Wikipedia describes the last super-continent as Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiːə/[1]) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.[2][3] It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago.[4] In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, Pangaea…
This post was originally published on Baroness Greengross's blog New Zealand legalises assisted dying This post was co-authored by Baroness Greengross and her Researcher Nick Kelly who was the former Campaign Manager to Andrew Little the current New Zealand Health Minister. Last month New Zealand made history by joining a…
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It was announced yesterday that a number of New Zealanders were going to take the reeferendum result to court. From Radio New Zealand: A legal bid is under way to get the results of the cannabis referendum thrown out. A group of more than 350…
The latest Colmar Brunton poll results have been released just in time to get the summer BBQs firing. And the results would not have pleased Judith Collins. They reinforced the election result. Labour was up to 53% and the Greens and ACT matched their election…
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Aotearoa has weathered several storms in recent times. After the Election and with the promise of a vaccine for Covid early next year, we seem to have sailed into relatively calm waters and the safe-harbour protection of a Government that is obviously not going to…
We evolved in the context of natural systems. Once you start connecting, once you start feeling the love of what’s around you, you’re in. So that’s engagement. Judith D Schwartz What could possibly go right? is a podcast interview series hosted on the Post Carbon…
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https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1334064860032688128 https://twitter.com/CubaRaglanGuy/status/1334304858799685632 Why carbon capture and storage and related technologies won't save us. What we can do instead.
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There is a public meeting in Wellington on Monday evening from the Fabians - which is also conveniently being streamed via Youtube and accessible by Zoom. It features Colin James on his recent "Beyond Jacinda" following up on his prescient pre-election piece "After Jacinda". Personally…
Boris Johnson and the UK conservatives must be very pleased. As infection and death rates spike and hospital beds fill up the Pfizer vaccine has been approved and is beginning to be rushed out. After making a complete and utter fcuk up of the response…
Commenting on the government's declaration of climate emergency this week, Minister for Climate Change James Shaw said this, We are saying this is an emergency that has a level of equivalence to any Civil Defence emergency. The Prime Minister however seems to think it's not…
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Colin James and Councillor Tamatha Paul will discuss Colin's paper "Beyond Jacinda" on Monday 7 December at 5:30pm at Baptist Church, 46-48 Boulcott Street Wellington. It will also be shown on Zoom and available on YouTube. Colin's paper ranges over the last fifty years of…
Parliament has finally declared that the country is in a climate emergency. Here are the terms of the declaration:: That this House declare a climate emergency, following the finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that, to avoid a more than 1.5°C rise in…
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Two recent stories shows out of touch National is with the aims and aspirations of young people. And given that young people voted in record numbers last election they could tactically be viewed as bad decisions, putting to one side the respective merits of the…
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