A river runs through it: Nelson surveys damage and the clean-up ahead
Residents of Nelson are cleaning up and counting the cost of flood damage across the region, while authorities work to fix roads, clear slips and rebuild infrastructure.
The problem for climate deniers and climate minimisers is that the planet is super heating in front of our eyes and the collective extreme events are playing out in front of our eyes.
This current flooding hitting us is now is the extreme events warned about tomorrow occurring now.
This is now a time of consequences.
Look at how the heat wave is shutting down the Chinese economy and causing supply chains to rupture again…
China’s heatwave could have a knock-on effect on its economy, says economist
- China is caught in the grip of a devastating heatwave that could have a serious impact on its economy, according to a chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China.
- The heatwave “is a quite dire situation,” Dan Wang told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday, adding it probably could last for the next “two to three months easily.”
- “It will affect those big energy intensive industries and it will have[a] knock-on effect throughout the economy and even to the global supply chain,” she said.
…these future crises are happening now…
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China’s Heat Wave, America’s Future |
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South Asia in spring, Europe in early summer, the Midwestern US in July and now China: A dangerous heat wave—accompanied by a drought—has caused “rolling blackouts and factory shutdowns,” affected livestock, and forced people to cope however they can in the world’s second-largest economy, as The New York Times details. |
…at some point we are going to need to acknowledge the existential threat in front of us.
The house we are in is burning, and yet our most pressing issue this week was a rogue MP manipulating the culture of victimhood and fragile snowflake bigots who lost their shit at a Chocolate wrapper in Māori!
The weather events occurring right now are so outside the norm and are happening far faster than Scientists had feared.
We are in danger and are ill prepared for the reality of that danger.
Globalisation is dead, isolationism is the new black and Fortress Aotearoa is inevitable.
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The scientists predictions have been confirmed. More frequent storms and droughts. Natural or human caused?
It is good if it is human caused then humans can do something about it. If just natural, nothing can be done.
People can make changes as it is human caused. It is a moral dilemma. Peoples moral position and action will dampen the approach to climate chaos.
“It is good if it is human caused then humans can do something about it.”
No they cant. Its the lag in the earth climate system sensitivity + Fossil Fuel capture of politics and science. We are crispy creatures.
I think we’ll all agree, Dr Sharma’s feelings trump these silly floods.
I know he thinks so!
Then please bring on the Pa Aotearoa party, so we have some party worth voting for.
I’ll happy help out in the Kerikeri area with what needs doing.
Climate Disaster is yet another reason why the State and Local Councils should play a major role in provision of sustainable public houses, apartments, emergency housing & tiny houses for individual homeless.
The capitalist model of home ownership, involving for profit developers, bent building suppliers, thumping great mortgages, and individual insurance, is no longer sustainable for much of the population that do have property, let alone those paying extortionate rents for dumps.
Various Reports have been done on local areas that should not be built on, should be retrenched, or abandoned. But none of the Parliamentary Parties or Local Govt. or Insurance companies have had the guts to widely announce the findings, or who will pay compensation if any.
Insurance on coastal, subsidence ridden and flood plain dwellings, is set to go ballistic and become totally unaffordable for many. Hard decisions have to made from now–not in 20years time.
Local councils can’t get water right, thus 3 waters.
Probably looking at mass Global famine b4 2030. We are nearly there this year with mega heat waves and mega droughts across Europe, China and USA. Near simultaneous collapse of bread baskets coming one year soon.
Northern Hemisphere hit hard bc what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.
NZ can do nothing about climate change. Us, like Tonga can do sweet FA. Don’t kid yourselves that we are important enough to matter cos we don’t.
The dilemma is I want to count and be able to count on ten fingers to other people who count on me, and vice versa.
So Dilema as the rest of the developed world moves on over the next decades what are you suggesting? We don’t covert to greener sources for cars etc as the rest of the developed world does? Gee that will work out well.
Fortress Aotearoa will last as long as social collapse takes to unfold. We have already started. Slowly at first but quickly in the end.
Fortress Aotearoa will last as long as social collapse takes to unfold. We have already started. Slowly at first but quickly in the end.
Maori lived on beaches and coastal strips till the great tsunamis killed up to 70% of their population
They then moved to hill top fortresses
People forget history
Matthew 7:24-27 NIV – The Wise and Foolish Builders
But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand
NZ still has a lot of habitable land, its just not close to our harbours or beaches
boo hoo you’ll have to live somewhere boring like Grey Lynn
If/when a big tsunami hits the east coast and wipes out hundreds of thousands of people
others will probably move back there in the following years
I blame society
Well Hell, flooding on this scale happened on a regular basis on the West Coast for the last century and wider New Zealand were haooy to ignore it.
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