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We have been operating at a high level as a country for a century. How can we let that slip away by putting goons and deadheads and parseltongues in government? Can we save NZs. those that are still thinking. Everything is not going to fall into our laps just because we try to be clever. In fact as ducky unlucky cried ‘ The sky is falling’.
Have we heard about this:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2512/S00009/seed-bank-grows-with-climate-resilient-species.htm
Seed hunter Zane Webber from the Bioeconomy Science Institute recently collected over 300 seed samples from 45 sites across Albania and Serbia to add to the Margot Forde Genebank. A genebank is a facility that preserves and stores genetic material, such as seeds, tissues, eggs, sperm, or DNA from plants and animals.
It’s the first time that seeds from these regions have been added to the collection, which is based in Palmerston North. Securing these seeds has been years in the making, as establishing trust to enable international partnerships and agreements was required before collection began.
Home to more than 175,000 seed samples from more than 100 countries, the genebank is one of the most diverse collections of its kind and the largest forage genebank in the world. It plays a critical role in preserving plant genetic resources to support food security, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Forde
…Margot Forde researched the plant taxonomies of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang (China), and the Caucasus. She was a leading scientist in the field of seed conservation in grazing plants.[6] She and her husband both did scientific work regarding climate change, with Forde building a scientific record with hundreds of samples of grasses from across New Zealand that provided evidence of climate change impacts, while Bernard worked to create New Zealand’s climate laboratory in the early 1990s, attending an early international summit on the climate change in 1992 – the same year that Forde died from cancer…
Bernard Forde – https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/manawatu-standard/20181027/281487867340273
and I just mention two other people we should remember in connection with agriculture and environment.
1. Wendy Campbell-Purdie NZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Campbell-Purdie (1925-1985)
Campbell-Purdie formed the Bou Saada Trust to raise funds to support her “war against the Sahara.” Her successes inspired the Algerian government to plant a 12-meter-wide wall of trees from border-to-border across that country.[1]
Campbell-Purdie died in Athens, Greece, on 20 January 1985, aged 59.
TV – 1973? To Tell the Truth
(1631Bill Daniels
Rehabilitator of convicts through sports
and Wendy Campbell-Purdie
Director of Sahara Desert tree-planting project
https://www.ttttontheweb.com/tttt69s5guide.html)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_St._Barbe_Baker (1889-1982)
…St. Barbe Baker’s organisation, the Men of the Trees, eventually grew to be known as the International Tree Foundation. Ultimately, there were chapters in over 100 countries. By some estimates, organisations he founded or assisted have been responsible for planting at least 26 trillion trees, internationally.[12][13] St. Barbe Baker is grouped as one of three progenitors, along with Sir Robert McCarrison and Sir Albert Howard, of the organic agriculture movement.[14][15]
…In 1959 he moved to New Zealand and married Catriona Burnett[16] on 8 October 1959 at St. David’s Memorial Church in Cave. Her late father was the MP Thomas Burnett.[17] They lived at Mount Cook Station, her family’s sheep station, located on the east side of Lake Pukaki.[18]
In breaking news, one of the better Commissioners of Police Lil ‘ole NuZull that punches above its weight admits to a MAJOR fuckup on TVNZ’s Q+A.
Deputy Commissioners are running for the hills
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581099/crown-seeks-forfeiture-of-mongrel-mob-gang-pad-in-mataura-scene-of-torturous-beatings
This adds to bad news we already have about gangs. Better or worsen?
A rather long thinkpiece. But short snappy answers won’t serve us in these times. I think individuality would serve us a good turn in presenting detailed ponderings and discussing them in a group, rather than the team’ approach which is I think business- based.
