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"Climate activists lined the road to this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada
to call out the “privileged mindset” of the Silicon Valley types who flock
there – and the waste involved in creating a temporary city in the desert.
Only a couple of days later, disaster struck. Unprecedented rain – 20 mm in 24
hours – turned the desert into mud, trapping the 70,000 festival goers.
As you might expect, the internet went wild with
schadenfreude. But there’s a
deeper issue here. This is not the first – and won’t be the last – outdoor
festival upended by unprecedented weather. It was only a month ago when the
World Scout Jamboree in South Korea was crippled by intense heat and typhoons,
forcing its abandonment. Last year’s Splendour in the Grass festival in
northern New South Wales turned into a mudpit after unprecedented rains.
Outdoor festivals are a summer rite of passage for many. Warm weather makes
them possible. But summer’s when we often see the wildest weather too. As
climate change loads the dice, we’ll see more festival disruptions, more
often."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
