CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

Beginning 2010, smartphones and social media began the systematic destruction of the tail end of the millennials, a significant part of Gen Z, Generation Alpha and ongoing generations. Smartphone technology made it possible, and apps developed in a child brain killing way, thanks to unscrupulous social media companies and app developers. You have to ask do the people at those companies have their...

Jonathon Haidt, in his book,  The Anxious Generation  says: When Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in June 2007, he described it as "a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and breakthrough internet communication device." The first iteration of the iPhone was quite simple by today’s standards, and I have no reason to believe it was harmful to mental healt...

On 9th January 2007, Steve Jobs did what was his most epic launch of what was to be a world changing new product – the iPhone. Just 62 years earlier, the Americans had dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs had killed a mere 105,000 Japanese. The new product that Steve Jobs had launched that day, and that was soon emulated as the Android phone, proved to be much more letha...

In this programme, I’ll finish my interview with Patricia Weerakoon, a retired sexologist who has now written a number of books on the issue of gender dysphoria, and then round up the programme by looking at the chilling threat often made to parents of children who say they want to transition that if they don’t go along with it there is a serious risk that their child will commit suicide. Is that...

Today I continue with the interview with Patricia Weerakoon, expert in the science of sex. Today she’ll discuss with us the effects of masculinising and feminising drugs, including quite severe medical implications and homeostasis. How successful is what is called sex change surgery? How do artificial vaginas work. Young children regretting the changes they have had – the so-called de-transitioner...

There’s a lot of talk about modern medical science being able to change the biological sex of any person to the opposite sex. We’ve come to expect amazing things from our scientists, so is this true or just exaggeration. What’s driving all this. This is the start of a detailed series on this topic. I’m going to start by interviewing an expert on this topic, Patricia Weerakoon. Tag words: assigned...

Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, testified at a House hearing on climate change along with other youth leaders about the cataclysmic climate and the irrefutable proof that it was actually happening. She had this to say about trusting in the science on climate change: Many of the people who tell us that the Great Barrier Reef is dying are people without any belief in God. They don’t believ...

Plastics in the seas. What harm are they doing? Here’s one you mightn’t have thought of thanks to the research work done by Swedish girl, Oona Lönnstedt. Her findings were published in the prestigious science journal called … well “ Science ” obviously. The BBC captured her findings in this story published on 2 June 2016: “ Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way tha...

Did you know that the sunscreen you use when you go into the water to look at the Great Barrier Reef, will kill the reef? In 2018 Hawaii became the first place in the world to ban certain sunscreens. The law came into effect on 1 January 2021. Forensic ecotoxicologist, Craig Downs, tells us that when sunscreen washes off your body and into the ocean the chemicals can cause “bleaching, deformities,...

In June 2021 the  World Heritage Committee , convened under the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), issued a draft report on the Great Barrier Reef, which found that Australia has not done enough to protect the world’s largest coral reef system from the impacts of climate change. It said that the Great Barrier Reef continues to deteriorate and has suffered significant...

Fertilisers from farms along the coast next to the Great Barrier Reef. What can I say. Sigh! Well the World Wildlife Federation had this to say: “ Following the widespread destruction of trees for intensive agriculture, streams that once remained clear following rain now carry sediment and fertiliser pollution out to Reef waters. …. On 5 September 2018, hours after heavy rain, conservationists fil...

I hate to be a Jeremiah (I’m guessing you don’t know what I mean by that – right). Well Jeremiah was a prophet of God in the Old Testament. He had some news for the Jewish state known as Judah, that had Jerusalem as its capital. They had been worshipping idols and God was pissed. They were going to be punished and God was going to use the ruler of the Babylonians, Nebuchadnezzar, to punish them. W...

Up until December 1941 Cairns was a sleepy outpost far to the North of Australia on the Pacific Ocean, with the Great Barrier Reef just offshore. After the whipping the Japanese gave all of the European powers at the beginning of the war in the Pacific, Australia became the essential, unsinkable, aircraft carrier for the United States to continue the war against Japan – and Cairns was now on the f...

