Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says NZ is sending hypercritical messages by telling students not to join the climate change strike March 15th.
“Why is it that we as a culture don’t mind students not going to school when it’s an overseas holiday or a victory sports parade, but seem to have a problem when students go on strike to protest catastrophic climate change?”
“I urge every student to go on strike this March 15th to protest climate change and I urge every parent to support their child in this action.”
“As adults we are failing them and their future by not radically adapting to the realities of a dangerously warming planet. Greta Thunberg sums it up perfectly when she says, “What is the point of learning facts when the most important facts given by the finest scientists are ignored by our politicians?”
“Why indeed.”
Donna Awatere Huata
Māori Climate Commissioner
Agree with you whanaunga I will be supporting our Hutt Valley students on March 15th this is a very powerful lobbying group and our future leaders ands we are going to see a generational divide at our next election over this issue. Whoever addresses this issue best will get these votes.
Hosking is outraged – excellent.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12210248
I will march and expect other parents grand parents to march.
To hell with the small minded attempting to put barriers in the way for young folk to protest at the mess their parent and grandparent generation have allowed, and often demanded.
Those extremely selfish adults who trip overseas for holidays, drive large vehicles around when they could orgsanise their lives better and walk or cycle, buy up unnecessary stuff on a whim or to impress others, grey nomads who roam the highways for distraction when their grandkids or future generations will suffer the pain of consequence given to them by self centred often ignorant deniers with a thousand excuses.
There is no excuse for stuffing up the planet further with extremely damaging aircraft emissions for an OE or overseas tour or trip to see a game of event and doubling or quadrupling a personal GHG footprint.
NZ averages about 18 tons of GHG per capita per year. This is a shocking level of emmissions but doesn’t include air traffic. Sweden for example has a figure of less than 6 tons per capita.
There are more than 20 countries who have percapita GHG emmissions of less than 1 ton.
So don’t blame the kids nor criticise their alarm at your wasteful destruction of their world. They will rightfully turn against you.
Cancel that overseas trip and do something useful.
Don’t be a dangerous unthinking slob.
Joint the march and create some solidarity with the young and others who strive to actually make a better future if at all possible.
Lots of publicity before the 15th, I hope.
https://alarmistclaimresearch.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/amo-pdo-solar-and-arctic-v2.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/y6fx2a79
Rickoshay, I do hope you are aware that the warm water that has been pouring down the rivers of Siberia and Canada into the seas of the Arctic region has a low salt content and that the river water tends to form a layer on top of the salty sea water. Now since fresh water freezes at a higher temperature than salty water, the current Arctic ice cover is very different from that of 60 years ago, when submarines could hardly find any places to surface. Now much of the Arctic ice is thin and less than 3 years old. In other words, your linked article is designed to mislead (as is always the case with anything you link).
By the way, here is the latest update to atmospheric CO2:
March 9, 2019 413.55 ppm
March 9, 2018 409.94 ppm
So the meltdown of the planet will continue, as will the acidification of the oceans.
And another interesting fact (not mentioned in your article) is that melting of ice on Greenland (which has been happening at an unprecedented rate) does affect sea level, and potentially provides enough water for around 7 metres of global sea level rise.
Go the kids!! And Hosking and his zombie talkback rabble can go take a flying @#$%&/£€$#@!
Climate change is here. And so is the destruction of our oceans by pollution.
We hear about dirty dairying but the construction industry apparently likes to dump their waste in the ocean. Yep, just another price to pay (for someone else obviously and to ruin another pristine place, not effect the profiteers of course).
Time to reform the RMA to actually PROTECT the environment not consent to destroy it.
‘Appalled and disgusted’ – Great Barrier Island residents head to high court to stop dumping
Residents on Great Barrier Island are going to the High Court in a bid to stop millions of cubic metres of Auckland waste being dumped off their coast.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/384504/appalled-and-disgusted-great-barrier-island-residents-head-to-high-court-to-stop-dumping
Our goods now instead of ‘be a tidy Kiwi’ should now be replaced by ‘ please dispose unreasonably by dumping in someone elses back yard’, because that what big industry and local councils/their subcontractors do in NZ with waste.
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