The Burning Times
11/11/2019 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIt has been a crazy week with not just the real world burning but a bunch of some scary and some significant anniversaries (2016 USA election, Armistice Day, Reichskristallnacht, the fall of the Berlin Wall, even the Russian Revolution which no one wants to talk about these days)
Normally I would be getting all nostalgic and spending ages wandering down Memory Lane but Dursleyish DIVORCE dramas have rather got in the way of that.
In the meantime, David Rowe has excelled himself with his cutting cartoons. His is the one Twitter account that I would miss most of all were it to vanish into the black hole like it did a few weeks ago.
Usually his cartoons get around 20 to 30 comments on Twitter but this one is at 200 and still counting.
Long after Scomo is gone from the Lodge, this image will live on as his legacy.
The penny pinching goblins promoting coal and cutting the budget for fire prevention and emergency services will be in for a shock when it comes out that large parts of Australia will soon be uninsurable.
The actuaries are the real canaries in the coal mine. They were the first to notice a link between smoking and cancer, asbestos and other lung diseases and they were on the case of climate change before nearly everyone else because if they screw up their risk assessments then their companies go broke
Once a property becomes uninsurable then no bank will lend against it, house prices will start crashing and where is a whole pile of government revenue going to come from then?
And all that aside from the awful suffering and stress to people and animals due to the heat waves and fiery infernos.
Even without taking into account the dramatically increased fire risks, the increasing number of days over 40C will just sizzle all green and growing things. Even the old trees are now keeling over from heat stress and thirst.
Normally I would be getting all nostalgic and spending ages wandering down Memory Lane but Dursleyish DIVORCE dramas have rather got in the way of that.
In the meantime, David Rowe has excelled himself with his cutting cartoons. His is the one Twitter account that I would miss most of all were it to vanish into the black hole like it did a few weeks ago.
Usually his cartoons get around 20 to 30 comments on Twitter but this one is at 200 and still counting.
Long after Scomo is gone from the Lodge, this image will live on as his legacy.
The penny pinching goblins promoting coal and cutting the budget for fire prevention and emergency services will be in for a shock when it comes out that large parts of Australia will soon be uninsurable.
The actuaries are the real canaries in the coal mine. They were the first to notice a link between smoking and cancer, asbestos and other lung diseases and they were on the case of climate change before nearly everyone else because if they screw up their risk assessments then their companies go broke
Once a property becomes uninsurable then no bank will lend against it, house prices will start crashing and where is a whole pile of government revenue going to come from then?
And all that aside from the awful suffering and stress to people and animals due to the heat waves and fiery infernos.
Even without taking into account the dramatically increased fire risks, the increasing number of days over 40C will just sizzle all green and growing things. Even the old trees are now keeling over from heat stress and thirst.
