diesel95 wrote:
Robert Walls was one of the best players of the game ever and as captain coach of Fitzroy he taught primary school and was my after school cricket coach for a couple of years. sure the game has changed, but was it a terrible game for the lack of professional, sorry, stratospheric salaries for players, coaching staff, administrators and all the hangers on at AFL House?
there’s so much money outside of the problematic industries (gambling, alcohol, fossil fuels…) who only advertise with Carlton and other Clubs or entree into sponsorships for the sole reason that your kids are very impressionable, your kids idolise the players of AFL, and putting the dodgy logo on Crippa, or Charlie, or Sadie, or Harry’s jumper normalises an industry that is on the nose and young adults are turning their backs on in the job market, so tarnished are the reputations of many of these problematic corporations.
Ampol im looking at you. not the worst of a very bad lot when it comes to multinational Fossil corporation but the entire industry lobby as one to run climate denial propaganda and fix against progressive and appropriate legislative unitives to transition economies away from FF dependency ASAP.
the push back on Climate policy in Austrlalia which reaches deep into all three major parties in all kinds of grey-corruption type way includes the Labor Party such that WA Labor, on behalf of foreign owned entities like Chevron, Woodside and local mining money like Gina Reinhardt, was able to convince Federal Labor to abandon the decade long policy to review the much documented, repeated failures of Environmental law to protect the environment in Australia, and to make climate change a consideration within applications under the EPA Act. Just like that, a decade of work within Labor by LEAN and all manner of NGOs etc thrown out the window by Albanese bc WA Labor pollies got cold feet (and many WA Labor MPs are some of the most disingenuous pretenders, acting for corporate interests, who you will ever meet).
but who cares if in 2050 playing outdoor sporting games in many counties will need to make allowances for extremes of weather interrupting their entire playing season each year. and that’s the least of catastrophic outcomes that even just 2.0 °C (which is now a virtual certainty and much higher can still potentially combe reached with emissions still rising and the long lag between emissions reduction and lowering of heating impact) will unlock on most nations. regular drop failures lead to famines and mega-sized mass migrations of populations, especially in poorer countries. th r Syrian civil war was largely precipitated by repeated crop failure and mass migrations of destroyed farming communities to Damascus, when infrastructure couldn’t cope and political tensions became extreme. Can happen everywhere and anywhere given a tipping point in climatic disruption.
You're straying into territory that I've avoided for the sake of sticking with the relatively light topic of footy (and keeping with the theme of a footy site) and to keep a few heads from exploding...but yes, in a manner of speaking, the real world and the footy bubble are increasingly on a collision course, and it would be nice if Carlton could be at the forefront of recognising this instead of being one of the laggards. Yes, Ampol sucks, even if they're not the worst, WA is virtually owned by Chevron and Woodside and their ilk, Chevron is particularly despicable on a world scale for a variety of offences because they're too big to fail or be held accountable, especially with Trump in power, and the fact that Woodside is a relatively more local sportswashing version of Chevron makes it so much harder for me to feel happy for their sponsored team Freo if the first flag finally drops.
As for Gina, hard to tell what's more offensive - her politics or her poetry.
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