repulsewarrior wrote:MR-from-NG wrote:4 dead so far in the north with more rain expected by Sunday. Our idiots are guilty of manslaughter because if they hadn't blocked and land-filled all the rivers running through cities and villages the water would have had somewhere to flow to. I remember 2 small rivers and having to cross 2 bridges in our village. There are block of flats there now.
...this happens everywhere, it still happens, not just in Cyprus, when developers buy land, like a riverbed, because it is cheap. Houses by a riverbed, dry or not make for excellent views, housing on the riverbed makes them that much more money, for building housing; but before it becomes a catastrophic disaster, it may take forty years, it was too late (as planned), there were buyers, never mind a Civil Service that chased(s) the immediate reward of having more taxes to spend.
...it would be nice to have a Federal government, above this influence, which sets (and being in the EU follows) standards, that Constituencies, and their Municipalities respect and recognise as acts. (...just saying.)
No it doesn't.
there is no way you could be sold land in the creek or river bed here. There are planning rules that are followed.
Riverside yes, that could be subject to flooding every now and then. Plus, a small block that is riverside on the Brisbane river as an example is worth a minimum of 3.5 million AUD or about 2.5 million Euros. Very high end and exclusive.
The last floods occurred in 2011 because the authorities were too late to open the catchment's dam and were caught napping. If they opened the damn 1 or 2 days earlier, the water would have been released into Mornington Bay. They were caught napping and then the deluge occurred, and when they finally opened the damn, it made it worst at that point.
Because of that, the cities storm water catchment system was improved at a cost of over a Billion Dollars.
22 people died.
In addition, there is not much scientific evidence that global warming is human induced. The planet goes through a number of warming and cooling cycles and it is currently in a warming cycle right now which is natural and was always going to happen. Also, extreme weather phenomena were just as frequent many decades ago as they are today, the only difference is that we have TV, Internet and a 24 hour news cycle that reports them constantly.
Global Warming is just a wealth redistribution system by the United Nations and the left from rich countries to the poorer countries - because the rich countries are forced to cut emissions whilst China and India are allowed to build more than 250 fossil fuel plants giving their economy access to very cheap energy whilst the first world is debilitated with more expensive Green Energy resulting in the elderly not being able to afford cooling in the hot summer heat and heating in the bitter cold of winter. This also gives China and India an unfair competitive edge as it drives their manufacturing costs down, which is why most manufacturing occurs in China by Western Countries like the USA. Apple manufactures its IPhones and Tablets in China, paying Chinese workers about $10 per day. It is a sweat shop. But these antics will not be allowed under Trump. The left should be rejoicing, but they are not!
So whilst the Western World goes "green" energy, all the corporates who "virtual signal" about global warming and put solar panels on their high rise offices in New York, London and Sydney and pump out their virtual signalling brochures, also move their entire manufacturing to China, where most of the energy is fossil, thus pumping out more pollution than ever before by moving their manufacturing from the USA, or Australia as an example, to China. People are so dumb and believe the propaganda so much. Sheeple you all are so wake up!
Just another reason WHY, Trump (USA) and Australia must never sign the Paris Agreement until this UN abomination collapses and is destroyed forever. EU countries might not be allowed because of their occupation and inability to exercise their sovereignty.
In fact, I believe these countries should have walked out of the UN over the so called migration pact. When I mean walk out, I mean rescind their UN Membership and make a statement they no longer recognize the UN at all, and cut all funding. USA Ambassador to the UN Nikki Hayley, really is a magnificent ambassador in that hell hole of despots and dictators trying to dictate to the world. Once countries like the USA, and Australia withdraw, the UN becomes an irrelevance and has no authority at all. Some other countries may follow as well.
BTW, China has surrendered in its trade war and is asking for negotiations and even offered to buy more stuff from the USA. Trump has said he will listen but if the balance isn't addressed, then the trade war will continue. This Trump fellow has some serious balls! For the first time ever, a "politician" (if you can call him a politician) with intestinal fortitude.
Trump is one hell of a smart cooky. No one (usually the leftist Nazis) have given this man any credit for his genius, but it is apparent that the US economy is today the fastest growing OECD economy in the world. Australia was first for a long time and just got toppled at the top by Trump's America, and that friends is food for thought!
Trump is the international leader every country needs - and I really mean that.
