GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Where to start?
“Honesty is all i want from you”
So sang Bill Joel
If you look for truthfulness
You might as well be blind
It always seems to be so hard to find
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you
Ummm, isn’t it time to start being honest about the climate crisis?
By Martyn Bradbury -July 30, 2022
Where to start?
Maybe a good place to start at being honest about the climate crisis, would be at the Climate Change Ministry itself.
To start being honest about the climate crisis, The Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw needs to release, in full, all the 15 withheld OIO documents relating to the climate crisis, that the government will not let him release, or that he has only been allowed to release in heavily redacted form.
I realise that to release in full, all 15 of the withheld OIO documents on the climate crisis, would cost James Shaw his job as the climate change Minister.
But as I wrote in my open letter to James. Because the government will not let him achieve anything more, (and arguably not much so far), for the climate. I have recommended that James Shaw step down as Climate Change Minister and let the Labour government, (who in reality are the ones calling the shots in the Climate Change Ministry) find their own front person.
Despite Labour’s pre-election promise to be more transparent. See this report from Greenpeace and others, about Labour’s lack of transparency and secrecy, Most egregious of all, , is the government’s secrecy over the climate crisis.
“….Greenpeace spokesman Adam Currie said a review was “urgently required”. The organisation had been waiting a year for a single historical document, about the Rainbow Warrior bombing and Currie recently received an OIA response from Climate Change Minister James Shaw that refused or withheld 14 out of 15 documents and redacted all comment from the one document released.”
Dear James,
Pat O’Dea is a trade unionist and human rights activist.
Typical response in NZ throw the baby out with the bath water.
Stop blaming the wrong people.
How are Labour who are allowing in all the gold mining exploration in the south, got any clue?
Also the Greens included native trees in the carbon farming scheme, or we would have had endless pine trees.
Leave James to get on with the good work he is already doing!
Its pretty simple why Labour wont release the documents. Its because the documrnts will declare that
1 Half the dairy cows need to be killed
2 All the sheep need to be killed and the hill country planted or reverted to native bush as the big carbon sink
3 Ban the use of chemical fertilizers
4 Shut the coal burning Huntley Power Station
With those 4 intiatives in place NZ will comply with its varrious climate obligations / aggreements.
Great so what is the consequence ?
1 The nations export income is more than halved.
2 The dollar down to around 20cent $US
3 Imported goods inflation at 50% or higher
4 Electricity doubled in price with brown outs in Auckland. If not across the country
The result is a popular revolt. Exactly where Sri Lanka is right now and trending in the Netherlands.
While Jacinda and her team are not that bright they can at least see this.
James at this point sees incremental change to climate regulations as steps to success. However his party do not. Either way James is “stitched”
All over the western world governments are imposing constraints on agriculture. Banning nitrogenous fertilisers produced from oil and banning or constraining animal products. As many have pointed out here we are too many for the planet at the living standard we aspire to; and theres no sign of reducing the rate of increase. Until the advent of mRNA vaccines to “protect” us against a mild flue like new virus. Someone has been taking the overpopulation issue seriously. We currently have unprecedented fatality rates , only among the vaccinated as have all the highly vaccinated countries of the world.
D J S