Trump fiddles while Paris burns but is criticism cheap hypocrisy?
In short, Paris was a complete failure to begin with because it simply did not go anywhere near far enough. Trump pulling out is the least of our concerns.
Climate change
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Trumpwatch – What’s a few more nails in the planet’s coffin?
Trump’s First 100 Days can boast of several “achievements”. But not the variety that progressive-minded people – especially those concerned with global environmental problems and threats to peace – would welcome with a cheer.
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At a time of rising sea levels due to climate change, Phil O’Reilly wants to build an underwater stadium in Auckland?
Wanting to plonk an underwater waterfront stadium on the Auckland waterfront when our future will see more and more extreme weather events and a dramatic jump in sea levels looks like a recipe for a mass drowning.
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Welcome to 500 year floods – The only hopeful part that climate change will cause in NZ
Watch how quickly our gutless political class will suddenly change their tune on environmental solutions once the rich white volk start screaming.
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The whole world is burning
‘On the last day of the world / I would want to plant a tree’ wrote US Poet Laureate WS Merwin. Indeed, sometimes it feels like the whole world is burning, and to act in the spirit of hope is to plant a whole forest.
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Why are the words ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ not part of the Christchurch fire?
…the fire in Christchurch right now is our climate change future staring us in the face without any recognition from the present.
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Too Little, Too Late: Rachel Stewart On Climate Change
Neoliberalism has immobilised humanity in the manner of those parasitic wasps whose offspring excrete a chemical which fatally overpowers their host’s self-protective reflexes. Aware that we are being destroyed, we are nevertheless incapable of resisting our destroyers effectively.
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Rachel Stewart hits the climate change nail on the political head once again
We are entering a phase more dangerous and more damaging to us as a species than at any other time in our short history on this planet. Our exponential population growth coupled with mass inequality, desperation and a huge carbon foot print now out of control is a bleak reality we don’t wish to contend with because we are too busy enjoying the latest gadget, app, or selfie posting.
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Meanwhile the Planet melts – when will we admit global warming and climate change is here?
…the insane heat in Australia, the extreme weather events we are seeing here in NZ, the speeding up of melting glaciers and a North Pole facing hurricane winds spiking temperatures up in ways not witnessed before, this is global warming. This is what happens when you pump pollution into the environment without an sense of self control.
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Meanwhile the planet is melting
In my mind Green Socialism is the only way forward, and that will increasingly be seen as the only way forward once the impacts of out of control global warming take hold.