Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Infantile Infantino?

FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants there to be a biannual World Cup rather than every one every 4 years. Bizarrely, he has informed the Council of Europe that this change could stop African migrants finding 'death in the sea' (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jan/26/fifa-gianni-infantino-biennial-world-cup-could-save-african-migrants-from-death-in-the-sea). Infantino's argument seems to be that doubling the number of World Cups would increase opportunity and hope for poorer nations. Their elite athletes would be more likely to feature. It would be crass, I suppose, to point out that increasing the number of World Cups, more reliably,greatly increases FIFA's income and power? The doubling of World Cup-related 'greenhouse gas' emissions would also accelerate climate change. Infantino presumably sees no connection between climate change and African migration. A prime reason that people attempt to move countries, is that life becomes intolerable in their current location. The seas would also be somewhat expanded by increased melting ice-caps. Perhaps we can entirely solve the migration problem, by having the World Cup (and the Olympics?) every year?

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.