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The extinction path of global nation states
I was listening to parts of the Australian Federal Parliament house of representatives session on radio, 22nd October 2019. It was like trying to make sense of the inmates of a lunatic asylum, given the actual predicaments that Australian Fossil Fool Civilisation now faces. Nearly every speaker requires a mental illness diagnosis.
There were a couple of sane adults in the room, but everyone else seems to be living in a delusion bubble, set by the major party lines controlling the puppetry.
I checked late in the evening the corresponding Hansard of 22nd October 2019, which gets promptly published in for each day. I searched for the key word “emergency”, as I had heard a “climate emergency petition” was being tabled. I have signed quite a few of these in the past.
The Hansard PDF text indicates how far away government politicians have strayed from reality. The government seemed more interested in mouthing the holy mantras of economic growth, and pumping for more emissions export growth, despite a massive climate emergency petition, growing activist disruptions in the streets, ongoing worse droughts, collapse of Australia’s farming sector, signs of ecological collapse, and warning signs that the entire real fossil fool system is heading for economic collapse.