Proof of how NZs environmental law gets dumbed down

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Simon Bridges, the Minister who signed off on a coal mine in a national park and who roughed up human rights so as to give the Oil Industry power to arrest protestors at sea has seen the light on climate change…………………….but he doesn’t completely agree with the Government’s Carbon Zero by 2050 policy.

This is evidence of how NZs environmental law gets dumbed down.

The joke here is that what the new Government has offered, to be carbon neutral by 2050, is actually meaningless sophistry, so what National are arguing for is a more pointless version of a solution that is a bandaid to a decapitation.

We will go from a band aid for a cut off head to an ointment.

By 2030, over 50% of the oceans will be collapsing as bio-habitats.

By 2030, East Coast cities in the U.S. can expect to see two to three-times as many flooding incidents.

By 2030, 122million will be driven into extreme poverty as  direct result of climate change.

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By 2030, 100million will die as a direct consequence of climate change.

By 2030, even if the Paris Agreement is actually implemented, we will see a planet warm to 3.4 degrees by the end of this century meaning there will effectively be no future civilisation capable of surviving on a planet that warm.

By 2030, the global annual cost of global warming will be $3trillion.

By 2030, the number of extremely hot days — classified as maximum temperatures of more than 35C — are tipped to climb in all capital cities.

Being Carbon Neutral 20 years after those events isn’t a solution, it’s a wish wrapped in hope held together by snot.

How the Christ is this political leadership by Bridges?

Simon’s call to do less than sweet bugger all can only be considered political leadership if you are the oil industry, you know, the one Simon went out of his way to help mug NZ civil rights to protest for.

We have a Government and Opposition arguing over the pretence of a solution. How the fuck did we get to such an empty moment when what we need is urgency, vision and courage?

Climate change is an existential threat to our species.

At least Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. This is barely clapping.

12 COMMENTS

  1. If the National Party has truly changed its tune on climate change then we can reasonably expect Simon Bridges to voice his support for Labour’s no new offshore drilling permits.
    Yeah right!

  2. Evening John, that’s exactly right.

    Well look, you had some good lines from a great man I get on with him very well. With Sir Mark. But the fact of the matter is look at the context of this, we have drilled 1000 wells in New Zealand’s history over the last 50 years. Actually with out to much regulation they have been very safe.

  3. ‘We have a Government and Opposition arguing over the pretence of a solution. How the fuck did we get to such an empty moment when what we need is urgency, vision and courage?’

    Actual solutions (assuming it’s not already too late) are totally unacceptable to the banks, corporations and opportunists that run the show. Anyway, our so-called leaders are largely scientifically and financially illiterate.

    In 1694 the Bank of England was established on the basis of a Fractional Reserve and charging interest on pieces of paper that were not backed by gold.

    In 1971 Nixon close the gold window, effectively severing the financial system from physical reality.

    The Ponzi scheme that has been operating for over 300 years was able to do so because there were always new lands to conquer and loot, always pristine jungles to cut down, always oceans to strip of fish, always innovative ways to extract fossil fuels from the Earth. Fracking and tar sands recovery are the last acts of desperation to keep the system going.

    Now the game is almost over, just like a game of Monopoly in which all the sites have been bought and most have been covered with houses and hotels. The players keep rolling the dice, hoping for a miracle that will not come.

    It’s not as though there were no warnings: a multitudes of warnings about overheating go back to the nineteenth century, and a multitude of warnings about resource depletion go back to the 1950s.

    Nearing the end of the line, one graph says it all

    https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/co2_800k.png

    And if you were to ask any politician what they intend to do about this dire predicament you will hear either silence or bullshit.

    Cowardice, blindness (wittingly ignorant) and betrayal are the bywords for the age we live in.

    We (our progeny) have probably got about 15 years before it turns to a living hell in NZ. It already is a living hell in other locations on this once-beautiful planet.

    By the way Martyn, there is much evidence that people are becoming less capable of rational thought (stupider) as time goes by, and that the peak of average intelligence occurred around the 1970s, along with the peak in quality of life.

    It can justifiably be agued that the peak of human resourcefulness and peak in quality of life occurred prior to the advent of agriculture, i.e. around 15,000 years ago. Certainly, New Zealanders have never been more dumbed-down and have never been so dependent on corporations for their existence.

    • When Greece first started losing its nine lives they where at 160% of the GDP.

      When you focus just on government debt which is a bit above 20% of the GDP you lose sight of the real number which includes private sector borrowing, totalled it’s around 160% of the GDP.

      Uni grades face a stark future. They will face a recession in there 20’s. When the entitled elect themselves the party accelerates and the brutal hang over is inevitable.

