{"id":1747,"date":"2020-03-22T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2020-03-22T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:31:11","slug":"let-us-follow-the-enlightened-sustainable-ways-of-land-locked-african-death-pits-tim-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Let us Follow the Enlightened, Sustainable Ways of Land-Locked African Death Pits. Tim Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/let-us-follow-the-enlightened-sustainable-ways-of-landlocked-african-death-pits\/news-story\/53a49f0623f39b380f750c299fea8b90<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to the Australian National University\u2019s Liz Hanna, our \u201cshameful\u201d 174th-place ranking<\/a> in the UN\u2019s sustainability index shows that Australia has \u201clost its way\u201d. So which countries should we look to for guidance? Which index-leading nations haven\u2019t<\/em> lost their way and are getting it right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We\u2019ll find out in a moment, but first let\u2019s examine why the UN \u2013 along with the World Health Organisation and Lancet<\/em> \u2013 thinks Australia is such a terrible place to raise children<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Australia children had detailed recall of sports betting advertisements and an extensive knowledge of sports betting products and terminology<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Results showed that children and adolescents were exposed 51 million times to alcohol adverts<\/strong>, with 47% of this exposure occurring during the daytime<\/em><\/p>\n

In Australia, children\u2019s exposure to unhealthy fast-food advertising<\/strong> did not change following the introduction of self-regulation<\/em><\/p>\n

The already substantial proportion of single parent families is expected to continue to rise, to up to 27-40% of households in the USA, Australia, Austria, Japan, and New Zealand by 2025\u201330.<\/em><\/p>\n

Women who are divorced or separated and single-parent families are more likely to live in poverty<\/strong>, which has implications for the social determinants of health.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm. My sister and I were raised by a single parent, and we\u2019ve done OK.<\/p>\n

But imagine how much better our lives would\u2019ve been \u2013 how better all<\/em> of our lives would\u2019ve been \u2013 if we\u2019d grown up in one of the UN\u2019s top five countries as ranked by using carbon emissions \u201cas a measure of a country\u2019s threat to future children\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

No 1: BURUNDI<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too poor to even own a single beach, Burundi is best known as a free-fire slaughter zone where Tutsis and Hutus take turns genociding each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlood flows everywhere in Burundi<\/a>, that\u2019s how things are,\u201d a refugee from this brilliant place told the Guardian<\/em> in 2016. It\u2019s a wonder Burundi doesn\u2019t adopt those optimistic words as a tourism slogan.<\/p>\n

Still, if you are able to survive murderous, machete-armed gangs, starvation and poverty, you\u2019ll have the massive advantage of living (briefly) amid sustainable carbon dioxide levels.<\/p>\n

Which makes Burundi, in the eyes of the UN, the global least-emissions champions. And no child ever suffers from an extensive knowledge of sports betting products and terminology, mostly because they never live long enough to learn them.<\/p>\n

No 2: CHAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another beachless paradise, Chad is celebrated for its colourful traditions of disease<\/a>, corruption<\/a> and female genital mutilation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And with its low, low carbon dioxide output, Chad is 172 countries better than awful Australia. Why, it\u2019s an absolutely ideal place to ride out any threats to your future children.<\/p>\n

Unless they\u2019re girls.<\/p>\n

No 3: SOMALIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month in the UN\u2019s third-placed sustainability wonderland<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At least three children between the ages of 4 and 6 died from hunger and disease<\/strong> in Mogadishu’s Kahda neighborhood internally displaced camps Friday, local media reported. <\/em><\/p>\n

“At least 3 children have died from extreme hunger at IDP camp near Mogadishu. This comes days after UN agencies called for $1 billion to help 3 million people in Somalia,” said Radio Shabelle.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Our life here is miserable<\/strong>, today at least three children died because diseases, hunger and malnutrition and no one cares about us<\/strong>,” Fadimo Hassan, a mother in one of the camps told Anadolu Agency.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cheer up, Fadimo. You\u2019re living in the UN\u2019s third-best place on earth, so don\u2019t let a few dead kids get you down. Think of the carbons! They\u2019re sustainable!<\/em><\/p>\n

No 4: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure, it might be the rape capital of the world<\/a>, but don\u2019t let that minor cultural quirk blind you to the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s impressively minimal and totally non-shameful emissions levels.<\/p>\n

And even if you can only expect to live for just 60 years<\/a> or so, that merely means you\u2019re doing your bit to keep emissions from ever reaching dangerous Australian levels.<\/p>\n

No 5: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proudly among the ten poorest nations on earth, which is their secret to preventing any future carbon dioxide sustainability problems, the Central African Republic is somehow considered to be the worst country in the world for young people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This must be a mistake, because Australia has \u201clost its way\u201d and is \u201cshameful\u201d on account of our emissions and all. We\u2019re obviously 169 countries worse than the Central African Republic.<\/p>\n

The UN says so.<\/p>\n

There you have it. These are the top five nations according to the UN\/WHO\/Lancet<\/em> sustainability index. If you have any questions about the methodology, please direct them to ANU expert Liz Hanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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