Comrades, the Climate Crisis is happening far faster than feared…
World’s oceans, greenhouse gasses at highest levels in 800,000 years, climate report warns
Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
…the speed and extreme nature of the heatwaves and floods that are destroying the planet in real time are damaging the ability for the economy to function…
Cars. Batteries. Solar panels. Food. Global shortages and soaring prices are almost certain as China’s seemingly never-ending heatwave sears on.
It’s the most extreme heat event ever recorded in world history. For more than 70 days, the intense heat has blasted China’s population, factories and fields. Lakes and rivers have dried up. Crops have been killed. Factories have been closed.
More than 900 million people across 17 Chinese provinces are subjected to record-breaking conditions. From Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the east, temperatures have been topping 40C.
…and remember, this only gets worse and worse and worse.
We aren’t doing anything meaningful on climate change, each country passes the buck to the next country, and the future is actually far more dangerous than we are currently anticipating…
‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis
In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen write that society needs to be better prepared for an inevitable collapse
…the scale of the geopolitical shockwaves coming our way will be enormous…
Increasingly dysfunctional society and climate catastrophe leading humanity to ‘cliff edge’
Spiralling wealth inequality is leading to dysfunctional societies unable to cope with existential threats such as the climate crisis, experts have warned.
A two-year research project examining different future scenarios indicates that at present, societies around the world are at growing risk of “extreme political destabilisation”, with declines in public trust, while the climate crisis intensifies.
…I’ve been following the IPCC reports on climate change from the beginning, and the criticism made against the IPCC was that due to its strict need for only unilaterally agreed science to make the official report, it was always underplaying the urgency and severity of the climate crisis.
There was always a section in each report where the science was presented that wasn’t universally accepted but included to show the reach and scope of debate.
Increasingly over the years, the worst case scenarios in the IPCC are playing out in real time.
The scientists were wrong, but only in their optimism.
You understand that each year that passes now will get worse or remain as starkly bad as they are now right?
You get that it doesn’t go back to normal after this right?
The extreme weather will get worse and worse.
More extreme than these extremes now.
Consider this baseline extreme normal now.
The radical adaptation required to get us ready for what’s coming will splinter the political spectrum whether we like it or not.
Why shouldn’t we have our own basic pharmaceutical industry?
Engineering industry?
Industrial industry?
Free Market Globalisation is dead, hyper regionalism is here. Supply chains in China are no longer safe and must be brought back to friendly supply chains which imports more inflation.
Radical adaptation and communal community resourcing alongside a Big State approach to lynchpin infrastructure for basic self-reliance as an Island country facing enormous economic shockwaves is the only means to build the muscle mass to respond to the ever intensifying external disruption of late stage capitalism.
The need to increase military spending to 3% alongside the new costs for this infrastructure must be funded via new taxes aimed at corporations and banks.
Drones are going toe an essential part of that defence infrastructure…
Could NZ plug into Australian ‘drone wall’ to keep China at bay?
…it’s not just keeping China at bay, we also need to keep bloody America away as well!
A financial transaction tax and windfall profit tax would take the yoke of taxation off working people and place it upon the shoulders of the wealthy.
National and ACT see mass immigration as a means to create fake growth at a time when we should be focused on de-growth.
Climate Crisis is here and adaptation is now.
We need to start rethinking Isolationism as a strength and Think Big as Economic Sovereignty.
The geopolitical shock waves are only getting more intense.
If you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is the solution, you are the problem.
Post growth capitalism with true sustainability calls for Autarky on a burning planet that can’t take anymore globalism.
The tyranny of distance has always been our malaise but on a burning planet of constant external shocks the Shire of NZ is looking very good right now.
‘Build that wall’ will soon become ‘defend that moat’.
In 1980, the time between billion dollar climate destruction events was 3 months.
It’s now 18 days.
There is a point where the next destructive weather event strikes before you can rebuild from the last one.
Fortress Aotearoa is coming whether we want it or not.
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“Supply chains in China are no longer safe and must be brought back to friendly supply chains which imports more inflation.”
