The G7's combined GDP is more than $300 trillion.
The G7 offered $20 million to "help Amazon countries fight wildfires and launch a long-term global initiative to protect the rainforest" https://t.co/dv9rZUStRX
— Brian Kahn (@blkahn) 26 August 2019
Sigh.
Numeracy? Clown got an arts degree order of magnitude error?
But that aside, 20 mil doesn’t sound far outside what Brazil might need to help fight forest fires. If they’re using the military, the manpower’s already paid for. You can’t magic fleets of water bombing aircraft out of thin air. Brazil presumably has military heavy lift, which it’s using for water bombing.. So what do you spend 200 mil or 2B mil on? More US & EU environmentalist observers?
Literacy, where art THOU literacy?
It sort of reminds me of a client wanted a rush job done. Decorate a suite of offices over a weekend so they could be up & running Monday. Saturday lunchtime he’s asking if we couldn’t put more blokes on the job. Hang the expense, he’ll pay.
Answer’s no. For a start where do I find more decorators, Saturday midday? You’ve got the full team now. I could give you another ten on Monday. But that’s not today when you need an office decorated..Secondly, it wouldn’t make any difference. Paint takes so long to dry before you can recoat. Any more people & they’ll be standing around doing nothing & getting in the way.
Not all problems can be solved with money. Although if you want to give me some, I’ll be happy to accept it.
Maybe Balsonaro’s thinking why let these cvnts get a foot in the door for 20M I can’t use?
They couldn’t care less about the rain forest. This is a cheapass “Get Bolsonaro” gambit.
Note that the Amazon rain forest encompasses over 2,000,000 square miles. At the current rate of deforestation – OH NOES !!! – it will be all gone in the year 12,500.
“Fires in the Amazon” is fake news Leftard agitprop.
bis,
Not all problems can be solved with money
Or more bodies.
I’ve had to explain to quite a few very senior managers and civil servants that just because a woman can produce a baby in 9 months it doesn’t follow that 9 women can produce a baby in one month. Some jobs just take a lot of time.
The end outcome doesn’t matter to the Left, because its all about control. And the metric used to measure control is money. The more money the State spends on doing X means a) more people have to be taxed to raise that money, and b) more people are thus dependent on the State for their livelihood, both of which increase State control over the individual. So spending £10bn on ‘education’ is better than £5bn regardless of whether that extra spending actually educates a single extra student or raises the standards of the rest even slightly. The actual outcome is irrelevant – the aim is to control the greatest amount of the entire economy via taxation and spending as possible.
So true, Jim. They REALLY, REALLY don’t care about anything else. Whatever they are talking about is just a foil to get more control.
When they whine about ______, they don’t really care. It’s fake. They use your caring against you.
Completely OT
If you haven’t come across Titania McGrath on Twitter you’re missing out. This is comedy gold, worthy of Steve the Great of this parish.
https://twitter.com/titaniamcgrath/status/1168159743212494848?s=21
Not being a twitterist, I can read that on my phone…
Any hacks?
I did wonder what the point of giving them cash was, surely lending them some planes and crews are what they need. Also not reported is the very quiet summer it’s been for wildfires in Canada, though the last couple of years have been filled with hysteria about how fires are getting worse and this is a constant upward change in the cycle etc.
“surely lending them some planes and crews are what they need. ”
It was a thought I had. Until I thought some more. Who lends Brazil planes & crews? Not countries in the immediate region. Colombia, Bolivia & Peru all have their own sections of the Amazon forest to worry about. Venezuala couldn’t find a plane if it wanted to. Argentina’s on the verge of economic collapse. Paraguay? Uruguay? Maybe a couple from Chile.
Further afield? Central America lacks the capability. US might be able to, but it’s not simply planes & crews. Aircraft need maintenance & support personal & facilities to fly & they have to be specific for the sort of aircraft concerned. Getting that lot down to Brazil would be a major logistics operation. If Brazil has the runways & facilities to take that volume of traffic. Runways four hours flying time away from the fire areas aren’t going to be practical.
