Kiribati will not float

[AUSloth]

Why is it so often that we see the delusions of the devout leading to disaster? There really is no dispute about climate change human endeavour is changing the world. The shear scale of industry and its associated pollutions can not be ignored and idyllic nations such as Kiribati are going to feel it first, in fact they all ready are
What do we see from the leaders and polititions?

"I'm not easily taken by global scientists prophesizing the future," says Teburoro Tito, the country's former president and now a member of Parliament.

Tito says he believes in the biblical account of Noah's ark. In that story, after God devastates the world with a flood, he makes a covenant with Noah that he will never send another.

"Saying we're going to be under the water, that I don't believe," Tito says. "Because people belong to God, and God is not so silly to allow people to perish just like that."

Tito is not alone in his views. Of the more than 90,000 people counted in Kiribati's last census, a mere 23 said they did not belong to a church. According to the most recent census, some 55 percent of citizens are Roman Catholic, 36 percent are Protestant and 3 percent are Mormon

In the last century the 10 most lethal natural disasters killed more than his entire population. The Chinese earthquake 1931 may have killed as many as 25 times the population of his country. WHERE WERE THESE GODS THEN? The crap excuse of “they were not followers of our god” doesn’t cut it, that just makes their god a spiteful mass murderer for the petty reason they don’t praise me – who says they have even heard of him/her/it.
A few at least are making an effort such as those at Griffith Uni, at the expense of their family lives in the short term but for their people in the long term. Australia should also be planning not just for our own country but for expected influx of displaced refugees from the pacific countries that will make the trickle through Indonesia look tame. With all the talk on climate change I have seen nothing substantial come out on what we will be doing. Is Australia going to be guilty of sticking it’s head in the sacred soggy sand and chanting “god will look after us”?

[Orphia Nay]

Thanks for the interesting topic. I don't have much to add, except that I agree with your comments.

[bruce1937]

Originally Posted by AUSloth

Why is it so often that we see the delusions of the devout leading to disaster? There really is no dispute about climate change human endeavour is changing the world. The shear scale of industry and its associated pollutions can not be ignored and idyllic nations such as Kiribati are going to feel it first, in fact they all ready are
What do we see from the leaders and polititions?

In the last century the 10 most lethal natural disasters killed more than his entire population. The Chinese earthquake 1931 may have killed as many as 25 times the population of his country. WHERE WERE THESE GODS THEN? The crap excuse of “they were not followers of our god” doesn’t cut it, that just makes their god a spiteful mass murderer for the petty reason they don’t praise me – who says they have even heard of him/her/it.
A few at least are making an effort such as those at Griffith Uni, at the expense of their family lives in the short term but for their people in the long term. Australia should also be planning not just for our own country but for expected influx of displaced refugees from the pacific countries that will make the trickle through Indonesia look tame. With all the talk on climate change I have seen nothing substantial come out on what we will be doing. Is Australia going to be guilty of sticking it’s head in the sacred soggy sand and chanting “god will look after us”?

The answer to your question is most probably YES!
Of course they may try to implement the pacific solution, lucky for them they are not muslim you could expect an even bigger resistance if they were.