Only true if we continue to be ruled by scum like Hipkins and Luxon who support the race war against the Chinese people and their people’s government.
We ain’t buying military gear from china just rule that out but we can train together.
Gr8 article Martyn, but please regularly shake us up so the dumb-assed out there finally wake up to this reality! This inane, feeble-minded CoC will never acknowledge what is clear to anyone with even only half a brain. I guess when their beach-front properties are destroyed they will expect instant action and recompence, but sadly it will be too late! The saying – ‘You reap what you sow’, still doesn’t resonate with so many with their heads in the sand. Still trying to work out whether the RW enablers are simply greedy or stupid but I imagine both. So sad about the mess we have left for our descendants! NZ has the ability to build its own drones to monitor our coastline, forests etc. so Left, let’s start the process now along with the industries Martyn has listed, and be prepared! Let the fools suffer from their ineptitude. Climate is our ‘major problem’ and needs immediate action. No time to waste!
There is a calculation for the rate that Earth naturally replenishes annually. I cannot remember what it fully covers except year-on-year now us Earthlings have been consuming the following years resources before it had naturally caught up on the previous year.
So what it has available for 2026, we are already well into consuming.
“The need to increase military spending to 3% alongside the new costs for this infrastructure must be funded via new taxes aimed at corporations and banks.” Martyn Bradbury
New taxes aimed at corporations and banks to pay for better health care and environmental protection, and end poverty in this country, that’s the kind of defence spending we need.
No amount of military spending will defend New Zealanders, only neutrality will do that..
No Swiss soldiers died in combat in WW2. Neutral Switzerland suffered 100 civilians killed when allied bombers mistakenly strayed into Swiss airspace, in what was called, at the time, “navigational error”.
Neutral Republic of Ireland suffered the same amount of Irish citizens killed when Nazi bombers mistakenly dropped their bombs on Dublin instead of Belfast, also ascribed to “navigational error”
It would take a lot of navigational error to mistakenly bomb New Zealand
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating says Australians are painting a huge bullseye on themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJI000zPCY
We need to take Keating’s words to heart.
(In WW1 Switzerland suffered no casualties at all. Let’s be like Switzerland.)
Just because Switzerland is neutral don’t make them anti defence. Even the Swiss is raising defence spending inline with world events. https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/15/switzerland-to-radically-boost-defence-spending-as-security-threats-increase#:~:text=The%20Swiss%20military%20plans%20to,over%20the%20next%20three%20years.
You constantly claim New Zealand can not defend itself militarily and go on about Swiss neutrality is the only way to defend NZ and you don’t even know how it works. You would rather allow 100 civilians die than to fund NZDF at 3% are you insane?
And by the way government spending is going to rise and defence is getting it’s fair share no one in the right mind would cut health and education to fund defence spending you looney lefty.
I mean, there were no mistakes there. The butcher Churchill loved to murder the Irish and Swiss.
“The butcher Churchill loved to murder the Irish and Swiss.” Mohammed Khan
Are you a Nazi as well as a Ruscist?
As monstrous as Churchill’s crimes were, and they were montrous and numerous, it was the Nazis that bombed neutral Ireland, allegedly mistakenly.
Trying to ascribe the crimes of the Nazis to Churchill, is about as one eyed as ascribing the crimes of Putin to the US.
Something you tend to do, and weirdly something some Irish did as well, they hated the British imperialists that much that they supported Hitler.
My father who grew up in Ireland remembers well the Irish ‘Blue Shirts’ the Irish fascists.
Not quite as analogous to the Blackshirts in the UK, who supported British imperialism.
My father and the community he grew up in despised the Blue Shirts, much as I despise the supporters of Russian imperialism.
Churchill prefered scotch over Irish whisky
Hilarious that you’re claiming to be Irish while endorsing the monster Churchill, who sent the Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920, and plotted to invade the Republic until the cretins in power at the time completely suppressed the heroes of the IRA fighting to liberate all of Ireland.