The Tongariro National Park wildfire vs cutting emergency response as climate change events become more catastrophic

There is a dreadful disconnect between the Government’s policies and the extreme weather events that are generated by climate change that are hitting NZ.

Climate denier Trolls scream the extreme weather events are all natural.

Bullshit.

The planet continues to dangerously heat thanks to human pollution.

The Polluters employ Bot armies to denounce anyone who points this out and fund Think Tanks to constantly strangle any environmental policies.

We are seeing that in COP30 where 2,000 polluter advocates are stopping any changes.

NZ is heating up, this means more fires, more extreme droughts and more land erosion when extreme rain hits those droughts.

What’s the Government’s response (other than bullshit Methane targets and prevent Climate Commissioner Oversight?), why cut Emergency services of course…

Emergency response roles on the chopping block with Government merger

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…cutting emergency responses when there is going to be a massive jump in emergencies is so inanely counter productive, but that’s the short term focus of Right Wing Governments who don’t believe climate change is real in the first place.

We need a massive upgrade of Civil Defence and far more resources spent on ensuring our infrastructure has the flexibility to withstand these types of extreme weather events.

We need RSAs and Maraes to be built up into Community civil Defence Hubs and we need a solar panel campaign to ensure a flexible electrical grid alongside better battery cell towers.

We need a Civil Defence that is far better resourced than they are now with permanent clean up crew staff on stand by because this doesn’t get better right?

The 230km hour winds we just experienced only get worse, as heat continues to pour into the atmosphere because of human made pollution, the extreme weather gets worse and worse, we need a new Civil Defence regime that reflects the reality of what we are seeing.

Dr Bryce Edwards highlights that the recent local council elections had lobby groups like ‘The Local Government Business Forum’ — a coalition including Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Initiative, and Federated Farmers — openly calling for voters to elect candidates with “commercial and financial acumen” and a “pro-growth and pro-development mindset”, part of the problem here in NZ is that business lobby groups can mask their polluter interests with dark Ag money that the wider electorate can’t see.

The reason the astro-turf alt-right are so focused on undermining local councils and Government is because the polluter interests that fund these groups want a Government so undermined that when the realities of climate change finally get into the heads of muddle NuZilind, there isn’t a Government with the capacity to do anything about the Polluters.

Most right wingers refuse to believe in climate change because in their ignorant tiny lives this is just another culture war issue where their feelings matter more than the actual science.

They refuse to believe in it because Left wingers are for it!

The danger for the polluters and the alt-Right is that with every passing year, the scientific evidence for climate change only gets stronger and the extreme weather becomes impossible to ignore, what this will do is force the political class to take the issue seriously.

There is a tipping point where even the climate deniers can’t ignore the realities of what we face.

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