What we need to do post Gabrielle:
Doing nothing about climate change is no longer an option…
Failing to take decisive climate action could shrink economy by $4.4 billion – report
New Zealand’s economy could be $64 billion better off by 2050 if decisive climate action is taken, a new report by consulting firm Deloitte claims.
But failing to act could shrink the economy by $4.4 billion.
…it is not some theoretical thing happening at the end of the century.
It is here, it is now.
Cyclone Gabrielle has fundamentally changed the political debate in New Zealand.
Since Rogernomics, the neoliberal experiment has cut the NZ State back to the bone and the Right’s political agenda ever since has been to starve the State of revenue so there is no political expectation of redistribution.
The enormity of the storm damage and the ongoing threat that rapid climate change causes forces an entirely different perspective politically, economically and culturally.
This is now the age of consequences.
Business as usual simply can’t work.
Bernard Hickey argues that even if we agree to the neoliberal Wellington Consensus of 30% GDP debt, we could still borrow $60Billion and remain within that absurd ideological economic straight jacket so where should that $60billion be spent on resilience and adaptation?
We need future proofing ideas, we need a Ministry of Works to do it, we need big ideas and we need big new taxes to fund those big ideas, we need to build in self sufficiency, we need mitigation and adaptation.
Big ideas are needed, and Labour should use the MMP majority they still enjoy to force through some desperately needed regulation over the Forestry Industry, Trucking Industry, Telecommunications Industry, and the Industries who are emitting the gasses that are ultimately driving this catastrophic climate change.
We need to build resilience into a new infrastructure landscape that is urgently implemented with radical policies.
What we will actually do:
Tinker at the edges with no real plan while the Public Service panics and political class bicker amongst themselves to tell the population they’ve fucked up.
What that will lead to:
The disconnect between the enormity of what we face and the spineless response from our political leaders will finally cause a populist rupture on the Left that faces a legislative and political cascade of new regulations and frameworks driven by desperation and catastrophic climate events.
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We most certainly are not going to include the east coast in our review about the forestry industry and the ‘storage’ and ‘disposal’ of slash. Signed, Nash Stewart, Labour MP 2023. Must is a nice to have for some.
“What we will actually do:
Tinker at the edges with no real plan while the Public Service panics and political class bicker amongst themselves to tell the population they’ve fucked up.”
That’s about the size of it. Next year we’ll have a different government, but most of the underlying issues will remain.
America is about to default on its debt. Nobody is buying US Bonds. Oh, dear! They can’t print any more USD in this inflationary/stagflationary funk they’re in.
Their only option is to go to war. It’s in their history. But, they’re no good at that and their options are thin. Their opponents are, kicking their arses already.
1150b tonnes of emissions come from the northern hemisphere. Versus lil ole NZs 83m tonnes.
Which of these has the most likely chance of influencing weather patterns?
Which of these two
@ TMNFM,
Precisely. And while we’re at it, lets have some investigative journalism on who are those stoking the furnace of never-ending wars, where is the funding coming from and what is the ultimate purpose of turning countries in the Middle East into wastelands and fomenting wars with any other country that attempts to chart an independent course away from the foul and pest infested hegemony.
We need to tell China to stop ruining our efforts to single-handedly save the world at great economic costs tomorrow people. We need to be firm and we need to stomp our feet and tell those naughty people that if they don’t stop, then we’ll carry on polluting and contributing 0.000000000017 to climate change. There! That’ll show them!
Dude. It’s caused by consumption. The consumers from mainly the north of China drives the factories. If they reduced their consumption there by reduces manufacturing there by reduces emissions. Simple really.
But we only have 3 months to live according to Greta???
“A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
– Greta tweet 21 June 2018
So are we or are we not all going to die in a few months, because I need to make plans STAT!
Their statements are based on CC being exponential. 1: 2: 4: 8: 16: 32; 64 : 128. Day X frogspawn covers 50% of the pond. dayX+1 covers the whole pond. The IPCC thinks that even at linear growth we’re screwed by 2050 or later. Our hunter gatherer ice age brains simply cannot believe or comprehend this exponential fact. We assume tomorrow will be just like today.
Yes Greta of course, knows a helluva lot. She’s been on this planet a long time. She’s just a vessel for her parents and their agenda mates. It’s all very clever engineered…like MAFS.
source for the greta quote please bg
Crush the foreign owned fucker banks then send that $180.00 A SECOND! in the net profits, that’s really and actually our money, directly back to the flood plains in cash. And why not!? Can someone give me a reason why fucking not!?
RNZ
“Green Party wants immediate action on bank profits”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018881050/green-party-wants-immediate-action-on-bank-profits
And those fucking nine kiwi-as multi billionaires? How the FUCK did they manage to con us out of that vast amount of money? Nine of them! Billions!? They have many billions each! How!? That’s quite the hourly rate for what ever the fuck it is they do. Perhaps counting, fiddling, fondling then stacking the cash requires some serious labour on hand to fork lift it all into warehouses then they must cover it all in case pigeons shit on it. All piled up there, in mountains. Getting all dusty and spider webby. Do the billionaires go in there pissed and rub up against it all. Get their diddles out and rub them on the dough? Get all sticky and giggly? There must be gaps in the stacks. Do they poke their little diddles in the cash-cracks and think of mommy with wads of dosh shoved down her bra? There are people in deep shit and deeper mud and those bastards have billions of our well rubbed dollars stacked away for, now here’s a little irony for you, a rainy day.