All the 'what ifs' in the world matter not at all, when set against the fundamental problems: public inertia and political shortsightedness. While a majority of the public in many nations now appear to accept the science of climate disruption, it seems ...
We're almost too late to prevent global mean temperature from rising disastrously. This might just be our last chance to challenge the status quo. For the first time in my life I'm prepared to risk arrest in an attempt to get the MSM focusing on what ...
Until National's core supporters realise that every last bit of our economic well-being depends on a healthy environment, this dishonesty will continue.Of course the most urgent challenge of all is climate disruption. Every authoritative assessment I've ...
“Voter fury” is indeed spreading, as more people realise that the richest 1% are creaming it while the rest are subject to austerity. However there is a back-story here that is rarely discussed – one that neither the left nor the right have faced up to. Up...
National (and Labour too to some extent) have utterly failed to understand the changing nature of the realities we face. Up till now we've been able to fantasise about endless economic growth - the physical resources upon which that growth is based (...
Totally agree Lucy. He brings nothing to the job except an inflated ego and is utterly unworthy to be a presenter on TVNZ.
Mary, Rosie - totally agree with you. Hosking's sardonic, flippant, self-congratulatory persona is destructive to NZ, because it buttresses those who share his retrograde, selfish and ignorant word-view.
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