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PLASTIC AND INFERTILITY - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967748/ JEZ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5qmIjlaAqQ TANGALOOMA PUMA - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-08/feral-cat-tangalooma-puma-caught-crow-in-stomach-moreton-island/101742590 PULLING OUT - https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/glencore-pulls-plug-on-1-5b-thermal-coal-mine-in-qld-20221208-p5c4px CALLED IT!!!!! - https://thepack.news/african-conservation-parks-use-swedish-cake-electric-motorbikes-to-combat-wildlife-poaching/

Rols: "So... waves push the warm water in to the land" Craig: [patiently] "No mate, again, swell doesn't move the water, the swell moves through the water." Rols: "Ohhhh. Of course. Right on." In spite of the verbatim extract above, this was hopefully an interesting chat to listen to, because Craig Brokensha is an absolute wealth of ocean knowledge and I've been really really keen for the chance to sit down and pick his brains. This guy is an oceanographic beast. Thank you for being so generous with your time Craig you chartlord! Yewww READ CRAIG'S WORK ON SWELLNET >>> https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2022/12/15/get-your-mjo >>> https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2022/11/29/la-nina-the-end >>> https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2022/11/22/why-so-cold >>> https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2022/10/12/202223-tropical-cyclone-outlook >>> https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2022/09/12/analysing-winter-2022

PLEASE DONT SUE ME WSL OR OBRIEN GLASS REPAIR I AM JUST A BLOKE DOING HIS JOB. cheers. And WSL. you really need to nurture the talent you have in the booth. Flow like what Rosy hodge has doesn’t come along every generation. Nurture it and drop some beats. . Source material: 1. https://youtu.be/8r-kW_7LyL8 2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/02/worlds-oldest-recorded-tortoise-prepares-for-190th-birthday-party 3. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-impact-shellworks-biodegradable-plastic 4. https://www.businessinsider.com/notpla-plastic-waste-seaweed-packaging-2020-10 5. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211119-can-flying-ever-be-carbon-neutral *** IG @lucky__roland

1. https://www.drive.com.au/news/volvo-australia-to-go-electric-only-from-2026/ 2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/wheat-grown-indoors-offers-potential-for-global-food-security?leadSource=uverify%20wall 3. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-17/recycle-collapse-proof-plastic-recycling-system-broken/101666054 4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967748/ *** IG @lucky__roland

“We can always cut corners and make things easier for ourselves, but then we’re just devaluing who we are, and what it is that we’re trying to do.” - BOSS. www.pvindustries.com.au

Real word? Nope. Know what it means but? Of COURSE. Another week and another round of enjoyably questionable climate headlines, including the dark art of burning feces to make electricity, and whether gluing your cranium to a painting will help people take you more seriously. Tis a rich world out there people! And our accomatosis will not last forever. REFERENCES >>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/logan-city-aims-to-use-poo-power-human-waste-to-energy/12748782 >>>https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/climate-protester-glues-head-to-priceless-masterpiece-in-dutch-museum-in-latest-shock-protest/news-story/b6fb5785256a618ebb71f9fde79b8e61 >>> ***I couldn't track down the video of the protestors locked in the car, sorry, but i bet you can if you look hard enough*** >>> https://neurosciencenews.com/birdsong-mental-health-21639/ >>> https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/03/31/how-has-birdsong-helped-us-to-stay-calm-during-lockdown >>> https://reasonstobecheerful.world/recycled-chopsticks-su

Ahoy! Well it's been a hot minute since we've wagged chins like this. First pod update in a while and frankly I just don't think my thoughts woulda been all that helpful to youse in the interim. I mean they really might actually not be helpful to you ever. Hopefully not though and you get something out of this! Even if it's just feeling a bit better about yourself and the world we live in. Anyhow lots more talkies to come! With actual real other human people, instead of just me on my pat malone. Choice!

Investigative journalising your own life is like paddling upwind. sometimes, just turn around and WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSH straight into the future, again and again and again. (The real headline: I've officially lost me mind.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i739SyCu9I https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-urine-idUSKCN1N71WR *** IG @lucky__roland

Surf-fried and climate-addled, let's mash some more brain cells together and see what happens! *** *** Long blink or thinking hard? https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/02/joe-biden-dozes-off-cop26-moos-pkg-vpx.cnn >>> Thanks prince william for listening to my podcast, it means a lot and I'm looking forward to hanging out >> *** *** IG @lucky__roland

Time to dismantle all the leaf blowers and send them piece by piece to NASA/Australia Space. Also time to get more people to go surfing. Both matters of urgency. . ----->JOHN BARILARO RESIGNS = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0tMDqWe7wQ . -----> RED HANDED PROPAGANDA = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-02/government-told-science-agency-to-rush-reef-report-release/100422190 . -----> VEZEN WU NEGATIVE IONS =https://www.facebook.com/worldsurf1/photos/scientist-vezen-wu-of-columbia-university-became-convinced-that-the-scientific-e/696332627184140/ *** IG @lucky__roland

