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The recent 1 development of accident and disaster insurance over the last century, and its widespread non-commercial adoption across the world in the last 60 years is having a profound influence on buffering climate change. The Economist had a recent article with an excellent graph showing…
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We may think that we now live in more enlightened times where the scourge of racism is finally being dealt to and racist behaviour by politicians is no longer considered acceptable. But recent events suggest to me that racist memes are still being used by…
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Anyone want to lay out what the essential difference might be between picking and choosing between broad categories of migrants and picking and choosing between broad categories of migrants? What's the difference at play in preferring “skilled” migrants over supposedly “unskilled” ones or Norwegian migrants…
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It has been a decade now since Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide proposed amalgamating all of Auckland’s city councils into one enormous entity by dumping much of the Royal Commission’s proposals, then legislating in 2009 and forming the new entity in 2010. Well it's…
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It’s always bugged me that our military forces are under-used in New Zealand. It’s time we invited them to protect us from climate change. They are the only public sector entity in this country with the capacity to do much about it. They are extremely…
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume I wasn't the only one gobsmacked on reading about, in the words of The New York Times: A Louisiana teacher who stood up at a school board meeting and asked why the superintendent was…
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Judith Collins has attempted to steal the limelight in a traditionally slow political period by announcing a new campaign for the National Party. Not against climate change or child poverty or our failing health systems or the housing crisis or ... But against the Government's indifference…
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From the ODT: Jim Anderton's son Chris says he has been overwhelmed with support after his father's death at the weekend. ... Writing on Facebook this morning, Chris Anderton thanked people for the messages of supported he had received: "They uplift me." Anderton was two…
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In today's Herald, Tramways Union Secretary Kevin O'Sullivan has written about the need to end competitive tendering based on driving wages down. It's a simple change the Government could make to improve the lives of tens of thousands of Kiwis. The Herald's editorial call at New…
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The film Coco got best animated film at the Golden Globes yesterday. You should go. Like all outstanding works for children, it works best as a way of getting adults into the theatre to make them understand some things as only their forgotten and frail…
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I wrote a week ago about this year's prospects for National. The post was remarkably popular for this time of year and attracted 178 comments. And I thought I should do the same for Labour to give Standardnistas the ability to discuss this year's prospects…
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Across the front pages of purportedly serious newspapers, column inches have been given over to some nonsense about Oprah Winfrey possibly putting her hand up for the Democratic nomination in 2020. I'll settle for quoting Bill Galston from the Guardian. If the idea that anyone…
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A couple of days ago I wrote a post on what Emily Thornberry (UK Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary) had said about Iran. In not so many words, I wrote that it was "not permitted" to posit a view or analysis that ran counter to official…
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101* of 116 integrated assessment models (IAMs) factored into IPCC synthesis reports mapping a pathway for warming of less than 2 degrees C, include negative emissions technology. For the most part, the technology we're talking about is BECCS (Bio-Energy Carbon Capture and Storage). It's a…
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