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

[WietsE]

maqui wrote:
> 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 :-)

No, https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NottsFeaturePage2 is the right 
wiki. Changes have been made in the article on the wiki, but not in the 
article that was already approved for the Notts, Sheffield and climate 
chaos pages.

Neither me nor Chris have found the time yet to change the article 
already published, but this will be done once we're ready to tick uk as 
well.

> 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 :-)

Nice one Maqui, this is however adding to text of which some has already 
been removed from the original article. The wiki shows the latest 
version, it would be great if you could change and add to that.

Cheers, Wietse