The Daily Blog Open Mic – 9th May 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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This is interesting – marinne transport innovation?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018889077/trade-winds-how-sail-power-could-decarbonise-global-shipping
The answer to decarbonising international trade is blowing in the wind, according to an Australian-based academic who says it’s time for sail-based transport to make a comeback.
The global shipping industry is heavily reliant on diesel and accounts for 3 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Dr Christiaan De Beukelaer told Sunday Morning.
Some important news from the front via RNZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018889179/nearly-40-percent-of-gulf-harbour-ferry-trips-cancelled-in-2022
In this advanced year of 2023 in the developed islands of NZ/Ao – we can’t rely on having reliable transport. What can we rely on? Well one gets cynical doesn’t one. But why should we be, isn’t that shooting ourselves in the foot? Haven’t we enough nous to find a way around our past mistakes and constructed barriers, get into the circus by slithering under the sides of the tent? We need to reach resilience, organise with new approaches using humans for humans, despite the fractured state of our economy and our systems, and our once often harmonious, equalitarian society? So many questions, such a tiring person, will you shut up! – but Why is the sky blue Dad?
Because – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdqdO5LAIA The Beatles plaintive sweet song
And another sweet song, possibly, being cutoff.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018889245/oranga-tamariki-cuts-funding-for-130-trusts-working-with-youth
Youth Alive Trust manager James Ridpath said in the 10 years it had received government funding, 2000 young people had taken part in its programmes.
But Ridpath said Oranga Tamariki was redirecting its focus to work with the most high needs rangatahi instead of helping prevent people who may be heading in that direction with early intervention.
Building resilience, enabling people, to the neolib mind it’s like throwing crusts to the sparrows when you feel like it. Then you move on taking your crusts to someone else. The sparrows twitter but they needed those crusts to help them fledge their youngsters.
We need people who accept they are part of a group, not some alienated upper class or pure group working to unreal precepts above those or ordinary, despised lower classes. Note we are back in the class society that people said they sailed away from old Brit to get away from. But desire for money and peacock strutting will if allowed to rise far, win every time over a more involved egalitarian society – which doesn’t have to be communistic or narrowly communal and extinguish the individual.