I’m not sure anyone is noticing, but the planet is melting.
The sheer magnitude and scale of the current heatwaves enveloping the Northern Hemisphere alongside breaking research suggesting the Atlantic Current could shut down before the end of this decade causing never before seen climate disruption is a tad concerning because we all like living on Planet Earth, and for vast swathes of our species, their homes will soon be failed state hellscapes, scorched from the face of the earth with the furnace intensity of satans flaming trident.
Which is why it’s odd that National and Labour are simply promising ‘more-roads’, with some ‘more-roads’ plus a side order of ‘more-roads’.
This at a time when our economy is getting hit with collapsing Dairy prices as China starts completing their mega farm projects which are rapidly replacing their need for our milk powder.
So we have an economy dangerously built on a dairy industry (that was always going to be replaced by Chinese mega farms), a speculative housing market (where we pretend to get rich from selling each other houses) and a mass transit infrastructure plan minus the mass transit, minus a plan and minus any climate change reality.
I blame Seven Sharp and The Project for making us all this dumb.
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I think the decile 10 alumni spell it ‘klimate’
As Luxon is proving you can be from a school at the other end of the decile spectrum and still be an idiot.
Hehe! He’s actually (and sadly) following quite a few like that. Seems to be the National party’s ‘specialty’…
You shouldn’t be criticizing your incoming PM like that!
LOL
Agree he will be the next PM. That’s depressing. Not Judith Collins being PM depressing but depressing none the less.
So the planet isn’t well and all our nostrums are made of chemicals that are sucked out of one place to be pumped into another! Sounds like a losing scheme to me. Then comes the age old question – should you tell someone that they are dying? Isn’t it better some ask, that the person should live out their life in happy (even if uncomfortable) ignorance? This is a serious question – what do you think?
Are you asking for consideration of what is more benevolent in reality, truth or illusion? it’s an interesting question. Probably both are valuable at various times. Maybe we can become more comfortable with the competing states of mind and find a balance. Ignorance on the other hand is often quite damaging and self-defeating.
Let’s start digging up minerals needed for Electric Car/truck s battery s then, like the Labour Government in Australia does. And reduce our cow numbers.
That way we save the environment and generate more revenue for the Government and create high paying jobs.
Our pathetic contribution to climate change by building a few more roads compared to developing countries like China and India is neither here nor there.
Our local climate change effects are generated off shore and there’s not a dam thing we can do about it.
Our end? Being laundered, or taken to the cleaners?
This is an idiom that means, when applied to the economy, if everyone takes in each other’s laundry for a living then nobody will make enough money to have their laundry washed, i.e. if all manufacturing jobs leave the country then how will people make money if the service industry can’t provide enough jobs for …11 Hūr 2016
to take in each other’s washing [laundry] – ProZ.com proz.com
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/05/washing/
They Eked Out a Precarious Livelihood by Taking in Each Other’s Washing
Quote Investigator: The earliest match located by QI appeared in the book “The Battle-Fields of 1866” within an essay by Edward Dicey about Heligoland, a small German archipelago in the North Sea near Germany and Denmark. Dicey compared the activities on Heligoland to those on the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:
China will not be able to grow all the high quality food that it desires. Not for 1.4 billion people.
They need food imports for around 20% of their food, particularly for higher quality food. So their market is going to be solidly available for decades to come.
Yes, prices will go up and down. You know what Martyn, welcome to farming, just as it has been for the last 150 years.
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