Climate activism will require mass civil disobedience
Climate activist argues forged email cancelling petroleum conference was for ‘satirical purpose’
A Dunedin climate activist allegedly forged a letter to delegates claiming that a petroleum conference had been cancelled.
A jury trial for environmental activist Rosemary Anne Penwarden began in the Dunedin District Court on Monday morning, before Judge Michael Turner.
The 64-year-old faces two forgery-related charges: making a false document and using a false document, with the latter carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years’ jail.
Both charges arose out of a postponement letter for the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (Pepanz) conference in September 2019.
These are nice white middle class protesters who won’t get 14 years for blocking a motorway.
As the speed of climate change hits us, as the true cost of our denial is realised – protestors will get angrier and angrier at the inaction.
Sometimes the machine is so hateful and evil you have to throw yourself onto the gears to stop it.
I salute the Wellington Protestors for their real courage.
Many more like them will be needed before this country is awake to the existential threat that is climate change caused by mad made pollution.
The new report on sea warming is so fucking grim and I think pretending shit is going to get better if we recycle, ride a bike and become carbon neutral by 2050 is nothing more than vacant optimism.
I just don’t think the vast majority of Kiwis have any comprehension yet just how bad things are going to get from a purely scientific point of view.
Here is the data…
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…and National’s response to that data is to leave the agricultural sector, their political mates, out of paying for their pollution until 2030!
This is not a serious climate change policy, this is pure capitulation to Corporate Farmers.
National, ACT and Federated Farmers have always been climate deniers, they refuse to believe the party is over and they still want a never ending gravy train of monopolies and never ending love from National!
The Agricultural Right have managed to postpone any emissions scheme for 20 years and if National win this year they will add another 5 years to that!
To exemplify this disconnect between what is about to envelope us and our current state of ignorance is this rolling climate change protest action in Wellington that has interfered with traffic.
Those complaining about this protest style better get used to it because the catastrophic and extreme climate we are about to witness will push protestors into more and more radical action.
The Sea warming report is so grim because it is now apparent the warming oceans will melt the frozen methane on the ocean floor causing enormous belches of methane that once triggered cascade pushing global temperatures up by 10 degrees in the space of a decade which would melt all the Greenland ice sheet, which in turn would pump fresh water into the Labrador Sea which in turn would shut down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation off and plunge the Northern Hemisphere into an ice age.
It’s all the worst parts of Armageddon, but under water.
The rolling protest action that has been happening in Wellington this year is just the beginning of the response to our refusal to adapt to climate change and the protests are only going to get more and more disruptive because ever passing week there are more and more extreme climate events.
One of the reasons why your food inflation is blowing out is because of mass droughts and mass flooding events interrupting the agricultural calendar!
It’s impacting our food prices right now!
That’s why the hate speech laws and the new police surveillance powers that the woke are screaming for will be immediately used on environmentalists you clowns!
The climate catastrophe is only going to get more extreme as the years go by, our refusal and denial to do anything meaningful to respond to that reality will drive the protest movement towards more disruptive actions, disruption that the State will immediately use the very powers the woke are demanding they be given.
The woke believe the new powers they are demanding for the State will be used to arrest the racists, transphobes and sexists.
The reality is the State will use them against those who threaten capitalism.
There is an inevitability to Fortress Aotearoa.
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Just as pointless as recycling, riding a bike or becoming carbon neutral by 2050 is anything New Zealand can do to meaningfully slow the global catastrophies coming our way.
Blocking motorways in Wellington is not going to stop the Chinese, the Indians, the Bangladeshis or any of the other developing industrializing nations from propelling their peoples to prosperity on the back of cheap, plentiful coal and gas.
New Zealand could sink into the ocean tomorrow and it would make no difference.
There are just too many corporate vested interests tied to global politicians to turn this around.
The only way ironically is a one world militarised green government.
Sorry but its over.
Oh, the irony indeed, but such a government or system of governance may not be that far off if the plans of the elitist think-tanks have anything to em.
That is why there won’t be a mass movement purely around pollution in any country. Instead the popular revolt will be against collapsing living standards in Europe, the U.S. and many other places.
Martyn world of desensitizing the obedience of law.
Of course the main game is to tackle the corporates and that is being done all the time, but not by a mass movement, it is more the pointy end of the spear activists. But that will change, think about it, 400 Aucklanders with shagged houses, in what were assumed by the occupants to be in the safe enough ’burbs. Ultimately down to Climate Disaster. And many out at the West Coast beaches, and the Gabrielle fallout around the country which as Martyn mentions has affected food supply and prices as well as being genuine regional disasters.
There is an El Niño building. To quote even the NZ Herald…
–Impacts of El Niño:
Of course, major events related to El Niño have serious social and economic impacts. Droughts, floods, heatwaves and other changes can severely disrupt agriculture, fisheries, health, energy demand and air quality (mainly from wildfires).
Research shows El Niño “persistently reduces country-level economic growth”, with damage now estimated in the trillions of US dollars.
Globally, El Niño is the largest cause of droughts; they are more intense, set in quicker and increase the risk of wildfires, especially in Australia, Indonesia and Brazil. In the weak 2019-20 El Niño, smoke from fires in eastern Australia affected the southern hemisphere to the extent that it blocked the sun and may have exacerbated the subsequent La Niña conditions.
But micro action is to be encouraged regardless–eating more plant based, learn how to look after yourself and friends/family when the shit goes down, all good stuff–live the change you want to see.
Of course the filthy industrial farmers (I know some modern thinking smaller operators) with their animal cruelty and exploitation–discarded bobby calves, winter grazing (animals kept in a mud slurry), overloading of nitrogen inputs which have wrecked so many waterways, hogging aquifers for irrigation–will never take a holistic view–until they are forced to.
As public understanding builds direct action will have to include:
• Blockade Fertiliser warehouses and production–Balance etc. and individual local Fert spreaders
• Blockade wharves and Petrol stations on a strategic basis
• Name and shame the Corporates with mass media channel campaigns, expose Green Washing
• Campaign for heavily subsidised solar panels and rain water collection tanks for all dwellings as practicable
• A public works and infrastructure department, including waste collection and recycling to be in public ownership
• Electricity generation and supply returned to public ownership
you know the list by now…
I have sound reasons to believe that this world is coming to a fiery end & that there is a rescue plan. A book written about 2500 years ago tells us that there will be a time of trouble such as never was just before that end while also saying that we can be delivered.
You are free to decide what you believe & I fully support actions that protect our environment (it is logical that since we have laws to enable society to function the environment will have activities that either preserve or destroy its ability to sustain us) the selfishness that mostly rules in people does not give me any hope that we will be able to save ourself from the coming destruction.
Written 2500 years ago? Lost in translation? What language(s) was it written in, when was it translated and can the translations be trusted as true and accurate account?
Language has a tendency to be ideological motivated, used to prop up the position and the intentions of powerful players. Translation offers additional challenges.
Can I suggest the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky – far more engaging fiction and a lot closer to reality -lol-
we’re only one wet bulb event away from planes being shot from the sky.
Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
Good Post- usual rightwing moronic comments.
What? Doesn’t the usual “we can’t possibly do anything about it, because we’re so little” argument flick your switch?