Where oh where would we be without surfing, to practice thinking thoughts, and where oh where would we be without this podcast, to call ourselves out for thinking the most silly ones. * And then occasionally - just occasionally - explore the environmental narrative of Australia just long enough to hear a big echoey thunk, and realise we've actually... struck pure+critical gold? Look, I don't want to toot my own horn with too many words here, but I called this one to a tee. * The EXACT scenario we projected a few episodes ago, about how suss it seemed that a "good news" research paper could come out about the Great Barrier Reef days before a vote in front of the World Heritage Committee, has played out EXACTLY how you and I discussed it could. FOI documents proving how vulnerable our scientific institutions are to budgetary intervention, and how high and dry that leaves us regular Aussies in the conservation of our most previous survival assets. * It's all a bit farked really, but still no reason not to have a

Another journey to the bottom of the brain ocean! More thinking thoughts and practicing doing life for the first time. More incisive locked down surf analysis. Exploration of Australia’s abysmal environmental reputation and the misconception of footprint reduction as emotionally prohibitive, rather than the reality (eternally liberating.). Also holiest of surf lords Kelly Slater released a single! Did you know that? Well, he did! In 2014! And I just realised he wrote it about climate change so we dove into that a bit too. cheers r. USED CAR SALESMAN - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/may/10/clarke-and-dawe-keith-pitt-refuses-to-say-a-battery-can-back-up-a-wind-farm-video LOVE HATE - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/uk-government-accused-of-dropping-fta-climate-commitments/100445668 KELLY SLATER SINGS REAL NICE!!! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIdVDfl3zNY *** IG @lucky__roland

"The Reef is healthy" - Aus govt. greenwashing - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/great-barrier-reef-in-recovery-from-bleaching-and-cyclone-damage/news-story/a5731665865ae62fa1e75e5df4b87f6a * "... actually the Reef is still massively at risk" - everyone else - https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jul/29/the-lobbying-push-that-killed-off-a-fight-to-save-the-great-barrier-reef-podcast * and yet - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-23/great-barrier-reef-avoids-in-danger-unesco-tag/100319652 * +++ EXTINCTION REBELLION +++ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7378840/search-and-rescue-squad-called-in-to-remove-protesters-from-parliament-house/ * 6m GWS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PruoblIXM *** IG @lucky__roland

Is wearing excessive aftershave in the surf ok? What’s the real relationship between news and government? Will we really outrun climate change? More questions, more delirium, more chef Ramsay and we bloody loving it mate. Oh, and also, ahem, PEITH KITT IS A SLIPPERY USED CAR SALESMAN and he’s selling your already-broken car back to you. Straya 2021 and another big fat fuck you from us to the IPCC/rest of the world! Just so’s we all know what’s happening here as far as climate politics in this country. Struth. Sorry earth. Anyway thank goodness for G.R. and sunrise tv hey?! Very good. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/24/great-barrier-reef-avoids-unesco-in-danger-listing https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/great-barrier-reef-looks-poor-despite-period-of-coral-recovery *** IG@lucky__roland

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We frothing!!! PS to Barnaby: noone is trying to convince you the climate's not changing... we thought that was you? Mate who are even are ya? Come back to the real world, please. Australia needs you. Creepy Juicy Sausage Face vid 1 —> https://twitter.com/Barnaby_Joyce/status/1209372444726743046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1209372444726743046%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F7news.com.au%2Fpolitics%2Fbarnaby-joyce-shares-bizarre-christmas-message-and-twitter-responds-c-620697 CJSF vid 2 —> https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpGbq1jZcj/?utm_medium=copy_link *** IG @lucky__roland

In my view there’s no overstating the significance of surfing as the holy grail of mental health preservation. I reckon even the shittiest surf is better than no surf at all, for the simple reason of connection time. Vibing with nature, plugging into the mainframe, self-observation/sublimation/preservation, whatever you want to call it... for vitality, there’s just nothing like surfing. Rob works with Waves of Wellness, a charity administering surf therapy to people with the most to gain from feeling ocean energy in their chests. Genuine stoke sessions! Conversations like these make me feel really grateful for the chance to indulge my armchair appetite for all things mental health with the thoughts of someone educated, and in action changing lives. WAVES OF WELLNESS —> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqNlAc09N2s63N_6sNm_4OQpYBBc26rWiKNjiueVnosCRCiA/viewform MASON HO’S LATEST MAGIC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkXqp4JetwY www.wowsandnsurf.com *** IG @lucky__roland

Hmm. Critical agenda items this bulletin: surfing, time traveling, surfing, bathymetry, surfing, mental health, surfing, reality tv, more surfing, more rubbish, more surfing? The usual I suppose. PS bathymetry is the broad study of oceanic topography as opposed to the anecdotal idiosyncrasies of the sandbanks at my local. Here’s a helpful link —> https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=bathymetry PPS obviously there’s no such thing as an accidental hate crime.

This chat was with my friend Inde Halligan and we dove straaaaaaaaaaaight into the deep end of the pool for a chat about life and all of its confusing eccentricities. Inde is one of the fiercest and most committed climate warriors I’ve ever met, and nothing’s off limits to chat about which always makes for a fun yarn. I’ll let what we spoke about do the talking. Enjoy! *** @lucky__roland

I’ve been wondering if maybe the meaning of life is to accept in any given moment that we’re hurtling towards oblivion no matter what, and still be able to have a laugh about things. N’mean? So what’d we talk about this episode. Hmm. Greta Thunderbird. How I’m a hypocrite. Below Deck. Why I’m a hypocrite. E-bikes. Emissions reduction targets. Chris Hemsworth. Bit of everything I suppose? Journey in a journey in a journey, as usual. Hope everyone’s doing ok out there! xoxox