FRAUD ALERT!
As reported, exclusively and moments ago, the new aluminum judging tower has officially won the day and is currently being erected In Teahupo’o. Coral being drilled even as you read. You have certainly followed every twist and turn of this developing story. How surf fans cheered when Paris won the 2024 Olympic Games and decided to host the surfing portion there at the “Place of Broken Skulls.” How those same fans jeered when the organizing committee declared it was going to build a fancy new judging tower in the lagoon then drove a barge over coral to prove how environmentally safe it was going to be.
How the International Surfing Association stunned all-comers by denouncing Paris’s plan and formally stated judging should be done from the beach.
How Paris sneered “On s’en fiche, tu es stupide et frivole…” and are moving forward with their plan.
But what has the World Surf League’s position on the matter been?
Complete and utter silence.
Yesterday, notable surf personality Peter King had enough and was forced to slam the “global home of surfing” over its abject hypocrisy. Taking to Instagram, King posted images from the World Surf League’s environmental arm, WSL One Ocean, and wrote, “WSL One Ocean goes silent on Teahupoo but has been there and bragged about saving coral. They even have a slogan called ‘Speak up for the ocean.’ FRAUD ALERT.”
In another slide, “Here we have WSL One Ocean bragging about their great work in Tahiti planting coral while going silent of the tower needlessly being built that will destroy coral… When the WSL said transgender men can surf against women, they said… “We are just following the ISA” but ISA came out against the tower… so where are you WSL?”
All valid points though, I must say, in these times of great uncertainty it is nice to know a few things will never change.
One of those is complete and utter World Surf League hypocrisy about the environment.
Like a comfy pair of old slippers.
Ahhhh.
Pollution is someone’s profit
Congratulations, you’re smarter than someone else on an anonymous surf adjacent comment board.
That’s some captain obvious shit – we know the WSL is a fraud.
hopefully I can get a Save Teahupoo sticker to go on my bumper with my Keep Country Country and Eddie Would Go stickers.
Big olympics don’t surf?
I think my favourite bumper sticker is the one that says “Stop Global Whining”.
And the next thing ya know…
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(many similar things have happened elsewhere)
Should have had the Olympics in South west France. Real France some might say with a big time, long established surf infastructure.Would have avoided all this fuss and palaver.
To quote the criminally underrated Canadian Anarcho-Punks Propagandhi..
– “You can tell by the smile of the CEO – Environmental restraint is about to go” –
In the WSL’s case went long, long ago. Or never even existed beyond the press releases, planting the odd bush for a film crew in Torquay and half assed interviews during the comps..
In Tahiti’s case, years of flotilla’s, WSL endorsed boats and Jeski’s to dropping fuel in a fragile ecosystem for days straight… really good for the reef, live coral loves 2-stroke and diesel waste, this is well established.
People seem to forget about all of the overwater bungalows built all over French Polynesia
That’s culture Actually.
Back pre invasion-
They built them like ( well shit straight in the ocean)that because it was easier to go straight to the toilet as well as a quick escape if a rival tribe attacked.
You could also make sure your canoe wasn’t stolen if you sleeping above it.
Originally it was pure practical. Now it’s all tourists and package deals.
hey corey observe my nuts
I was trying to find your point, and then I saw parts go everywhere….
it’s a f nightmare. Enjoy
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Is this the same Peter King who used to wade in here and start saying that there is no anthropogenic effect on the climate and that it’s all made up by money-hungry scientists?
If so perhaps he could quietly take stock of the scientifically verifiable fact that a major effect of the massively increased carbon load in the atmosphere results in increased dissolved CO2 in the oceans, which (basic chemistry) makes them more acidic. This increased acidity means that various creatures (including coral) who use calcium carbonate to make structures (coral, shells, exoskeletons etc) have much more difficulty doing so, as it literally dissolves back into seawater faster than ‘usual’ (as they have evolved to cope with in the last several hundred million years at minimum).
I wonder if Mr. King might wish to point his pointy ire at the fossil fuel industry and other human-led sources of the massive spike of carbon release over the last century rather than engaging in petty squabbles about what amounts to a few square metres of what appears to be ‘relatively’ (compared to say, most of Oahu for instance) healthy coral?
Wait! I thought sunscreen was killing all the coral.
There are indeed ingredients in many sunscreens that cause various biochemical problems for coral polyps and many other sea creatures.
https://oceanservice.noaa.g…
Perhaps, but the fact is is that the sunscreen argument is OUT, and CO2 acidification is IN.
It’s all relevant.
More like a game of Red Rover
Shisheido copped a lot of flak for using one of those chemicals in their products, hence the fairly bizarre reason for them sponsoring the women’s comp.
If the plot didn’t thicken, it’d be runny as all hell. And as we all have come to learn, the WSL ain’t exactly known for running, well shit, just about anything.
They’re certainly good at the runny shit.
PK is a terminal gronk.
Only abortion lovers care about children of the future
i had trouble sleeping last night but instead of counting sheep I repeated anthropogenic over and over until I dosed off. thanks for the sleep aide
Why don’t the surfers boycott?
The crushed coral is really on their hands
Sneak preview of completed tower! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I think Peter meant, transgender women can surf against women.
We get why the WSL has embraced all that is Kelly Slater. Albeit, a warm embrace evermore veering towards the uncomfortable these days. Just didn’t think they’d embrace the funny, cheap, character revealing so wholeheartedly. Bless their billboarded hearts.
You tried so hard to make a political statement, you overshot the landing….
Relax cunts, the WSL will have some of their blonde “athletes” showing up later in the year to demonstrate to the locals how to protect the environment!
Blondes can protect all of us but they couldn’t save Ronnie G!
They were saving him from himself.
“We don’t like the martyred victim syndrome…” signed Saints’ Timothy and Michael. “We wrote that in the bible…”
THIS!
Peter King ?
The one who appears to be a cross between Christian Fletcher and Dimwitty Stool ?
He should get Barton on board, that’ll make people take notice…
Do we really need a comment from everyone on everything…i say as I am commenting on it
Mr Knees, I’m open for ideas on how to spread more positivity as Elo used to but look where that landed him.
Peter seems to have forgotten at this stage the WSL media department is one non surfing Mother that works at head office in-between the drop off/pick up of her Children at school and some work experience kid that helps two afternoons a week.
and groomed ’em with these reads: “Berenstein Bears Say No To Pollution…” “Seuss’s The Lorax…” and after she grew up reading “The Population Bomb…” “Silent Spring…” “Climate Capitalism…” “Carbon War…” and who can forget…”An Incovenient Truth…
That said, am a big fan of Jacques Cousteau and Return of The Pink Panther and China Syndrome and Betty Crocker.