The World Wildlife Fund’s 2018 report on the Great Barrier Reef told us the shocking story of how run off from our farms, going into the rivers, is fuelling the breeding of the crown of thorns starfish, causing population explosions that will destroy the reef. Critical in minimising the damage from the Crown of Thorns starfish, the Report tells us, is improving the reef water quality by minimising...

In this programme, and over the next programmes, I’m going to be looking at the extreme danger that our Great Barrier Reef is in. Sir David Attenborough tells: Peter Ridd, a marine geophysicist, and lover of the Great Barrier Reef gives us this useful description of the Great Barrier Reef – something not easy to get your head around - in his book “ Reef Heresy ” he says what everyone says, I’ve ne...

Did you know that if everyone ate a vegan diet, which excludes meat, eggs and dairy products, land-based carbon emissions could be cut by 70% by 2050 that’s the good news from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That good news was published in their 2019 report called “Food Security”. Did you also know that you could easily stop eating living things and be healthier because of it...

I don’t scuba dive. So I don’t speak from personal experience, but I understand that diving off Costa Rica is really something. In the summer of 2015, then PhD student Christine Figgener, was out diving as part of her marine biology studies. She was in a boat, scraping parasites off a marine turtle’s back when she noticed something stuck up it’s nose. She could see that the turtle was in distress...

Everybody loves dinosaurs. Well they do! You name one person that doesn’t. So it was with great sadness that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. Or was it? Have you ever seen Jurassic Park – Lost World. A Tyranosaurus Rex ends up in the suburbs from Jurassic Park. A T-Rex going around your neighbourhood would not be a good look. Your dog’s chain hanging out of its mouth after it had been...

It was a grim call to action. Extinction Rebellion was going to be holding a rally at 180 The Strand, London, United Kingdom on 15 February 2020. The reason – to demand the end of London Fashion Week – so that life on earth could continue. The clothing industry alone, Extinction Rebellion said, accounts for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions – that’s almost equal to the total emissions of the E...

In the spring of 2013 something absolutely incredible happened. A solar powered plane, called “Solar Impulse”, flew across the United States. “ Air & Space ” magazine was positively glowing at this accomplishment, which it said, was “ proving that unfuelled, clean flight is possible. Who needs fuel when the sun can keep you afloat. ” What seemed to be a technological triumph said pretty well e...

I quote: “ The battle to feed all of humanity is over. … hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate. … no changes in behaviour or technology can save us unless we can achieve control over the size of the human population. The birth rate must be brought int...

I don’t know about you, but I just look at those Extinction Rebellion people wearing those red Medieval looking clothes, with their faces painted white and am totally turned off by them. I thought the idea of a major ecological catastrophe was just rubbish. I don’t any more and in this programme I’m going to tell you why. Tag words: Extinction Rebellion; insect extinction; wind farms; McKinsey; Wo...

The world was rivetted over 5 episodes of the 2019 HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” – about the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986. What you saw was pretty horrific stuff – here are some of the most dramatic grabs from the series. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl wasn’t the first time that there had been an accident at a nuclear plant. In 1979 America had the Three Mile I...

Everyone gets excited about the dinosaurs. Their size, their power, the incredible bodies they have. But dinosaurs are nothing compared to the mighty Blue Whale. If you won’t believe me, then you’ll probably believe  . David tell them about the Blue Whale - Let me top what David Attenborough just told you – yes that is possible. A baby Blue Whale gains 4.5kg an hour after birth. What a fantastic j...

Science tells us that for a child to have the best life that it can, it’s essential that it has both biological parents in its everyday life. If you’re a person who thinks you don’t matter, you’re wrong. To a child born with your egg or your sperm, inside the woman whose egg it is, then you’re one of the two human beings of the 8 billion people on this planet, that matter to that child more than a...