[Imc-uk-features] feature proposal: A Taste Of Things To Come

[maqui]

Hello

Personally I support the feature going up to the front page, but:
Having said that, this is not a criticism, just a comment.

On Thursday, July 5, 2007, at 08:42  pm, WietsE wrote:

> Cool, I have just removed some quotations and references to the sirs 
> and
> mainstream media. I've re-written the second part of the article and
> incorporated the stuff Chris gathered.

I still think that the bit in the content with references to tabloids 
and politicians  jumping on the band wagon of climate change alarm give 
a bit of bad smell to the featue, if you see what i mean :-)

> Is this ok? Are people more happy about it? Or what other changes can 
> be
> made? Please add ideas and suggestions to the wiki. It is currently
> posted on the Sheffield, Notts and Climate Chaos pages and I'm still
> proposing it for the uk startpage.


Sorry, I a bit confused now. What wiki. I've gone to the wiki you 
pointed:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NottsFeaturePage2

and in there the feature is quite different from the one in the Climate 
Chaos page. So I am not sure where to add the suggestions i pot below. 
Actually, the link I propose ins included in the wiki version of the 
feature, but not in the one appaearing in the Climate Chaos page.

Am I in the wrong wiki? ... (apologies for my poor wikiness :-)

Anyway, the changes I propose are minor. Basically to add this article:
A new weather front:
http://www.turbulence.org.uk/anewweatherfront.html
That I think puts climate change as a political issue rather than just 
an environmental one.

And also, I think that it would be worth to make clear in the feature 
the fact that it is the global south which will get worst hit by 
climate chaos. Just a sentence stating that would do the job i guess.

I make some changes (in caps) to the paragraph in the context box:

Even the tabloids AND POLITICIANS are NOW JUMPING IN THE 'CLIMATE CHAOS 
BANG WAGON' (not sure about spelling) AND ARE FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGING 
CLIMATE CHANGE AS A MAJOR ISSUE FACING HUMANITY. THEY HAVE RECENTLY 
LINKED the storms to climate change, WHICH IS NOT ONLY STATING THE 
OBVIOUS, BUT MOREOVER ACCEPTING MANY OF THE ISSUES CLIMATE CHANGE 
ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN CLAIMING FOR YEARS. The Mirror reported that "Flood 
damage is becoming more common because of global warming" while warning 
that insurance companies will increasingly refuse to insure homes built 
on flood plains. The (former) Prime Minister, Tony Blair said that he 
thought the floods were related to such major global issues in his 
joint press conference with Arnold Schwarzenegger. While the met office 
warns of further storms to come during the next week, Sir David King 
warned that in the long-term, as Greenland ice disappeared, rising sea 
levels would wipe out Britain's coastal town and cities. "The message 
that climate change is the biggest change our civilisation has ever had 
to face up to is getting out there. It's almost become fashionable to 
talk about it, but fashions come and go," he said and warned that the 
current interest in global warming had to be more than a passing fad.

WHAT NO POLITICIAN AND MAINSTREAM TABLOID SEEMS TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS YET 
IS THE FACT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BEEN PRIMARILY PROVOKED BY THE 
GLOBAL NORTH'S SENSELESS DRIVE FOR DEPLETING THE EARTH'S NATURAL 
RESOURCES, AND ITS UNHINDERED NEED FOR A NEVER ENDING CONSUMERISM. THE 
VERY SAME POLITICIANS NOW SO CONCERNED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE STILL REFUSE 
TO ACCPET THAT IT IS THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH WHICH WILL 
SUFFER CLIMATE CHAOS FIRST AND MORE AGGRESSIVELY, CAUSING UNCOUNTABLE 
DEVASTATION, INCLUDING DEATH, MASS MIGRATION, FOOD AND ENERGY SORTAGES, 
AND SO ON.

Don't know, i've written this from the top of my head, but I sure that 
there are folk in this list that could put it more eloquently than me 
:-)

Cheers
maqui