The scientists of the world came together this week and told us in solemn tones that we have a decade left to made urgent and radical change to the way we live or face catastrophic climate change.
How did the NZ Herald respond?
That’s right folks, the fucking Koru Lounge is full and the NZ Herald has spent the last 3 days focusing on the white rage that has exploded around it.
I say white rage, because only white people can be this angry over something this petty.
One woman wrote to the Herald today saying she felt “very embarrassed” for the person in front of her who was turned away from the lounge.
“Though, after entering, I wish I had been turned down. People had over-piled plates of food, it was packed, [and I] had to scramble for a seat … I had a glass of water and left,” the woman said.
How can you read that and not be moved? She was ’embarrassed’ a NZ woman (probably white) was ’embarrassed’??? How can this stand? She even wished, my God can you believe the words here, she wished SHE HAD BEEN TURNED DOWN AS WELL because people had food piled on their plates – READ THAT AGAIN!
FOOD
PILED
ON
FUCKING PLATES!
She even, and I can barely write the words, she even had to ‘scramble’ for a seat.
Where’s her social media hashtag for justice hu?
One woman – and again, I don’t know where I find the strength to write these words, such is the shock and horror I feel for the poor wee butterfly, one woman said, she felt like a second class citizen!!!!
An Air New Zealand Koru Club member says she felt like a ”second-class citizen” after being rejected at the airline’s Auckland International Airport premium lounge.
The woman, who was travelling with a teenage child, was told at the door she couldn’t get in and that she had to go to the airport’s own Strata Lounge.
SHE FLET LIKE A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN IN HER OWN FUCKING COUNTRY!!!
WHAT IS THIS? APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA? NAZI GERMANY? TRUMPS AMERICA?
The fact that the NZ Herald can spend three fucking days on this inane bullshit right after the global scientists of the planet explained to us that our civilisation will be mutilated beyond ability to adapt if we don’t make urgent changes now is the reason why we deserve to perish.
We are a petty, small people.
I was completely unable to work out what the outrage was. God knows Air NZ having 787’s with motors that explode at will is quite concerning, canning flights at random because it ain’t making enough money from that flight and tough shit to its customers, never ever been on time being pretty important and having the lamest safety video clips in the world would have been a bigger concern.
However, the Heralds annoyance is up there with Kate Hawkesby’s outrage over her children failing their driver licence tests.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12035435
I assumed that her disgust revolved silly bureaucrats failing them for nothings like responding to multiple social media conversations whilst simultaneously entering a motorway, points off for doing one’s makeup and hair using all car mirrors whilst cornering and not being allowed to drive on either side of the road as one sees fit in the Lamborghini (SUV of course).
There is travesty all around people and we need to feel for these good people!
yep, this country has been a neo lib based “tale of two Cities” for so long now that too many people have become desensitised to the fact
half the population seem to know their exact number of Fly Buys points, but little about anything of consequence; as never ending storms lash coastal properties and the sea level rises, they will probably wonder why the ATMs don’t work anymore…
It is longer BAU.
The Prime Minister, Cabinet, senior National party members need to get in a room and thrash out their response and action plan.
The Climate Change Commission is going down this path but it needs way more urgency.
Local Govt minister needs to be instructing Councils to put CC adaptation and mitigation strategies at the top of their agendas and into their Long Term Plans.
ALL public body decision-making needs to be made in the context of limiting GHG emissions and adapting to disrupted climate/weather.
“Normal” isn’t any more.
Whoops – It is NO longer BAU.
The gap between what the Herald focuses on and reality widens by the week, perhaps by the day.
We could talk about Hurricane Michael that has just slammed into Florida and caused mayhem, and which will probably drench regions of the Carolinas still recovering from Hurricane Florence.
However, since the topic is the sense of entitlement some people have and their desire for excessive amounts of rich foods.
‘Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climate-breakdown
Again I ask “When are we going to start talking about over-population”
Rather than waste time enriching Granny by clicking on the link how about submitting for final day to end oil exploration in NZ.
Submissions here
https://www.greens.org.nz/page/submission-guide-crown-minerals-petroleum-amendment-bill-0
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
Methinks many Koru Club members will be getting rather perturbed (shitting in their pants even) if the recent market turmoil continues .
‘Dow Jones slides more than 800 points in worst day for eight months
Sharp declines in tech stocks see Dow fall 831 points
Amazon loses 6.2% and Netflix gives back 8.4%’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/10/dow-jones-drops-800-points-stock-markets
#WhiteLivesMatter
Fuck yeah, this one time my glass of sav blanc was like, half a degree warm. Felt like a second class citizen, you know, the class that doesn’t get in to the koru lounge.
Business NZ avoids recognition of the extent of pollution, climate shift and social fabric breakdown.
The facts surrounding atmospheric damage done by airlines seriously point to a need to drastically reduce this form of travel, full stop.
Tourism dollars flow in aboard airlines, and tourists also use fossil fueled transport around NZ as well as put pressure on infrastructure to expand.
Tourism is a totally unnecessary and wasteful activity and damaging to our biosphere along with our long term economic interests.
No mention about the damage done by airlines nor moves needed to reduce airline travel.
Business NZ is totally irresponsible as is our economic model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviation
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