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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/government-puts-major-kauri-dieback-plan-on-the-backburner.html
The greens must live being part of a government that build roads and kills Kauri.
Odd for you to suddenly stand by the Tree Council.
I'm almost certain you'd berate them for any tree-protecting activism which might affect private property rights.
I suspect you only commented on this because you think a wedge might be driven between coalition partners.
No I’m laughing at the greens – and pointing out how useless they are in government.
In fact they are doing extremely well at their first go at government. It must be remembered Damian O'Conner is Minister of Biosecurity, not a Greens MP.
I'm sure the Greens are aware of the MPI proposal and perhaps they don't like it either.
You don't happen to know the cost of the proposal, do you? And how much of the total has been funded so far?
The journalist sure as hell didn't bother to find out.
With the new boundary changes to the New Lynn electorate mapping near-perfectly over the remaining Kauri forests, I'll be looking forward to what Labour MP and Chair of the Finance Committee Deborah Russell has to say on this.
Perhaps the government decided MPI's "Kauri Dieback National Pest Management Plan" wasn't robust enough or the way forward.
There's zero information in the article James linked to about who was involved in drawing up the plan or even how much it cost. Pretty basic info I would have thought.
Seems to me the government is saying to MPI, "do better".
That’s how it seems to you huh?
seems to me that the government (in their year of delivery) couldn’t even get this right.
On the same theme did you spot this story last week:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018731972/high-tech-predator-control-scheme-a-first
Looks like a great success. Interestingly it exploits a technique that was first tried out by GWRC employees in the Orongorongo water catchement. At the time I don't think many people paid much attention, but here it's been extended into a major West Coast valley system with fantastic results,
Plus it's an area I visited a few times many years back and it's delightful to see it again.
Only james could put up a half assed post.
Mate the journalist is an idiot becasue they said this – "The only way to protect trees is to stop it spreading." The pathogen was spread around for years before we saw the obvious effects of dieback. So we have no idea how far it's spread. Also the western Australian example has shown no matter how much money you throw at it trying to stop it spread, it does not do much to stop it's spread.
My fear is there is only one way to stop it, and the problem is how you stop it will cause major heartbreak. The dieback pathogen has to have living hosts. You remove any living host, whether it is a resistant host or a susceptible host, for a period of time, and the pathogen will die – problem solved.
But the solution is one which means all our old trees are gone. Not exactly a vote winning plan.
I'm for not throwing money away on this issue. Until we have alternate workable solutions, or do the hard ones.
Electric cars need roads.
Would be pretty funny t-shirts if you took off the Trump bit tbf