Cruise Ship protests must violently expand
Cruise vs climate: ‘Intimidating’ protests prompt safety fears
The cruise industry claims climate activists are becoming increasingly intimidating, with management plans now in place at Auckland’s downtown port amid fears someone could get hurt. Amelia Wade reports.
These dirty filthy bloated swine palaces must be destroyed!
They are toxic environmental floating hazards that lock off our public space for these corporations.
Princes Wharf and Queens Wharf are supposed to be open for Aucklanders but when Cruise ships are in Port those Wharfs are closed off to the Public – there are about 100 cruise ships visiting Auckland each year – that’s 100 days Aucklanders can’t use their waterfront – how many bloated swine palaces are too many bloated swine palaces?
These bloated swine palaces are the perfect example of unsustainable economic growth.
Put aside their astronomical pollution, sure, they make money for the Port, there are replenishment dollars to be had, but the tourists flood downtown Auckland pushing up the store rentals at the bottom of Queen street for expensive international brand’s that locals don’t buy while the homeless sit outside the Dior and Gucci stores begging.
Isn’t that juxtaposition of beggars and luxury brands the very wrong type of Auckland we have built?
The never ending mass tourism is already causing Auckland infrastructure to groan and is turning most of our sight seeing spots around the country into never ending queues and open long drops.
Before Covid In 2018, Auckland Airport received 2.72million tourists, that’s almost 3 times Aucklands entire population gridlocking that roading network.
I’m glad the Tourism Tax has been increased to $100 but I question if that is just revenue gouging or will the money be sunk into local infrastructure to handle this level of hyper tourism.
On a planet rapidly warming, we should be looking to limit tourism, not expand them!
I don’t think people understand the terrible place we are with climate change now…
Long stories short, here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:
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- The month of August was 1.49˚C warmer than pre-industrial levels, tying with 2023 for the warmest August ever, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate dataset. This is despite the absence of El Niño’s heat amplifying effects that were present last year.
- The Government’s National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) plans on executing a U-turn, taking us back in time to a car-dependent past, according to University of Auckland academic Timothy Welch in The Conversation. The worst thing, he suggests, is that most of the $8 billion in planned spending will go on planning, design and preparatory work, rather than actual construction.
- Debate about whether ‘climate intellectuals’ should focus on disinformation and misinformation underestimates the political versus the technical obstacles to decarbonisation, according Aaron Regunbergin the Jacobin. The critique was ‘story of the week’ on the website skepticalscience.com, who argue that systematic climate mitigation is an inherently political matter.
- The population effects of climate displacement are causing increasing concern in the US. “When multiple cataclysmic disasters strike one region in quick succession, climate change-driven phenomena called “compounding events,” they create overlapping ripples of displacement, making the movement that much harder to track. If it was tracked in real time, local officials would see disturbing trends,” according to this gnarly tale in The Grist.
- Glaciologists are in a race to collect ancient virus specimens from fast-melting glaciers after finding 1,700 mostly new-to-science ones in Tibet. Meanwhile other scientists are coming up with massive geo-engineering plans to try to slow the collapse of the so-called Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica.
- The chart of the week is putting the terrors into gulf coast communities in the US.
…THAT’S JUST ONE WEEK!!!
Here’s the chart…
…no one is talking about what this means.
Fucking Cruise Ships are making this worse!
Hyper tourism is making this worse!
We are not preparing for the massive adaptation politically, socially, economically that is required to deal with what is rushing our way!
Violently protesting these bloated swine palaces is the least we can do.
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The fact is most people just want to get on with their life the best way they know how . My local paper the Press has many pages of advertising based on getting people,e to travel either by land sea or air .Boeing has 5000 planes on order so the powers that be must be relying on plenty of custo ers wanting to fly.
Covid showed us how much of an economical disaster stopping travel caused. Stopping cruises would effect the Pacific Islands terribly.
Things will have to get a lot worse before we stop this is human nature I am afraid to say.
How much have they, are they, and will continue to cost taxpayers in biosecurity issues? There are invasive species already here we will never eradicate brought by cruise ships. They should fuck off. We don’t need them, don’t want them.