It’s real when an All Black does it

Climate change is rewriting the rules of the planet. Here in NZ we are being warned of “the end for farming as we know it“. There have been any number of warnings and calls to action, most recently from “Wise Response”, and Otago based initiative featuring “100 prominent New Zelanders”. Like the other groups before them, Wise Response didn’t seem to make a ripple in the shallow pool of blather that is the media in NZ. That is, until…

Yes folks, that was top of the page in yesterday’s (online) Herald. 100 prominent New Zealanders warning about the most serious threat we have ever faced – meh. It’s only newsworthy, it’s only real, when someone associated with the All Blacks does it. Sigh.

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