Aotearoa is among the top countries in the world for self sufficiency in the event of war, natural disaster or Trump’s tariffs, says a new international scientific study, which hints we are also the safest in the world against an invasion, as the Land of the Long White Cloud has disappeared from the world map.
The research, carried out by online publication Nature Food and published this month, analyses domestic food production of 186 countries, to measure how they are able to feed all citizens without relying on foreign imports.
The report says over a third of all countries cannot meet self-sufficiency for more than two of the seven essential food groups.
Not our little country – New Zealand is fully self-sufficient in five out of the seven food groups examined and ranks “among the top-performing countries in this regard”, Jonas Stehl from the Department of Economics, University of Goettingen in Germany told Stuff.
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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Antarctica is melting fast too. The West Antarctic ice sheet is going and will with its glaciers raise eventually sea level 3-5 metres! ” UC Irvine professor Eric Rignot is featured in this Emmy-winning HBO series VICE where he discusses his findings of Antarctica’s melting ice sheets and the global impact of sea level rise. He told VICE founder and producer Shane Smith that glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amudsen Sea have “passed the point of no return” and their disappearance could trigger the collapse of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, which could raise global sea levels by up to five meters – or 15 feet. Such an event could severely submerge the world’s heavily populated coastal areas, and force us to redraw the world map as we know it. ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plkkfEY9cGs&t=2s
@wrenyere9393
3 years ago
This is difficult to accept, but very necessary to see and accept. We need immediate action to respond to this inevitable catastrophe. There is nothing we can do to prevent it, but we should at least be mobilizing to move coastal communities away from danger! People’s lives are in imminent danger, but even getting the right people to acknowledge that, let alone do anything about it, seems impossible. There is so much more that should be happening right now to respond to this, but someone like me can’t make the money needed to undertake this appear out of thin air, and the people that do have the kind of money necessary would rather spend it on endless wars and lining their own coffers. Do they not realize that all the money in the world won’t matter when we have 3+ meters of sea level rise?
We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?
It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us.
Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU
@mralekito
2 years ago (edited)
As your friend Jason Box says, “it hasn’t really sunk in, not even in the science community, that’s we’ve effectively lost the ice sheets. It’s only a matter of time before we see many meters of sea level rise and the world has to prepare for the catastrophe of the loss of coastlines and a retreat inland. Yet we’re acting like we can negotiate our way out of this”.
@alanj9978
2 years ago
Exactly. The last time earth was over 400 ppm, temperatures were 3 degrees higher and sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than today. Baseline expectations should be that we return to that state, even if we stopped emissions immediately.
@gregelliott1948
2 years ago (edited)
Sea level rise is the least of our worries when it comes to climate change (a symptom of human biological overshoot).
@lucemiserlohn
2 years ago
Our situation is so maddening. First of all, the vast majority of people, even those that should know better, still act like we can somehow avert this. Or negotiate our way out of this with nature. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Second, while everybody pretends that this can and will have a nice, neat and good outcome, nobody is preparing for the world we will be living in. Nobody thinks about ways to adapt to a new reality, how to accomodate millions of displaced people, how to feed ourselves when we lose lots of fertile land and lose yield on the remaining land due to the other effects of climate change. Nobody prepares for the wars that will result out of this catastrophe, because sadly, there will be wars, and they’ll make our World Wars look like child’s play in scale and atrocities. Nobody is making plans to move entire cities out of uninhabitable zones.
There is so much work to do if we as a species want to survive the coming centuries, especially the one we’re in. And yet we’re doing nothing at all.
um, sorry to disappoint you but the ice sheet has been gaining mass over the past decade. nasa quietly corrected the data last year after years of manipulation to suit the cc doom narrative.
We will all starve because we are exporting every bit of meat we grow and importing lower quality to feed our selves ,ripping out fruit trees asap and next the whole canning of food will be shut down .We are becoming dependant on imports of everything as we keep closing manufacturing as we continue the race to the bottom that we have been on for decades driven by greed and low incomes for the workers .The speed is gathering momentum every year as more and more industries are closed and cheap shit from elsewhere floods in to fill landfills next week .A friend was telling me this week that the aluminum extrusions he uses were NZ made but are now imported from China along with a mountain of packaging and inferior quality that requires rework once landed .False economy .
This RNZ piece must go in here. It’s got a map and everything. All the things that we don’t want to know,
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583288/most-significant-heatwave-in-six-years-brings-temperatures-in-australia-above-45c
Dare you to read it. Go on fellow suckers. This is your life.
Why can’t people see how critical Climate conditions already are, not just something waiting to happen – it’s already happening around the world and in NZ. I guess if some folk really believe they can survive because they are wealthy then they are in for a really rude shock. No amount of money will save you or your family if you are in the wrong place when each event happens. So take heed – NZ is so lucky to be placed where it is – at least we get a fighting chance. NOW IS THE TIME to get organised; build our own pharma, engineering, industrial industries, STOP mining, use solar, wind, water energy, build drones to monitor our coastline etc. and stop the stupidity and ignorance. We need to fight this ‘together not separately’. You must surely see this? Your wealth will not save you.
Stop mining – lol – where will all this infrastructure come from? icebergs floating past?
we won’t need climate change to become a Fortress under siege – a few closed off sea lanes and ripped up undersea cables will do it
if we don’t cook, we will most certainly freeze.