It’s something people forget in situations like this. Countries only have the facilities & capabilities they need to meet reasonable expectations. If the UK had to mount a major cross-Channel sealift, it would have to do it with the ferries it has. Maybe borrow a couple from neighbouring countries. It couldn’t magic a fleet of a hundred ships into existence & the ports to handle them.
bis,
They’d also have to do a fairly rigorous risk assessment. Who’d be the politician who sent his country’s planes and personnel only to have one of their own cities ravaged by a forest fire?
Edward,
Didn’t clicking the link open it in your default browser
re BiND “9 months”…
Reminds me of the old joke – “Definition of the IBM man-year – 500 blokes trying to get something finished before lunch”.
Am required to logon to twitter, BiND. Not being a user, that doesn’t work for me.
Edward,
I usually get a “rate limited” message when I open Twitter links in my phone browser. Opening in a private/incognito window always works though.
Suspect my phone’s carrying a cookie that marks me as an undesirable for opening Twitter links from “extreme far right” websites (such as here).
I’ve had to explain to quite a few very senior managers and civil servants that just because a woman can produce a baby in 9 months it doesn’t follow that 9 women can produce a baby in one month. Some jobs just take a lot of time.
And then they sacked you for the exclusionary assumption that women have children
The fires in central Africa are far bigger at the moment than the Amazonian ones. Strangely nobody seems to want Kleptostan or it’s neighbours any planes.
(FYI Air Zimbabwe is missing 3 planes from it’s fleet. They’ve been nicked, which shows ambition and application, no?)
to lend Kleptostan, ..
@Fatmatt
As far as I can see, the planes haven’t been stolen but their ownership is opaque and the paperwork didn’t show up during an audit:
https://www.aerotime.aero/aerotime.team/22805-what-happened-to-air-zimbabwe-s-three-md60s
Sounds like SOP for having something away, smartish. Make whoever’s it’s supposed to belong to unclear so that, when it does a vanishing trick, no one’s going to report it & accept the blame for losing it.
Has anyone seen the actual aircraft recently?
Who’d be the politician who sent his country’s planes and personnel only to have one of their own cities ravaged by a forest fire?
It’s a pretty regular occurance – Canada exchanges forest fire crews with Australia and (IIRC) New Zealand – in those cases counter-cyclical fire seasons obviously help – but also with the US and Mexico, which are on the same summer season as us – and I think we had some Germans in the last couple of seasons (ditto). Within Canada, Provinces exchange crews (forest management is a provincial responsibility, although the Feds kick in military personnel and equipment) depending on the fire season.
Oh – I should add – it’s usually crews that travel, not the water bombers or heavy equipment, for the logistical tail reasons mentioned above.
@Fatmatt
Thanks for tip. msm has been doing it’s usual bias by omission
google: fires in central Africa
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/africa-wildfires
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-amazon-fires-brazil-congo-rainforest-africa-bolsonaro-nasa-macron-a9080741.html
Oh – I should add – it’s usually crews that travel, not the water bombers or heavy equipment, for the logistical tail reasons mentioned above.
So they can get their crews back quickly to man their own infrastructure very quickly. Low risk.
That’s not what I had in mind, I was commenting on the improbability of sending planes and the rest of the infrastructure,
Completely OT
I haven’t come across the term Queens Consent before, but it seems that those who think Parliament can order the PM to seek an extension are in for a shock. Its a long article and well worth a read, but here’s the key points as I saw them:
Wow! BiND
Luv it!
Cummings is the master of the Dark Arts!
Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives Brexit statement after emergency Cabinet meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUV8L0ql0fw
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTH-nTshHPo
C4 News Brexit Debate 2 Sep 2019
Surprisingly good
Redwood and Alexandra Phillips (Brexit MEP) did well and presented facts.
Remoaners continued vapid Project Fear: “if” “might” “could” “can’t guarantee” “we don’t know what will happen”
Nobody knows what future holds whether In or Out of EU
.
SNP said “We’ll run out of safe water” – an old trope debunked months ago as an outright lie
Audience showed their derision
Hopefully a whole raft of measure to defeat remainiac MPs treason are ready.
I would arrest that SOS Bercow and enough of the rest of the bastards for treason before they got in the door tomorrow.
Quite right, Mr. Ecks! Where’s Colonel Pride when we need him?