There will be blood.
And here we are and here we go, the year 2020 rounding its final bend but with many, many surprises still possible. Will Killer Whales take back the sea? Will the world agree to go back under Covid restriction lock and key? Will Donald J. Trump take out Joe Robinette Biden as Most Powerful Man in the World™?
Will the nicest man in surfing, Adrian “Ace” Buchan, bring the meanest industry on earth to its knees?
Australia has put forward a plan for how it will come back, economically, after the pandemic passes and it hinges growth to an expansion of use and sales of the country’s fossil fuels.
A good idea?
According to Ace, in a recent Guardian interview, “The interest of fossil fuel in Australian politics is becoming something of an international joke. It’s fine for us to kind of sit back and shake our heads at what’s happening with, say, Donald Trump in America, but people are doing the same [here] … the influence of fossil fuel in our politics, it’s just crazy. You have a government in power that is picking and choosing when it listens to the science. Renewable energy prices are low – there’s non-fossil fuel energy storage options available. Gas just isn’t a transition fuel that’s going to lead to a safe climate. I feel like that ship’s well and truly sailed … I think switching to renewables rapidly is the only responsible path. The science is super clear.”
And POW!
Right in the kisser.
But do you know how people say we don’t get the hero we need, we get the one we deserve? Well, we certainly don’t deserve Ace but I would gladly line up behind him to bring down nasty, stinky oil and gas. To be honest, I would gladly line up behind Ace over any cause and imagine he will, someday, benevolently rule Australia, putting a stop to Kelly Slater’s environmental terrorism etc.
Speaking of, where are you on TESLA? I mean, besides rich from sage investment advice served here daily. Are you ready to spring into an electric car directly or still on the fence, waiting for a few more bells and whistles?
More as the story develops.
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It is definitely a good take on the whole thing. Considering it’s produced by hard leftist Michael Moore and narrated by a hardcore environmentalist it’s hard to dismiss it as big oil propaganda. You’re right, ultimately consumption needs to be reduced and building energy gobbling wave parks and flying around the world in pursuit of better surf is very hypocritical and selfish.
Spot on Nick!
It’s tiring
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You’re up there too? Gonna return to deal with my buddies house, maybe a few weeks, I’ll be round. I am naive though… barely stash my key round here…. but no one is around anyway. Can’t believe you’re up there too… son of a bitch. Fucking computer keys…. what are you supposed to do with them anyway?
It’s like the new trucks all have short beds. Can’t fit two dirt bikes or boards. Who the fuck needs the extra cab? It’s like the manufacturers forgot the purpose of the trucks.
Adrian Buchan was a Nike sponsored surfer.
“Nike accused of underpaying and intimidating Indonesian workers. Workers making Nike shoes in Indonesia say they’ve been forced to accept less than the minimum wage and they’ve been stood over by military personnel specially hired to intimidate them. The workers earn $3.70 a day.
Got two good days of beach break…. kinda shifty, but if you picked the right ones they connected to second hits. Second day was real fun as I figured it out, but our car got tossed about and we returned to no wallets/phones/weed. I can deal without money and talk boxes, but man he took some good indica. Little slutty’s hanging in that hood too cause it was so beach hot. End of day, we ate steaks and drank beers and I had more weed at the house, everything will work out.
Came home and scored fun peaks in trunks, virtually alone. SF is busy, btw. Very.
Nick is as humble as he is informed…..
He’s also occasionally lucid amongst his conspiracy theory tirades.
Another valuable MAWMN
Problems are endemic. We need to work together to fix this shit. Not expect people to go back to living in caves.
Yes but Nicks right (fuck did I really just say that?) we need to reduce our consumptive lifestyle … technology will only provide some of the answers
How about a front on smiling old guys face wearing glasses with pointy a pointy beard and bow tie?
Hippies gotta eat outside…..downwind.
Unless he’s got the good indica
where the fuck is rasta in all oh this?
Spotted few years ago 4 floors of whores, Orchard Tower Singapore, chatting to a Rusian hooker.
Best breakdown of leftie airheads that I’ve ever heard
Bravo Nick!!!
You’re easily pleased.
I LIKE TO PRACTICE !
Alone or with friends?
Any port in a storm !
Whenever I see Ace referred to as the nicest guy in pro surfing I always imagine all the other pro surfers aspiring to be the nicest guy hunching their shoulders and clenching their fists and kicking pebbles and huffing and puffing and muttering, “This is bullshit!”
Its not an economy driver. Corpos hate not making massive profits.
The worst
Wind?
This new “Equity Metric” is straight out of some SJW field manual.
Living in the world as it is, is not an argument against changing it for the better.
Look Ace’s heart is in the right spot.
The problem is almost all top surfers go from being a top grommet to a travelling pro and never go to university. Because why would you? Then when it dawns on them that the world is a complex place with all kinds of shades of grey, they get completely mind blown when they realise that politics is full of lobbyists who influence policy. The smart ones make donations to both sides. Corruption is a no-no, but donations, political parties are completely fine with that!
Thank god corporations are people and money is speech eh?
citizens united, amen….