      Today the New Zealand that Uni grades have been dealt is not fair. There are many ways of dealing with an unfair society. One may shut off, drop out, runaway or get angry and fight.

      Or one can do what I didn’t and accept New Zealand for what it is. Work hard to exploit the opportunities it presents. And try to do it in as just a manner as possible. In detention at a high school they would make us move piles of wood endlessly, I’m not sure what they intended, all it taught me was that work, for hard works sack isn’t enough. Later when I’d walk the corridors of university and work life observing how students and apprentice trades people get thrown in the deep end I realised they’re just moving piles of wood and I doubted the value of a degree. And as a Uni students interests peak in a particular area or direction, those interests will bump up against a dark vortex namely student debt. It hangs large like a pile of wood moving from one work place to another, holding you back for hard work sacks.

      Fair play is long gone. Gone are the days where Uni students can sacrifice long term ambitions for short term gains. During the great refinancing of the last government it is also the gospel of liers and imbeciles.

      Of course when students sacrifice short term gains for long term benefits, consider button smashing long term outlooks over and over again.

      • If university helps people to acquire knowledge, process knowledge, think critically and problem solve, then that may be where its value lies.

        Thomas Aquinas – admittedly a long time ago – said the raison d’etre of the university was the intellect for the intellect’s sake.

        That may be a luxury society can no longer afford, but the cruel obtuseness of modern civic leaders and their questionable values gives meaning to Aquinas.

        Against the total bilge of characters like English and Key and Joyce, think e.g.Helen Kelly, Nicky Hager, and the difference which one person can make in societal terms, and support them like mad when we are lucky enough to find them.

  4. Nobody will dare take the combustion engine private motor vehicle and also not the combustion engine powered motor bikes of Kiwis.

    You will ask for electoral annihilation if you take serious enough measures, not simply through manipulation by big and not so big business, the people will not want to change, look outside, they are all driving and racing around as usual, that is unless they sit in a traffic jam somewhere.

    And as people invested in all this fossil fuel energy industry, they would lose their vested interest in it, it is like taking a drug off a heavy drug user and addict.

  5. 30 years ago James Hansen’s, of NASA, warned the US Congress that warming was underway and was due to the burning of fossil fuels (23rd June 1988).

    30 years later almost nothing has been done to prevent planetary meltdown and plenty has done to accelerate it. And high levels of denial of reality still prevail.

    https://apnews.com/59db44d726fa4a608987e674e6f13dd8

  6. A Leopard never changes its spots, we all know what he is trying to do they need a coalition partner, they have no friends.

    • Spot on, Michelle. I wouldn’t trust a single word that spews out of Bridges’ mouth. His sudden road to Damascus conversion doesn’t wash.

  7. The primary job of an MP, or indeed a political party, is to get themselves re-elected.
    There aren’t big numbers of votes in taking effective action to lower emissions or adapt to the impacts of global warming.
    Between the three parties Nat, Lab and Greens their policies on climate change (hate that term once Frank Luntz worked out that it feels less urgent to the populace than global warming) are:
    Nat – do just enough to comply with the lowest threshold of international obligations
    Lab – do just enough sound like we take this seriously
    Greens – do just enough to look like we’re pacifying our constituents and not upset our coalition partners

    Sad fact is that parliamentary democracy isn’t up to this challenge. Apart from the fact that it’s probably too late already to stop a lot of destruction, it’s time for a different approach.

    The Minister of Defence seems to get that we have a war on our hands – just not seeing that translate into much tangible just yet.

    https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/12/21/70663/defence-minister-plots-a-war-on-climate-change

  8. Does tarseal come in any colour other than black? Could we invent that?

    Do we insist that all roofs be painted pale grey or white, or a pastel?

    Could we make it easier for even the smallest budget to find dollars to invest in innovative companies so anyone can have ‘skin in the game’? Or does that ultra-stupid meanies floor of ‘nothing under $10 000 need apply for investing or term deposits or even a decent rate of return’ what we’re all happy with? (Credit unions and the Co-op are a bit different.)

    Is Shane Jones helping people to develop green walls and urban food production to reduce food miles and costs?

    Is Eugenie Sage lowering her lofty nose to talk with practical people with ideas and prototypes?

    Has Bridges got the nouse, clout, contacts and influence to get on board and striving the conservative folk with money and fast tracks to implementing change ?

    Because if those wee woofters aren’t doing what matters, using their reach and influence for good at all levels of society, let’s chuck them out and find people who can play the survive and thrive game a whole lot better.

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