The story of New Zealand’s most polluted lake is the same story running through all of New Zealand society. We treat nature as an after thought that we can fix when things go wrong, even when we can’t. What if we told a different story?
An application to dam the Waitaha River on the West Coast has been declined. When looking at how to meet human needs, we need to do better than ‘how much can we get away with taking from nature?’
photo – Zak Shaw
If we want to prevent the extinction of whitebait it’s time to stop buying and selling it.
Water is both the front line and the rallying cry.
Water is life not merely wadeable.
