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Dear Fellow Climate Activist,



Re Climate Emergency & Culture of Ignoring LETTER to VIPs, Media,
Academics
& all State & Federal MPs



BSc (Hons) (Tasmania), PhD (Flinders) and Grad. Cert. Higher Ed. (La
Trobe),
I have been teaching Science students at Australian tertiary institutions
for 4 decades (1972-2008, in the last 5 years as a part-time
lecturer/demonstrator) and, of course, know that ignoring, lying, denial
and obfuscation are inimical to teaching and learning and, in a wider
social, national and global context, to rational risk management.



Yet extraordinary holocaust ignoring in history books and other
publications
used in Australian schools and universities demands identification and
cautionary labelling of all such publications. Further, the extraordinary
Culture of Ignoring and Lying by Omission in Australia as a whole demands
ethical Alternative Media (e.g. a top quality national e-daily with top,
professionally expert, volunteer commentators is possible for less than $1
million pa but hasn't happened).



Below is a Letter about this Culture of Ignoring that I have personally
addressed to thousands of variously eminent and influential Australian
journalists, academics, politicians and other citizens. The Silence has
been
Deafening - the positive response in terms of re-transmission of these
vital
concerns is so far only 0.2%.



LETTER



I am writing to eminent and influential Australians about serious threats
to
Australia and the World from the Climate Emergency, Exceptionalism and a
Culture of Ignoring. I would be very grateful if you would disseminate
this
analysis to everyone you can in the national and global interest.
Rational
risk management successively involves (a) accurate data, (b) scientific
analysis (with a scientific methodology involving the critical testing of
potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) systemic change to minimize
risk. Unfortunately, as outlined below, this protocol is typically
subverted in Australia and elsewhere by media, politician and academic
substitution of (a) spin, lies, censorship and intimidation, (b)
anti-science spin (involving the selective use of asserted facts to
support
a partisan position) and (c) "blame and shame" (with war and genocide
being
the ultimate expressions of this perversion).



1. Holocaust ignoring & "history ignored yields history repeated". Few
Australians would be aware of the following atrocities involving Great
Britain that have been largely deleted from British history: the Great
Bengal Famine (1769-1770, 10 million victims), the man-made World War 2
Bengal Famine (1943-1945, 6-7 million victims) and the real 9-11 atrocity,
the 9-11 million avoidable deaths associated (so far) with the Bush Wars
(1990-2008). While 3 major histories published recently in Australia
utterly
ignore the WW2 Bengal Famine, in 2008 this atrocity was exposed in a BBC
broadcast involving myself, 1998 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor
Amartya
Sen and other scholars. Denial of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (6
million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) attracts 10 years in prison
in
Austria.



2. Climate Emergency ignored & Great Barrier Reef doomed. According to top
US climate scientist Dr James Hansen (Head, NASA's Goddard Institute for
Space Studies): "paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest
that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350
ppm" and "we face a climate emergency". Nobel Laureate Professor Peter
Doherty:"We are in real danger"; Governor of Victoria Professor David de
Kretser AC: "There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest
problem
confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a
state of emergency"; and top Australian climate scientists: ditto. Yet the
Federal Government and its advisers propose an increase in atmospheric CO2
to 450-550 ppm despite the scientific advice that coral dies above 450 ppm
due to ocean acidification and warming; that ocean phytoplankton and the
Greenland ice sheet go above 500 ppm (with dire consequences); and that
550
ppm is globally catastrophic. The Federal Government and its advisers have
effectively ignored Australia's world leading coal exports and annual per
capita Domestic plus Exported CO2 pollution; the deaths of about 5,000
Australians annually from coal burning-derived pollutants; and the "true
cost" of coal burning-based power (4-5 times that of the highly subsidized
"market price"). "10% off 2000 levels by 2020" (Garnaut) means a 50%
increase in Australia's Domestic and Exported CO2 pollution and "60% off
by
2050" (Federal Government Policy) means a doubling of total CO2
pollution.



3. Ignoring of horrendous Australian child abuse. Unreported by media, UN
Population Division data indicate that the "annual death rate" is 2.7% and
6.2% for under-5 year old infants in Occupied Iraq and Occupied
Afghanistan,
respectively, as compared to 10.2% for Australian prisoners of war of the
Japanese (for which crime Japanese generals were tried and hanged). This
appalling infant mortality is 90% avoidable and largely due to Occupier
non-supply of life sustaining requisites demanded by the Geneva
Convention.
Thus WHO data indicate that "annual total per capita medical expenditure"
permitted in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan is $130 and $26,
respectively, as compared to about $3,000 (in Occupier Australia) and
$6,400
(in Occupier US). Domestically, while the "Little Children Are Sacred"
Report was unable to quantitate the extent of abuse of Indigenous
children,
it quoted data indicating that 34% of Australian women have been sexually
abused as children. Yet these horrendous realities are effectively ignored
and were ignored at the Australia 2020 Summit.



