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The War on News is a weekly attempt to make sense of a world that increasingly feels unmoored from reality….
climate crisis
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Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest
Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland on Saturday across the Viaduct to the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior — and met a display of solidarity.
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Helen Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds.
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Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US
From our Asia Pacific Report: In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tested by the United States, Greenpeace is calling on Washington to comply with demands by the Marshall Islands for nuclear justice.
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MEDIAWATCH: Disinformation and climate crisis, governance, training feature in PJR
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
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2022 – Pacific political upheavals eclipse Tongan volcano
The Pacific year started with a ferocious eruption and global tsunami in Tonga, but by the year’s end several political upheavals had also shaken the region with a vengeance. A razor’s edge election in Fiji blew away a long entrenched authoritarian regime with a breath of fresh air for the Pacific.
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The Australian forest fires are just the start you silly sleepy hobbits – here’s the worst case Climate Crisis scenario
I have been following the IPCC reports since they first came out in 1990 and what has concerned me most over those 30 years is that the worst case scenarios increasingly have become the only scenario.
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All Blacks World Cup Match cancelled by an extreme weather event and local rugby mad media don’t connect dots
Fuck the rugby! This typhoon and its unprecedented speed of intensification is the story here not a bloody sports game!
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Hey wasn’t that wild weather with Tornados, lightening strikes and extreme wind pretty frightening? Get used to your future NZ
Our current political spectrum can not respond fast enough to the radical cultural, economic and societal adaptation required to prepare us for the realities of the climate crisis, we need to be on a war footing, instead we are drunk on the couch chilling with Netflix.
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Oh look at that – the science on climate change IS settled after all
Those who have benefitted from the privileges of big polluting capitalism refuse to agree that the environmentalists have been right all along, even if it means cooking themselves and the planet.