What is a 9a. You don’t know do you? Has
the Climate changed? I know. Did Obama deserve the Nobel Peace prize, well clearly not. Have
these things got anything in common? Actually more than you think. And for me they are all linked in an
intricate, strong, but brittle way. It’s called information.
9a is not what you think, and has been
devalued by the climbing press, by massive inflation, and miss-reporting they
don’t care, they are just a business that earns money.
American politics is business. Obama was
given the Peace prize for what? It can’t have been for peace, America is still
at War in a few countries. Just open your eyes and read, stop surfing for women’s breasts,
climbing titillation, and puerile distraction.
We are all sold stuff that is overpriced,
or just junk. There wont be a pristine white
K2 any more, there will be a dry pile of rocks which some one will be
sizing up to make nylon ropes out of.
When I open a web site concerned with climbing,
do I see anything to do with Climate change? The climate was a boulder perched
precariously on the edge of a huge mountain, and we knocked it off, now that it
has started rolling can you imagine the trouble we are going to have to even
slow it down. Tomorrow that boulder will be hurtling faster, and it will knock
other little rocks which will join in destructive avalanche. In 5O years
hopefully I will be dead, but the planet will be roughly 6° centigrade warmer,
that’s hot as hell. Great ice climbs will be extinct, Skiing won’t exist, the Himalayas
will just have there tips covered in frost in summer. A few years ago in
Pakistan it was 30° at 6000 meters, and the snowfields were almost like
treacle, slowly moving.
I swim in the sea, the temperature is going
up! The acidity of the Mediterranean sea is also going up! The ability of sea
water to contain minerals in suspension which creates shells and other living
structures is in danger. The amount of plastic in the sea is gross. Islands of plastic, way bigger than Gozo float around seas, made
up of plastic bottles, condoms, plastic bags, etc. We hunt tuna with planes and then send
massive boats to catch these fish, the fishermen are armed because its very,
very big business. We then farm tuna. We feed Tuna cheap food to increase their
weight , at the right time we then fly the carcass to some rich men’s tables,
Japan or America. Then a climber eats it. Bon appetite.
Some climbers know more about climate
change than any one, they live it first hand. They don’t speak up cos its bad
for business. Old garbage dumps, toilets, dead bodies they are all being
exhumed by climate change. Glaciers are disappearing, open your eyes. The
pollution in the Chamonix valley is off the health scale, it is out side what
should be allowed, this valley one of the most beautiful in the world is being
killed by climbers, mountaineers, skiers, and the general business of mountains. Happy climbs.
My ability to change the world for the good
is low, my ability to change the world for the bad is great. I would like it to be the other way around.
