It is a little odd when you are tipped off about malfeasance in your own backyard by a London-based alt-media company. But this has happened. It is all about floods, climate “emergencies”, local government, corporate wokeness and forced relocations.
It is all about so-called “managed retreat”. Defined as follows:
Managed retreat involves the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and buildings away from risks. This may involve the movement of a person, infrastructure (e.g., building or road), or community. It can occur in response to a variety of hazards such as flood, wildfire, or drought.
Sounds like a good idea … Sane. Sensible. But, there is a but. And it concerns ideological capture. And agendas. And coercion.
Off Guardian (Paul Cudenec) takes up the story.
In Australia and NZ, "managed retreat" schemes could force people out of homes that "climate change" models render "uninsurable".
Shocking evidence is emerging from Australia and New Zealand of how the climate scam is being used to impose a techno-totalitarian smart-city future.
The criminocratic global imperialists often use their Commonwealth colonies to try out the most insidious escalations of their tyranny – think of Canada, New Zealand and Australia during Covid.
We can therefore assume that this is going to be the blueprint for the roll-out of their Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda across the world.
The sinister scheme in question, called “Managed Retreat”, has been exposed by independent researcher Kate Mason on her excellent Substack blog aimed at “deconstructing 4IR narratives”.
The idea is that exaggerated “modelling” of the imagined effects of “climate change” is being used to define certain areas as unsuitable for human settlement.
Working hand in hand with the state is the insurance industry – long a central part of the corrupt criminocratic empire – which deems homes in these areas to be “uninsurable”.
Banks are also playing their part (of course!) saying they are unwilling to provide mortgages for these “uninsurable” properties.
Criminocratic. Very appropriate here. Bank strikes. Climate change. Uninsurable. Alarm bells are suddenly ringing. The aforementioned Kate Mason weighs in:
Finding the information on climate change modelling and insurance has joined the dots for me regarding the enormous amount of pack and stack housing developments going ahead in Australia.
They’re going to need to put us all somewhere when our houses are uninsurable and we have to sell them for a pittance.
It is clear that this is ‘Resilient’ Smart Cities. Everything hooked up to the internet and data collected, stored and used as modelling to dictate increasingly dystopian government measures of control and enforcement”.
Ah, a conspiracy theorist! Thank goodness someone is joining the dots. Once we all called “joining the dots” social science, or simply doing your homework. We were sure in the conviction that the powers-that-be hide things, gild lilies and prevaricate, as a matter of course. And sure in the conviction that digging is required. Call it “research”. Being an informed citizen. In other words, a proportionate response in the age of technocracy, deep states, propaganda and censorship. If governments, NGOs and corporates told the truth about their decisions, agendas and intentions, there wouldn’t be a need to join any dots. Just as we wouldn’t need Independent Commissions Against Corruption if public officials weren’t, well, corrupt.
Importantly:
By way of confirmation, [Kate] reveals that the Insurance Council of Australia, involved in Managed Retreat, works within the Public Private Partnership model and adheres to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, even being a foundation member of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance.
This is where the preferred globalist model of PPPs comes in. As Lenin (or perhaps Leonardo da Vinci) said, everything is connected to everything else.
I mentioned local malfeasance. It turns out that my current home, Lismore (New South Wales), is on the hit list for places to have managed retreat.
The mayor of Lismore – yes, he who was recently granted an audience with the new Governor-General – voted against his own party councillors to push through the current growth plan for the city.
https://www.echo.net.au/2022/12/mayors-vote-foils-team-krieg-over-growth-strategy/
I am uncertain as to Mayor Steve Krieg’s motivations – a sudden conversion to his colleagues’ version of climate science, perhaps, or fear of what he takes to be the views of his constituents, or some form of log rolling in which he bargained for councillors’ support on some other issue.
Then we come to the Climate Council, and the issue of insurability as a threat to freedom of location. As Off Guardian notes:
Also in 2022, a body called the Australian Climate Council released a study which estimated that 1 in 25 of all homes and commercial buildings in the country would become effectively uninsurable by 2030 because of “worsening extreme weather events”.
