Good Friday, 19th April 2019

Oxford Circus, London

"In the middle of the day police moved in force to surround the pink boat as Emma Thompson read poetry from the deck, eventually removing the people who were either locked-on or glued to it. After seven hours police had moved the boat without clearing Oxford Circus." (Wikipedia)
	Dangerous pink boat?   Shocking pink!   Dangerous truth?   We & all life on Earth are in existential danger. Who & what are the police protecting?

Oxford CIRCUS 2019 Mother Nature walking a tightrope bring on the clowns dressed as policemen

 The World Turned Upside Down?

GOOD FRIDAY 2019

Mother Nature on the cross
& at the crossroads

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with LOVE & REBELLION

against extinction

click pic?

Personally, have been banging this drum for quite a long while.

In mid 1970s, I prophetically wrote:

"we are an endangered species
likely to become extinct"

(Dirty Seaside Postcard)

PS - Back by popular demand. Return of the Pink Boat, 10 September 2020, just outside Parliament. Reminder that the problem of Climate & Environmental Emergency ain’t going away anytime soon. On the contrary, unfortunately, it will get worse, as tipping points are reached & abrupt climate change is triggered, leading to more mass extinction & the likelihood of societal collapse.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technical advances. The Clock represents the hypothetical global catastrophe as "midnight" and the Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to a global catastrophe as a number of "minutes" to midnight, assessed in January of each year. The main factors influencing the Clock are nuclear risk and global warming (climate change.)The Bulletin's Science and Security Board also monitors new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.

The Clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has been set backward and forward 24 times since then, the largest-ever number of minutes to midnight being 17 (in 1991), and the smallest 100 seconds (1 minute and 40 seconds) in January 2020.
The clock was set at two minutes to midnight in January 2018, and left unchanged in 2019 due to the twin threats of nuclear weapons and the increasing effects of global warming. On 23 January 2020, it was moved forward to 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight, based on the increased threats to global stability posed by "a nuclear blunder", exacerbated by the rate of climate change.

^-Wikipedia

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