Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?
we don’t have to, but we probably should.
weka
New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis
Nelson Tasman region is still in a civil emergency and our climate denying Prime Minister is signalling an end to future flood bail outs.
The Thunberg dilemma
If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?
Trump vs Musk
Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.
Meta Ardern
This is about what’s good and what works and why.
The existential moment we are in
As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.
What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?
In a climate crisis world we should be treating farming as a national strategic asset.How would a wealth transfer tax affect that?
Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Yale graduates: leading with empathy is a strength
Ardern at her finest.
The Green Budget
An economy for the people, by the people.
Rock and a hard place: the under 16 social media ban
Given the complexities and conflict over privacy, can MPs be trusted to design a good law?
Tory Whanau leaves Wellington mayoral race for Māori ward
Smart move by Whanau and great for the green and the left.
50501
The US people take to the streets again.
Go Phil!
Phil Goff doubles down on criticism of Trump’s lies.
Which American said this about Trump in 2016?
“well, I don’t know about a dictator, I said a third world strong man. He’s running for President, so no matter what he won’t be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles, which I don’t anticipate it will.”
The Greens plan for a Green Budget
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Moving beyond wtaf?
The Musk takeover
The Australian under 16 social media ban
what did the Australians just do?
It’s almost like we shouldn’t leave the climate crisis to the market
The collapse of SolarZero is a massive red flag.
Hurricane Milton: watching the climate train wreck in slow motion
Catastrophe and meaningful response.
English rising anti-fascism
This is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time
Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Chris
“Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Rob. I can buzz around like a Beehive boy, but I’d like to see you do my job”
Remember that time we had a global pandemic?
how’s it going five years on?
The Budget Day Protests
Protests by Māori and Tangata Tiriti against government policy are underway on the day of the National government’s first budget. Carkoi and Hikoi are taking place in many locations across the country.
The Luxon Government’s War on Nature
“But the truth is that real gains only ever come out of a mobilised civil society and achieving a mobilised civil society is exactly what we have to do.”
– Russel Norman
While the gender/sex culture war rages…
Listen to the detransitioners.
Power cuts or Powerdown?
Powercuts in a wealthy country like New Zealand don’t make us third world. It’s bog standard neoliberalism which has both impeded upkeep of our infrastructure and blocked meaningful climate transition. Third world is when you can’t afford to fix, maintain and futureproof society. Neoliberalism is when you do that by choice.
2.5C and our choices: the bad news and the good news
The Guardian published a major report yesterday on what top climate scientists are saying about the climate crisis.
The best of climate communication
Environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben nails it in two minutes.
The Jack Tame and James Shaw korero
This is politics as it should and could be: human, honest while retaining boundaries, insightful without the need for politicking.
It’s not a culture war, it’s a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.
At least Chris Bishop sleeps in a well made bed
Having a decent home is a human right
The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth
The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.
It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.
What if climate collapse comes much sooner than we expected?
“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”
Why the Climate Strike matters (in case we are still thinking the crisis isn’t urgent)
All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives
F*ck
We can see NACTF’s current fuckery as being part of the same dynamic. The job cuts, mining and oil drilling, attacks on disabled people and beneficiaries, the threat to news media, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, the war on nature, all of these are contained within the climate/ecology crises, and arise out of the same condition
Catherine, Princess of Wales
meanwhile…