River flooding posed the biggest risk, according to the study, with flash flooding and bushfires identified as the other main hazards contributing to properties becoming “uninsurable”.
As well as calling for “managed relocations”, the report stressed the need for “upscaling public investments in resilience” and to “support communities to ‘build back better’”.
It declared: “Towns, cities and communities must be rebuilt – where appropriate to do so – in a way that takes into account the inevitable future changes in climate and makes them more resilient”.
It comes as little surprise that this report was proudly showcased on the website of the World Economic Forum…
The Climate Council, ironically, given this is a story about floods, contains one Tim Flannery, he who once stated that there was no point building dams because – we were in the middle of a bad drought at the time – it was never going to rain again! It is amazing how some people never get called out on their grossest bungles.
Kate Mason also identifies other actors in on the scam. The climate gift that keeps on giving. The money laundering scheme from central casting.
She mentions Climate Valuation, the Climate Risk Group and Karl Mallon, and their climate models (XDI), in particular. Mallon is an “expert” who was consulted recently by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30 Report. It was a report by Climate valuation that included Lismore among a host of “in danger” suburbs and cities.
https://app.hubspot.com/documents/7735589/view/820005877?accessId=b42d30
Now we have black zones and red zones. All conveniently out in the regions where votes and voters do not matter and away from the green voting cities where people believe this crap. Is anyone suggesting the Bondi and Manly millionaires be coerced to move? By declaring their seaside properties uninsurable? I didn’t think so.
I understand that Professor Flannery has a property in Manly.
And it is all done by nut-job modelling. Remember the old rule, models are evidence of nothing. In the case of “Going Under”, the methods chosen and the assumptions inputted have been rejected as too outlandish by, wait for it, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). They say the modelling chosen is “extreme” and “implausible”. How many rats can one smell at once?
It is opening up yet another front in the climate wars and, at the same time, using carefully chosen “experts” to scare people witless in ways to which we have become used since March 2020. Another version of white coat syndrome and gaslighting.
Mallon has it all worked out. Get the insurers, in on the climate “agenda”, to say a place is “uninsurable”, then, well, you can say it is “uninsurable”. And people will believe you. Then kick out the punters! Manage them out, like brutal bosses often do to their dissident underlings. But it is only so because scammers say it is so. It is a right royal stitch-up. If this sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy, well, I am coming to that. It is all empty assertion based on quicksand.
Next, we have the suck-hole insurers, as noted, up to their armpits in the climate narrative and the climate ideology. Doing their bit!
https://insurancecouncil.com.au/issues-in-focus/climate-change-action/
The Climate Council is adding fuel to the fire (or water to the flood) on the insurance question. The insurance CRISIS, as we now are advised.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/weathering-the-storm-insurance-in-a-changing-climate/
As always, based on the big lie:
Extreme weather events are worsening across Australia.
They are not. But if you say it often enough, in a low-information world, you are nearly all the way home.
Another lie:
Climate change is causing premiums to rise, forcing many people to reduce their cover or opt out of insurance altogether.
It is not.
We all noted in Lismore that the insurers instructed contractors to go in right after the floods and remove all the internal walls of affected houses. That made them “uninhabitable”, a bit of a problem for the residents who had nowhere else to go and who awaited, patiently, one of the many government agencies claiming to care about the victims actually to do something. It was a bit like the old Yes Minister line, “we will offer every form of assistance short of help”.
What about the actual climate science said to be driving this sinister nonsense?
The outstanding Roger Pielke Jr, a real climate scientist and not merely a grant-troughing academic, explains elegantly and succinctly why climate and climate change do not, and cannot, drive extreme weather events.
It is now a ubiquitous cultural ritual to blame any and every weather event on climate change. Those hot days? Climate change. That hurricane? Climate change. The flood somewhere that I saw on social media? Climate change.
With today’s post, the first in a series, I go beyond the cartoonish media caricatures of climate change, which I expect are here to stay, and explore the actual science of extreme events — how they may or may not be changing, and how we think we know what we know, and what we simply cannot know.
Let’s correct one pervasive and pathological misunderstanding endemic across the media and in policy, and sometimes spotted seeping into peer-reviewed scientific research:
Neither climate nor climate change cause, fuel, or influence weather.
