Daily review 25/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 25th, 2019 - 8 comments
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Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN Climate Action Summit: “This is all wrong”
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Date published: 9:48 am, September 25th, 2019 - 7 comments
“How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just ‘business as usual’ and some technical solutions?”
Open mike 25/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 25th, 2019 - 196 comments
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BoJo cornered
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Date published: 1:03 am, September 25th, 2019 - 75 comments
Lady Hale and the UK Supreme Court have torpedoed Boris Johnson’s cunning plan to prorogue Parliament. His request to the Queen was “unlawful, void, and of no effect.” Her Maj will not be pleased. Johnson is now boxed in – ask for an extension to Brexit, or resign.
Daily review 24/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 24th, 2019 - 28 comments
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Fairy tales of eternal economic growth
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Date published: 8:13 am, September 24th, 2019 - 67 comments
Greta Thunberg has spoken at the UN Climate Change summit and has warned the world that it is stealing the dreams and hopes of young people through its failure to address climate change.
Climate choices
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Date published: 7:15 am, September 24th, 2019 - 16 comments
There’s good news and there’s bad news in the landmark United in Science report.
Open mike 24/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 24th, 2019 - 80 comments
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Daily review 23/09/2019
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Date published: 5:28 pm, September 23rd, 2019 - 22 comments
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Open mike 23/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 23rd, 2019 - 125 comments
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Lying : the preferred denier behavior
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Date published: 3:45 pm, September 22nd, 2019 - 26 comments
In a striking example of the typical climate change denier, the “Australian Young Coal Coalition” released a photo bemoaning the mess left by friday’s climate change strike rally in Hyde Park. Pity that it was a lying fake. Being put out by climate change deniers, of course it was just a lie. That is all […]
How To Get There 22/9/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 22nd, 2019 - 12 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 22/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 22nd, 2019 - 104 comments
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National’s rhetoric problem
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Date published: 7:48 am, September 21st, 2019 - 19 comments
National has displayed a concerning level of rhetoric this week involving a misrepresentation of the GDP figures and the attacking of a board appointee who cannot respond.
The climate action momentum
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Date published: 7:05 am, September 21st, 2019 - 33 comments
The global School Strikes this week and the upcoming International Rebellions are part of a large wave of change that gives us a chance at preventing the worst of climate disaster.
Open mike 21/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 21st, 2019 - 105 comments
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Daily review 20/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 20th, 2019 - 11 comments
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The NZIER Report on dairying and fresh water
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Date published: 8:47 am, September 20th, 2019 - 19 comments
“New Zealand does not face stark choices between having a dairy sector versus having clean waterways. Experience shows that, by focusing on profits, not production, farms can increase their economic returns and reduce their impact on the environment.”
Open mike 20/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 20th, 2019 - 187 comments
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Daily review 18/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 19th, 2019 - 11 comments
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Where is the Government on oil reliance?
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Date published: 7:57 am, September 19th, 2019 - 14 comments
Even though New Zealand is one of the most oil-reliant countries on earth, the Government has a disturbing lack of a plan for security of supply.
No Right Turn: Against facial recognition
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Date published: 7:10 am, September 19th, 2019 - 21 comments
“we should be outlawing this intrusive technology and the tracking it enables and entails.”
Open mike 19/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 19th, 2019 - 94 comments
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Macron speech – The end of Western hegemony
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Date published: 2:09 am, September 19th, 2019 - 21 comments
France President Macron’s remarkable and wide-ranging speech to French ambassadors after France hosted the recent G7 conference in Biarritz is well worth a read. He lays it all out – so much better than Trump’s tweets or BoJo’s bluster.
Daily review 18/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 18th, 2019 - 28 comments
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Ihumaatao must be returned to mana whenua says Kiingitanga
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Date published: 1:51 pm, September 18th, 2019 - 149 comments
“Mana whenua agree they want their land returned, so they can make decisions about its future.”
Every day New Zealanders
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Date published: 12:37 pm, September 18th, 2019 - 20 comments
Simon Bridges thinks that Jacinda Ardern’s international campaign to change the way that social media handles hate speech and terrorism a big talkfest that will achieve nothing, even though Facebook has as a result announced significant changes to its platform.
China, Climate Conference, and New Zealand
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Date published: 7:44 am, September 18th, 2019 - 4 comments
At the United Nations Climate Action Summit next weekend the question may be asked what would happen if China stopped buying Australian coal?
Open mike 18/09/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 18th, 2019 - 54 comments
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Daily review 17/09/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 17th, 2019 - 30 comments
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The strange case of Oravida and the rupturing of the Ruakaka jet fuel line
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Date published: 1:17 pm, September 17th, 2019 - 16 comments
An independent inquiry has concluded that an Oravida associated company was most likely responsible for the rupturing of a jet fuel line in 2017.
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