Transportation is a necessity in our modern world, fossil fuels just happen to be the means by which most of that has been powered. Oil companies funding politics is likely to obstruct the essential changes that we need to make to power our society by ...
It's not a perfect analogy, but I think the oil companies are like the drug pusher and we are the fossil fuel addicts, so Chris Trotter is wrong and there is a very big difference. We need help to kick our fossil fuel habit. Help like good public transport...
It's been a while since I commented here at the Standard, but I can't stay quiet on this! Gumboots on carpet! Totally unacceptable.
Labour won the party vote in all 6 Maori electorates, closely followed by Te Pati Maori ( who had very left wing policies) Just saying
How about reducing/ eliminating the massive fees to study Medicine and Dentistry in exchange for a few years bonded work in public clinics.
Most dentists ARE part of the capped fee scheme to provide free dental care to under 18s
We have been getting kingfish down here in coastal Otago occasionally, due to the marine heatwaves. Nice fish to eat sure, but it will end badly. It's not "probably" and "if"
Haven't commented here for years, but what I interpret as " those with co morbidites were going to die soon anyway, so let's just let it rip" thing is really pissing me off. I'm nearly 60, type 1 diabetic, haven't had a day sick off work for 7 years and ...
1 million people in Auckland don't live near dairy farms though. They won't know that you have to shut the air intake into the car in many places. Worse when biking past . If we could bottle that smell and release it into the malls in the cities......just ...
What's changed in the Maniototo and elsewhere is that many farms have converted to dairy. BTW,Living down south and travelling past intensive dairy farms you can't help notice the stink. Lots of farming practices smell but dairy takes it to a whole new ...
Thank you lprent for all your work setting up The Standard and keeping it going. I like how this site is so fast at getting posts up about current political issues and events. If I hear a snippet of info on a news bulletin I often come here to find out ...
Kia ora from a very soggy East Otago. This combination of heavy rain and big tides shows us how vulnerable our infrastructure is to projected sea level rise. This government is spending billions restoring SH1 and the rail line from Christchurch to Picton, ...
Why were National so determined to stick with Barclay for so long even when the local party members made it clear that he was a liar and obviously not suitable? Would it be anything to do with his tobacco company links? Are the Nats big wigs tied into ...
Sorry, warning taken on board. I really wasn't meaning to impose any rules and, yeah, being a bit sensitive about the closed mind bit. Haven't been commenting for a while, need to toughen up. I've been involved with overseas volunteers on local ...
"What a closed mind you and other detractors must have." Wow- what a nasty response to a question imagining how kiwis might respond to doorknocking by American interns. If that's an example of how a Labour Party Aucklander replies to a genuine question, ...
Just wondering what others think of the idea of foreign (mostly US) people campaigning for Labour? Would kiwis respond positively to someone flown in from another country telling them how to vote? I don't think it's a very good idea.
Greywarshark- just wrong. Racism is discriminating against people because of their race. You don't get to make up your own definition D'Esterre- what do you do,or say,to cause people to call you racist?
IMO we need more information out there about the importance of reducing CO2 emissions. I haven't mentioned restricting anything.
We have anti drink driving messages for the public good. We don't allow cigarette ads. Guess that might be restricting freedom of expression to a certain type of troll.
Behaviour has to change- yes. But the messages to buy, drive, fly, must change. The messages that turn up on facebook. The ads on TV. The billboards. The ads when we are online. How else do you think people are going to start thinking about their carbon ...
We've got a society where almost all information comes in via social media and (for the older generation TV). Almost all the messages are telling people to consume, fly and drive - because that's freedom and "you deserve it". Somehow the message HAS to ...
It does look very casual. Addressed to "Hello there" . No last name or position from the sender. I know formal writing standards have declined in recent years, but surely that's a bit too relaxed for a formal complaint. Though they did refrain from using ...
Hey Jordan, Interesting word choice there...."who want to see a true 100% clean and green image"..... IMAGE. It's reality that matters, not the f-ing 'image'
Lots of us already pay for household water
Andrew Little stating that there would be no new taxes demonstrates that he and Labour don't get it. We need a carbon tax. We need it before 2020.
Thanks weka. If you want to change the government then a vote for NZF is a gamble. Who knows which way Winston will go.
Ticking New Zealand First at the ballot box is not voting- it's gambling.
According to RNZ, Northland is currently experiencing a "deluge after a dry spell ". That's the type of weather that climate science has predicted we will have more of as the world warms
If only journalists would call out the PM on comments like that in live interviews instead of asking stupid questions like about how people feel about being evacuated.
+1 The message that I got loud and clear over at TDB, is that the left is a working class male thing and the rest of us (ie women) need to STFU
The Daily Blog's moderators make that site a joke. There's no discussion unless you toe their line. I wrote 1 comment last night that they let through, foolishly I commented before I had read all of Bomber's writing on Jackson (note to self- no more ...
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