Yes, you read that right.
Climate change is a change in the statistics of weather — It is an outcome, not a cause.
I often use hitting in baseball as an analogy. A hitter’s batting average does not cause hits. Instead, a batter’s hits result in their overall batting average. Lots of things can change a batter’s hitting performance, but batting average change is not one of them. (Emphasis in original).
That’s it, simply stated. Floods are not caused by climate change. If someone suggests otherwise, ask them to explain how, and see how they go with that. Pielke’s basic science should be spread far and wwide.
Much of the hysteria about floods (in particular, these days, since droughts seem but a distant memory on the east coast of Australia) that pervades low-information discussions of climate rests on the false assumption that floods are likely to increase and get worse. There is simply no evidence for this tosh. It is merely accepted at face value when someone with a fancy title proclaims it. And it drives policy and is allowed to drive decision-maker behaviour, in order to change household behaviour. Call it nudging, another term of which few of us had heard prior to 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
That’s why it matters that dissidents change climate narratives. This is no longer an arcane scientific debate. This is corrupting corporations, frame-shifting governance, diminishing universities, laying landscapes to waste and costing trillions. And in the case of managed retreat, it is a massive attack on personal freedom. Choosing where to live is pretty much a fundamental human right. Denying this right, especially when it is your own home we are talking about, reduces people to chess pieces to be moved around the board. All over a non-problem.
The whole thing is an example of the logical fallacy we know as the self-fulfilling prophecy.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come true. In the phenomena, people tend to act the way they have been expected to make the expectations come true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
But this is a rigged self-fulfilling prophecy. All sorts of actors are out there making sure that it happens. Then they can say, “told you so”. In the case of managed retreat, it involves self-proclaimed climate gurus, modellers, local councils and their (ideological or brainwashed) staff, planners, consultants, insurance companies and (inevitably) banks.
John Howard might take local government for granted, but I don’t. And the World Economic Forum doesn’t either. We should all be very alarmed, especially those of us who inhabit black zones or red zones. The powers-that-be want to change behaviour and control lives. And they are more than happy to use idiot-councils to achieve their ends. And whether the connection has been made here between managed retreat and the other globalist objectives like smart cities and fifteen-minute cities, or not – that requires broader digging and triangulation – it is the case that local councils are some of the greatest fans of smart cities. And of globalism. And guess which city is one of the pioneers of the idea in Australia?
https://www.ecorenewableenergy.com.au/articles/building-smart-cities-australia-6-notable-projects/
In a footnote, it is beyond ironic that the Mayor of Lismore, a businessman, has, since the twin floods of early 2022, renovated and re-opened an old pub in the down town as what has become a thriving café and bar. Right in the middle of the flood zone. Norco Ltd has performed a massive renovation costing many tens of millions, with government help, right on the river. And a new 7-Eleven servo has opened across the road from Norco. They each seem not to be expecting more frequent and worse floods anytime soon. The Mayor has (rightly) made a virtue of his own willingness to invest in the city’s future.
Go figure.
Paul Collits
7 July 2024
Have just taken delivery of Stephen Baskerville's new book, Who Lost America? Why the US went "Communist" and what to do about it.
Only a quarter way through it but he's castigated the conservative side of politics for allowing the Left to enforce a silent coup. His remedy appears to be that we must all get involved in the political process at grass level. It's a pity because political types are tremendous bores and no normal person is interested in wielding power over his fellows. But if that's what is required to keep the tyrannical repulsive "progressives" at bay, then I'm all for it.
Speaking of Baskerville, he's well worth reading on whatever topic he targets. He's that very rare beast; an intelligent academic who can also write very well.
Not sure what your beef is. Developers are still building in flood zones. They employ engineers to do the studies and then if necessary go to court to fight in their corners. It has always seems crazy yo me to live anywhere near a flood zone. I suspect if you live in flood zone, climate change or not insurance will be increasingly difficulty to obtain. Understandably so. There is lots of rain events occurring at present.
I get the the climate change issues is garbage. Not all engineers who do the flood studies believe in the climate cult.