4. Genocide commission and genocide ignoring. Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". "Intent"
can be surely established from "sustained, remorseless policy leading to
destruction". Australia is complicit in an ongoing Iraqi Genocide
(post-invasion excess deaths 2 million, post-invasion under-5 infant
deaths
0.6 million, 6 million refugees); Afghan Genocide (post-invasion violent
and
non-violent excess deaths 4-6 million, post-invasion under-5 infant deaths
2.1 million, 4 million refugees); Aboriginal Genocide (9,000 avoidable
deaths annually; 90,000 avoidable deaths under the previous Coalition
Government; annual avoidable death rate (1.8%) about twice that in
non-Arab
Africa; "annual death rate" 2.2% (Indigenous Australians) and 2.4%
(Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory) as compared to 2.5%
(Australian sheep)); and Climate Genocide ( Australia is a world leader in
greenhouse gas pollution; climate change is increasingly impacting Third
World deprivation that avoidably kills 16 million people annually;
Professor
James Lovelock FRS says that over 6 billion people will perish this
century
due to unaddressed climate change). These horrendous realities are ignored
but I have made a detailed, formal complaint to the International Criminal
Court.



5. Australia ignores acute nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats. The
prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has
nominated nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats as the acute threats
facing humanity. Yet Australia is a major uranium exporter and is
intimately
linked to US nuclear terrorism via joint communications facilities,
military
cooperation and welcome to nuclear-armed naval vessels in Australian
capital
cities. Australia's "annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution"
in
tonnes CO2 per person per year is 27 domestically but 47 including CO2
from
coal exports -10 times worse than for China and the World and 40 times
worse
than for India. Indeed Australia helped the US sabotage the December 2007
Bali Climate Change Conference by firmly rejecting any greenhouse gas
reduction targets and the latest estimate based on Government Policy is
that
Australia will actually double its annual greenhouse gas pollution by
2050.
Australian greed and profligacy is already contributing to the submergence
and salinization of Pacific Island States and devastation of coastal
deltaic
parts of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh adjoining the Bay of Bengal.



6. US state terrorism is killing and threatening Australians. It is
estimated that about 0.1 million people (about 300 in Australia) die
avoidably each year due to opiate drug-related causes. About 0.6 million
people (about 2,000 Australians) have died due to the US restoration of
the
Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 5% of world market share in
2001 to 93 % in 2007 (UNODC World Drug Report data). In mid-2006 25,000
Australian citizens were subjected to bombing and rocketing in Lebanon in
the face of Australian bipartisan support for the perpetrator. UNICEF data
indicates that 2,400 Occupied Palestinian infants (many with Australian
relatives) die avoidably each year due to denial of life-sustaining
requisites by the Occupier - however an Australian Muslim meeting the
zakkat
religious charitable obligation by donating money to sorely deprived Gaza
hospitals potentially faces up to life imprisonment under Australian
Anti-Terrorism laws. 7,000 Westerners have been murdered by Muslim-origin
non-state terrorists in the last 40 years (this total including Israelis
and
assuming no US complicity in the 9-11 atrocity). No Australians have been
murdered in Australia by Muslim-origin non-state terrorists yet UNICEF
data
show that Australia is war criminally complicit in the avoidable deaths of
1,000 Occupied Iraqi and Occupied Afghan infants every day.



7. Australia now ignores the fundamental truth that love of Australia
means
love of Australians, wild Australia and Australian values. By "looking the
other way" Australia is complicit in the avoidable deaths of 9,000
Indigenous Australians every year and the avoidable deaths of about 300
Australians annually due to US opium industry promotion in Occupied
Afghanistan. US intelligence organizations have found that Australians
(and
Americans) are now more threatened from non-state terrorism due to the
Bush
War on Terror (in horrible reality a War for Oil and Hegemony). The
families
of hundreds of thousands of Australians in the Middle East are subject to
real terror from US Alliance and Apartheid Israeli violence. Australia is
acutely threatened by linkage to US nuclear terrorism. Bipartisan
commitment to fossil fuel burning kills about 5,000 Australians each year
from the effects of coal burning pollutants alone. There now appears to be
bipartisan agreement for a new, biological "Brisbane Line" involving the
destruction of WA coral reefs and the Queensland Great Barrier Reef in the
interests of the Australian coal industry. Notwithstanding the 1967
Referendum result, there is bipartisan agreement for race-specific
suspension of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act in relation to Northern
Territory Indigenous Australians. The entrenched mainstream media,
politician and academic IGNORING of the horrendous realities outlined
above
violates not only rational risk management for the safety of Australians
but also violates the principles of a "fair go" and of being "fair
dinkum".
My words and statistics having failed, I have painted HUGE paintings for
Peace and Mother and Child that I would dearly love to DONATE to public
institutions (for images see "Truth , Beauty & Saving the World - Science,
Art & Nuclear, Greenhouse & Poverty Threats":
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq=1
<http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq=1&p=1>
&p=1
) . For further details and detailed documentation of the above see Yarra
Valley Climate Action Group Fact Sheets:
http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/Home and my
recent books "Body Count" (see: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and
http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ) and "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of
British History": (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ). Please
inform
everyone you can.



Yours sincerely,

Dr Gideon Polya,

Macleod, Victoria 3085, Australia

Credentials. Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor &
Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has recently published "Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007:
http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
);
see also his contribution "Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality"
in
"Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics" (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books,
Sydney, 2007):
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm
). He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998
book
"Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History" (see:
http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and
climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine
catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed
6-7
million Indians in the "forgotten" World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent
BBC
broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya
Sen
and others:
http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengalfamine_programme.html
). When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon
Polya's
huge paintings for Peace and for Mother and Child see "Truth , Beauty &
Saving the World - Science, Art & Nuclear, Greenhouse & Poverty Threats":
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq=1
<http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq=1&p=1>
&p=1
) .