Some 15 or 20 years back, the pre-Facebook & Co. era, I did voice my view that the Americas (north & south) + the now-called Australia were not supposed to be colonized by the barbarians from the Old & Sick World & be called the “New World”. They were big lands inhabited by the Natives or First Nations or Aboriginess, free of “destructive-capitalistic” people not for no reason.
Perhaps the most important of many reasons was to absorb CO2 emissions from the “Old World” & supply us with fresh air. And food. Imagine the Amazon Basin, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, the Grand Banks & the Great Barrier Reef a few hundred years back. And look at what became of them today.
The Amazon, the lungs of the earth is being burned. It is burning at an alarming rate that will cause the entire world to be hotter than ever. With Bolsonaro, a climate change denier as the caretaker, it is almost as asking a thief to look after your money.
The Burning of the Amazon Rainforest
The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta once fed the entire world with its highly fertile flood plains, while at the same time played the role as one of the world’s biggest sanctuaries for plants, birds, land & aquatic animals, is amost gone. The BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 nearly turned the entire Mississippi Delta and the area affected almost unhabitable. The tragedy was the largest environmental disaster ever recorded.
One of the millions victims from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010
What happened to the Grand Banks off the coast of Nova Scotia is another very sad story in humans’ greed. It once was abundant with fish that supplied us with cheap protein now barren of aquatic lives. Overfishing was the culprit.
While typing this story, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the sanctuary and breeding ground for fish and other aquatic lives are dying. As of today in September 2019, scientists believe that about 90% of the coral reef are dead due to global warming, water pollution and overfishing. How sad is that.
The corals of the Great Barrier Reef, before and now
All these areas were once guarded by the native people. They were the guardians of the nature of the Americas and Australia that helped keep the climate change we caused in the Old & Sick World in balance. But look what happened after the “destructive-capitalists” arrived from the Old & Sick World. Not only did they exterminate most of the Natives, First Nations & the Aboriginies, also known as the guardians of the nature, they destroy most of the New World, just like what they did back where they came from.
They upped their reputation to another new level by being the most evil villains in history, the “Climate Changer”. Australia, USA, Canada and Brazil are guilty, as the statistical data show, but not charged. It’s because they rule the world. Even the spokespersons of these gangs of criminals, when reminded of their crime of warming the globe, cockily fired back, “What global warming?”, and continued scorching the earth.
Not only they deny the crimes they have committed and continue criming (my invented word), they push away the victims of their acts, the climate-change refugees. They even label the refugees as invaders. How very dare they.
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