#realitydenial — Public Fediverse posts

Book bans, unintended consequences and mainstream media
Reality is often upsetting

Censorship and challenging of library books in Western nations have risen sharply, driven by organized political campaigns targeting LGBTQIA+ themes, race, and geopolitical conflicts.

* "Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint."
“..It makes some people upset is unfortunate, but reality is often upsetting. This particular reality is especially upsetting … to the parents of the over 20,000 children killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023. Do Sydney officials plan on removing pro-Israel books from their libraries because it potentially upsets these community members?” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

* Book censorship?
That is when the 'the Streisand effect' kicks in: "It is the phenomenon in which an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information." (wikipedia)

* Here is the banned book:
How to Sell a Genocide
The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, By Adam H. Johnson >>
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/
#censorship #books #BookBans #BannedBooks #Sydney #UpsettingReality #libraries #PublicLibraries #HumanRights #liberalism #MassViolence #MSM #MainstreamMedia #TheFourthEstate #journalism #PressComplicity #ManufacturedConsent #DemonisingDissent #genocide #RealityDenial

Hydroclimatic whiplash events and hypernormalisation

The Nasa report: “...is a stark reminder that a hotter planet means more severe floods and droughts. This has long been predicted, but is now being seen in reality."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
#FossilFuels #HydroclimaticWhiplash #floods #drought #ExtremeHeat #climate #MassDelusion #reality #RealityDenial #hypernormalisation

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
"Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced."

“Global warming continues unabated, exactly as predicted correctly since the 1980s, [and] millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences. We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of fossil fuels fast. We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry. Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics and silencing scientists can only lead to harm, and ordinary people will pay the price for that.” Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #RealityDenial #floods #heatwaves

Getting Australia out of climate denial?

Get more sympathetic media coverage by involving the blokes from "resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics"
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00217-6

Farmers, investors, miners and parents:
how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences "Holdout groups in Australia can include people associated with political conservatism, the business sector, farming, the resource sector, some religious groups and some sports fans."
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https://theconversation.com/farmers-investors-miners-and-parents-how-unconventional-climate-advocates-can-reach-new-audiences-249949
#climate #climatedenial #RealityDenial #extractivism #industry #MasculineNorms #conflict #msm #media #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction

"Elections have consequences."

The next time some idiot (or covert hireling) suggests we don't bother to vote because [any of a long list of failed logic], include this with a litany of empirical evidence confirming otherwise.

#RealityDenial

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-data-analyses-missing-mmwr-bird-flu-seasonal-influenza/

"Democracy is designed to mediate the differences among those who believe in democracy, not resolve the conflict over whether to have democracy at all."

"You can’t debate democracy with people who don’t believe in democracy, or debating, or empirical evidence, or anything approximating truth or reality."

#uspol #trump #democracy #wearefucked #realitydenial

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side-rejects-democracy

Bellingen's Tuckers Nob Forest remnant vegetation to be clear-felled

Dr Tim Cadman documents remnant vegetation and rainforest trees that might soon be eliminated by the NSW Forest Corporation. Giant fossil fuel machinery will cause destruction and might bring pathogens (Myrtle rust) from other areas. In the so called 'plantation' area lantana is thriving. Koalas and other wildlife will be robbed of their habitat. Reality and State Forestry maps seem to have nothing to do with each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkYZj2YhUfE
#ForestryCorporation #ClearFelling #NSWLogging #MyrtleRust #weeds #rainforest #BellingenLogging #Bellingen #GlenifferRoad #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #RealityDenial #TuckersNob026027 #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity

Stop rampant approvals of fossil fuel projects in the age of climate consequences

"I’m not exaggerating when I say if we don’t stop this rampant approval of fossil fuel projects, by 2073 we’ll be living through the large-scale destruction of ecosystems and will have breached multiple tipping points, leading to the collapse of our food systems and hellish heat and fires." Professor Tim Flannery

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/09/our-environmental-laws-are-failing-us-in-the-face-of-the-climate-crisis
#FossilFuels #Australia #RealityDenial #TheScienceIsClear #destruction #biodiversity #extinction makers