The West Coast Regional Council is the face of climate denial – let them drown!
Look at these glazed hams
My God, the astounding ignorance of these sanctimonious pricks…
West Coast council rejects government climate change bill
The West Coast Regional Council wants more scientific evidence to prove human-driven climate change is happening before it will commit to reducing emissions.
…look at those glazed hams. Is there a better image of white privileged climate denial ignorance?
As a record breaking heatwave hits NZ after the warmest year on record, we still have beige male dinosaurs roaring about their own extinction.
It’s like the Renaissance never came to the West Coast, if these book burning creationists represent the people of the West Coast, then the West Coast should receive NO Government funding to help them adapt to the realities of climate change…
This month’s deluge across the West Coast brought more rain to some places than other parts of New Zealand receive in a year.
Roads were cut off, the approach to a bridge washed away, and one person lost their life. This was a tragedy, but all too real for us all. It is also a poignant reminder of things to come.
Flooding across the West Coast is only going to get more severe in the coming decades with climate change.
…if a region who will be hit hardest by climate change denies that climate change, they should be left to drown. This is darwinism and evolution now, something the West Coast Regional Council probably doesn’t believe in.
what a bunch of f*****s
You wonder what damage this lot may have caused to other people already over the course of their munted lives…
The dead hands of the West Coast Regional Council, the chilling self interest of the climate deniers (all of them with a MSc from the Readers
Digest Night School of Environmental Science) – and not a woman amongst them.
Speaks volumes about the tragically short-sighted mentality of the macho men of the South Island West Coast .
I heard them wank on this morning on RNZ. Unbelievable ignorance. What more evidence do these neanderthals need, the Word of God??
In the hottest year on record, these clowns are demanding “more evidence”? Human stupidity reigns supreme on the West Coast.
There is a free FutureLearn course on right now, called Climate Change: The Science. The West Coast Regional councillors and council staff should join that course now and get educated about the greatest threat there is to us and our descendants – climate change and global warming. Ignorance is no excuse – action is needed now.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-change-the-science/3/todo/43055
Peter, you’re assuming that these gentlemen are familiar with the concept of “The-In-ter-net”?!
The people if Granity need to have a word with those glazed hams. How ignorant can they be, its happening on their own doorstep. I heard that dimwit on the radio this morning too and what a sanctimonious der-brained fuckwit he did sound.
I like the West Coast, love it’s people. What you need to realise is once past Otira set your clocks back 20 years.
This council is typical Coasters, resilient people descended from gold and coal miners, they are altogether more fundamentally attached to and closer to ripping a living from the earth than most Kiwis. And their environment offers precious little but coal and trees, and now tourism.
If you want better environmental behaviour and beliefs from them ask what their needs and desires are and help them get there. Otherwise expect what they give us.
Sack the whole lot and bring in commissioners to run all 4 councils on the WC. They would dig the whole bloody thing up if they had their way,
I would even forcibly relocate the West Coasters and turn the whole thing into a permanent nature reserve,
let the insurance companies deal with them they understand climate change better than anyone lets see how the west coast deals with the realization they may be living in an insurance black zone
Trying to understand them by looking at their photo. Jam Tomorrow refers to their “dead hands” which are strategically placed to protect their life-affirming private parts. All but one in gray suits, the one in jeans & a jacket looks like the Coasters Nick J describes. Can’t tell their stupidity from their faces. Surely they can read & find the evidence they want, plenty out there in their environment too. But I’m just a smart arse woman.
You may have noticed that most people conform to expectations and opinions of those around them.
The West Coast has had some brilliant thinkers but little evidence of such in recent local politics.
All NZ councils are in denial of the reality. They all promote economic development based on use of fossil fuels. It’s just that the West Coast mob have been blatantly stupid about their denial of reality.
Well, now we’ve all had a bash at the Coasters, who among us has the facts and the ability to relate to them and the issues they face?
They’re not numerous. They’ll be near the back of the queue for roading and land protection. Poor province and, yes, not heavily brown, either. The good old ‘partnership’ won’t be working in favour of your average Coaster.
Few are going to the Coast to set up industries. With Christchurch sucking in resources – where’s the money and energy?
Blokes who rarely wear suits often do look like hams when they’re dressed up. Doesn’t make them thick, though. (Neither are pigs…)
They’ve got to sell this to their constituents in ways a bit different from how you’d flog it to a gushing townie. They aren’t the only sceptics around. Nor are they the only ones who need the info so they can start to respond and plan in their own ways.
How about we help them out? For everyone’s best interests…