Daily review 18/04/2024

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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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  2. SPC 2
    18 April 2024 at 7:40 pm

    The Beehive civilian reporting …

    A toadstool growing in a teacup has a cunning plan

    The Ministry of Education loses staff who oversee the food in schools programme.

    There is a review of the food in school programme after they have gone (no one to defend the programme left), done by those with an ideological opposition to government funded and or managed programmes.

    They conclude that the MOE no longer has the capacity to oversight the programme (loss of the staff with the competence).

    They declare government funding has to have oversight to guarantee value for money.

    They suggest continuance of the programme be by outside groups using their own money.

    They say the former government programme may not have been value for money (MOE staff who could refute this now gone) and funding for it expired in 2024.

    They say MOE is now focused on purely educational matters.

    The number of people in New Zealand who think Epsom is a rotten borough poisoning the wider society rises yet further.

  3. adam 3
    18 April 2024 at 11:26 pm

    This is a quote I think applies to NZ well, and this government very well.

    "If cars are the only option in you city

    you don't have freedom.

    You have mandatory microtransactions

    Forced on you by the auto and oil industry."

    adam something

  4. Drowsy M. Kram 4
    18 April 2024 at 11:53 pm

    Cuts to science and environment funding will hinder NZ’s climate response – scientists [15 April 2024]
    New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of economic well-being and tackling climate change.
    https://www.carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyID=31264

    Now whose interests might be served by those cuts?

    38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change [17 April 2024]
    Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees. Based on empirical data from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years, scientists assessed future impacts of changing climatic conditions on economic growth and their persistence.

    Since consumption and economic growth on spaceship Earth contribute to GHG emissions, this forecast is a beacon of hope. Maybe there will be some efforts made to ensure that the burden of income reduction is shared fairly – dreams are free for 2050.

    Looks like the median projected reduction in sub-national income per capita for NZ is -5 to -10% for Kiwis south of the Bombay Hills, and maybe -10 to -20% for the rest.

    Figure 2 in The economic commitment of climate change [Nature; 17 April 2024]]

  5. Tony Veitch 5
    19 April 2024 at 4:42 am

    These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees.

    The trouble is, these income reductions will not be evenly shared – we all know the burden will fall hardest on bottom feeders, both here and overseas.

    But unfair hardship might trigger more vigorous action!

    Whoops, meant to be a reply to 4 above.