PM Mark Carney has described developing fossil fuel infrastructure as “pragmatic.”
But it’s unclear how a country grappling with abysmal air quality due to wildfires fuelled by global warming will benefit from further fossil fuel development. Deborah de Lange writes.
ramnath
in reply to nowisthetime • • •" She never made it alive to the fourth day.
Everyone involved made a whole bunch of mistakes:
The local guide who wasn't anywhere near her when she fell.
Whoever never advised her to take her own backpack with at least a few things in it that might have kept her alive. (She had nothing with her at all.)
(and though this can't fairly be criticized:)
Mistakes which she very probably made through her own inexperience when she was in her original safe position 1000 ft down (see the photo above).
If she'd barely moved a muscle and stayed exactly there, maybe very carefully, inch by inch, digging herself a kind of bucket seat, they'd have reached her the next day and she'd only have had to make it through one bad night.
We'll never know, but I'm guessing she panicked, tried to climb out on her own or change her position, and then fell far further, likely injuring herself badly.
There are quite a few signs that the Indonesian rescuers weren't very expert or experienced. Americans, Europeans or Russians would have got her out well within 24 hours. If I'd been i/c the rescue effort, I'd have commandeered a military sea rescue helicopter with a 2000 ft steel cable and winch, and trained operators who could pull anyone out of anything. Nothing like that ever happened.
Deaths occur in adventure sports all the time. But the very worst kind are when someone is clearly alive and yelling for help, but for one reason or another just can't be reached or helped in any way. "
clarice overhere
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