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.
Climate change
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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.
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GUEST BLOG Comrade Dave Brownz – Climate Crash: The case for Survival Socialism
The recent news about the lack of ice in the Arctic has “shocked” mainstream climate scientists even if a few have been predicting such abrupt changes for years.
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We have a climate denier in the White House just as latest research shows Arctic sea ice collapse
We have a climate denier like Trump in the White House just as the latest research shows us that Arctic sea ice is collapsing when it should be building…
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Hague leaves the Greens more blue – Meanwhile….climate change happening far faster and far more dangerously than predicted
It does not surprise me that activists like Russell Norman and Kevin Hague quit Parliament, the vested political interests that can hide a mass water drinking poisoning are simply too embedded into our political infrastructure to be able to defeat inside the system, but like Norman, Hague leaves a massive hole in the Greens.
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National’s Wellington Mayoral candidate, Jo Coughlan – four lanes to nowhere
Right-wing mayoral candidate, and current Wellington City Councillor, Jo Coughlan, has ducked answering questions relating to her campaign policy advocating for a four-lane motorway from Transmission Gully to Wellington airport.