Waatea 5th Estate – “Oil Exploration in Aotearoa”

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1. Fantastic show. Excellent information especially about biofuel as a bi product from the pine industry (had seen other reports about negative effects from biofuels but think that was related to food crops like Maize).

   Also really believe that they are spot on about National. They really just are dinosaurs incapable of change and extremely poor economic managers. The idea of selling off our power companies so that they could give private irrigation systems to some farmers was lunacy. Now look they have even botched up Dairy economically as well as environmentally! Probably part of the master plan to sell off NZ farms to China and others just like the state house being tendered off cheap.

   How when oil has plummeted in price, the world is changing away from this for cleaner solutions, do we have a government ‘pimping’ NZ as a deep sea exploration and paying for this corporate welfare to oil companies?

   Even worse Auckland Council including Len Brown voted for this too! Are they all mad and short sighted? What about a summit on clean energy with everyones expenses paid?

   Also like the idea of creative capital which is something not being utilised. The idea of Brownlee rebuilding Christchurch as an example of how people who do not have the skills or ability to do something just taking over and more capable people being shut out by government, again lunacy – how do we get there?

   We are working longer hours and have a poorer quality of life. Research has shown that teenagers are actually more anxious and less trusting than previous generations. People need to take that u turn and go back to what really matters in life!

   You can have billions in the bank, but as people in China and other countries have found, if the air around you makes you sick – the money is irrelevant.

   You might have a beautiful house by the sea now, but if the sea is full of oil and plastic and every year you are flooded due to climate change, what sort of quality of life is that?

   Maybe this is the only way to get through to them. But as closet climate change deniers the government will think they will be ok and keep on with that (very) short term thinking.

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2. A new record-high atmospheric CO2 of 407.12ppm, 18th March 2016.

   https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

   ‘Nobody’ is interested, even though it implies accelerating meltdown.

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3. Yes great show and great work Martyn.

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4. FU–KING AWESOME SHOW MARTYN,

   BEGINNING OF A POLITICAL VOICE OUT THERE THANKS VERY MUCH, KEEP IT COMMING.

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5. Excellent show…… well done Martyn

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