe we should be pursuing an independent foreign policy and not signing up to any military alliances as we have with the United States Empire of Chaos as correspondent Pepe Escobar calls it.
Like it or not we are facing a dystopian future, let’s talk about it now and not when the proverbial hits the fan because it already has and is flying towards us all as we speak and twerk in distracted oblivion.
Below is my interview on Libby HaLevy's website Nuclear Hotseat.
We spoke to an audience at the amazing Hart Family Farm of Rachel and Greg Hart near Napier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtD-z2hcIco and then travelled south to the capital and spoke in the Hutt Valley at a public meeting organised by Jacinta McKenzie from “ Transition Towns” in Wellington before returning to Auckland for our presentation at Laila Harre’s seafood restaurant and venue Ika Sea. Professor Guy McPherson, professor emeritus from the University of Arizona and Paul Beckwith from the University of Ottawa both spoke via Skype and we hope to have the video of that presentation very shortly which was Live Streamed to the net via the team at Slipstream and The Daily Blog
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/?x=5&y=2&s=Arctic+methane+emergency
I was approached at the Hutt Valley meeting by Victoria University lecturer and activist Pala Molisa http://dailypost.vu/news/molisa-dedicates-doctorate-to-mum/article_7e7328d1-a721-5c3e-9d22-6ccf5d27ba93.html and was asked to speak at “ The Eye of the Storm” climate conference at Victoria University where I was on a panel with Rod Oram speaking about the corporate media and what I consider the two biggest cover-up’s since the shooting of JFK by the military industrial complex which has gone on to murder millions of people. The two core subjects of my presentation were the true repercussions of the triple melt down at Fukushima Daiichi and the possibility of Near Term Human Extinction from runaway abrupt climate change. For more on NTHE I suggest you go to Professor Guy McPherson’s blog Nature Bats Last at guymcpherson.com or listen to his and Mike Sliwa https://michaelsliwa.wordpress.com/tag/blog/ weekly radio show on prn.fm also called Nature Bats Last.
I am sometimes accused of being “ too emotional” when I speak publicly about our climate catastrophe but I find the imminent extinction of most if not all complex life on this planet a very emotional subject but interestingly, I experienced an amazing response from the Indigenous representatives at the conference.
I was approached numerous times by participants from Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu and the Soloman Islands thanking me for displaying that emotion and showing a sense of urgency about this unfolding catastrophe as they do when talking about the imminent loss of their historic homelands and the daunting prospect of becoming “ Climate Refugees”, a term that really doesn’t sit well with them.
The developed world have behaved like arsonists and set fire to the biosphere and as usual the first people to suffer are the Indigenous people and most relevant to NZ are our Pacific neighbours who I believe deserve a managed access plan to NZ to facilitate an orderly withdrawal for them from their disappearing and daily more inhospitable Islands.
I believe there is a disproportionate emphasis on sea level rise in this discussion where I believe the first thing to drive people from their Islands will be what James E Hansen referred to as “ The Storms of our Grandchildren” which are bearing down on us already NOT in 2100 as the mantra goes.
I will be interviewed soon by Eric Draitser of STOPIMPERIALISM.org where we will be discussing the role of imperialism in our catastrophe and the bankruptcy of leadership we see in the world from the Imperialist nations and their lackeys like NZ Prime Minister John Key and the converse inspirational leadership being shown by Anote Tong president of Kiribati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KACXV-cW-4 who I had the pleasure of meeting and I kid you not, dancing with at the post conference celebration in Wellington.
Professor McPherson and I believe that NZ will be one of the last habitable places on earth which puts a huge ‘cross hairs’ target on our country, I firmly believe we should be pursuing an independent foreign policy and not signing up to any military alliances as we have with the United States Empire of Chaos as correspondent Pepe Escobar calls it.
Like it or not we are facing a dystopian future, let’s talk about it now and not when the proverbial hits the fan because it already has and is flying towards us all as we speak and twerk in distracted oblivion.
Below is my interview on Libby HaLevy's website Nuclear Hotseat.
http://nuclearhotseat.com/2015/12/09/nuclear-hotseat-233-climate-changenuke-connection-rainbow-warrior-wnzs-kevin-hester/
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