This is a summary of what the western world and others were seeing and experiencing in just one year 1941.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/1941-the-second-world-war-in-photographs-a-global-conflict_john-christopher_campbell-mccutcheon/26323088/#edition=64451839&idiq=73529829
1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The war in Africa dominated the headlines, with huge swathes of the North African desert changing hands continually. At sea, Germany’s Bismarck sank HMS Hood, but was soon sunk herself, while Fortress Britain endured night after night of heavy Blitz and the horrors of the Luftwaffe’s incendiary bombs. The first turning point of the war came in June, with Operation Barbarossa – Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union – opening up a second front in the east. The next would not come till December, when the war moved from beyond its European and African front lines to become a truly global conflict. Japan awoke the sleeping giant that was the USA with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Simultaneous attacks on Hong Kong, Malaya, the Philippines and Indonesia saw huge parts of Asia firmly under Japanese control by the end of the year.
John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon tell the story of 1941 at war using many rare and often unpublished images, showing the rapidly changing nature of the conflict, as well as its impact on the everyday person.
Note: The Battle of Britain, 10 July – 31 October 1940. The Battle of Britain was fought above the skies of Britain, between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Had British and Allied aircrew not defeated the Luftwaffe, it is likely that Germany would have invaded Britain.
Battle of Britain Timeline: 10 July 1940 – 31 October 1940
Bentley Priory Museum
https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk › battle-of-britain-ti
(Note that some call it The Battle For Britain.)
Note:The Blitz (English: ‘flash’) was a bombing campaign by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy against the United Kingdom during the Second World War. It lasted for eight months, from 7 September, 1940 to 11 May, 1941.[4]
What Was The ‘Dowding System’?
Imperial War Museums https://www.iwm.org.uk › history › what-was-the-dowdi…
Diagram of the Dowding System, Britain’s air defence network that controlled both the flow of intelligence and the communication of orders during enemy raids.
The One: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Bentley Priory Museum https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk › the-one-air-chief…
At RAF Bentley Priory, ACM Dowding oversaw the development and implementation of the world’s first integrated system of air defence, which became known as ‘The ..
Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command | History of the …
RAF Museum https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk › online-exhibitions › c…
Air Chief Marshal Dowding is regarded as the architect of victory in the Battle of Britain. Dowding began his military career in the artillery.
but…
The “Big Wing” Controversy and Hugh Dowding’s Fall From …
Warfare History Network
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com › Articles
Political in-fighting, vanity and conspiracy led to the ousting of RAF Fighter Commands Hugh Dowding.
Note that Dowding was not well regarded by all and was given the boot quite soon on spurious grounds. So getting people in top positions who consider they are good decision makers suitable for the task, doesn’t ensure good outcomes and reasonable treatment of those succeeding in saving or advancing a country’s needs and future.
How can we get a better system without vicious infighting amongst leaders and shakers?
How is it that we keep on doing the same sort of deadly, poisonous things and haven’t changed our systems to better ones as soon as we could, perhaps giving approval of trial ones offering on a sort of tender system of running the system over 4 years and then there would be an appraisal and retendering. It would be the system we were voting for and votes would be those of educated people – in the art of doing things co-operatively for a large group, with parameters to spending, and ensuring basics were available, as well as improvements.
Our doings now, listed for one year, present time happenings, would look as bad I think. But beyond 1941, we have managed to upset the balance of the world and cope with climate change and rising sea levels. What the people trying to wake up the general populace are doing is mighty, and eventually some might might be needed. Might as well do something good while we wait for our lives or our world to end whichever .
comes first eh! I think ‘might’ is a good word to ponder on with varied, different meanings, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling ‘If’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/580945/former-kiribati-president-anote-tong-our-fate-has-already-been-decided
I’ve an idea. We can find space for foreigners from the USA and India to come here and bring their go-ahead look and expertise. This Kiribati politician seems to have more wisdom and expertise than our MPs. Let them come here, help us get rid of Parliament and replace it with a cohesive multi-cultural one.
I think Maori would agree to that rather than becoming servants to the swollen rich in a servile country as at present. And as for Pakeha, we have had our time in the sun, and the ones in Wellington are prepared to drop both Pakeha and Maori in the suds. I am sure that if we want a vital country and new blood we will get gallons of it from the Pacific Islanders. We could even make Manukau in south Auckland a separate entity from extensive Auckland city which is too big for its boots and not coping.