Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 14
Jonathon Porritt calls bullshit on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’; The scoop on changes to Wellington's IHP plan; YIMBY politics in America; Inequality over the really long run
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:
Today’s must-read: Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.
Local scoop: The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this morning to Joel MacManus at The Spinoff
Local deep-dive: A High Court ruling on Māori customary rights on the Wairarapa coast could run into political agitation to change the Marine and Coastal Areas Act, Tim Murphy reported for Newsroom on Tuesday.
Global scoop: Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies. NY Times-gift
Global deep-dive: The political stresses inside the bipartisan YIMBY movement in the United States are bubbling to the surface, Jerusalem Demsas reports via The Atlantic-gift
Column of the day: Jo Moir via RNZ on the Government passing 14 bills under urgency in seven weeks.
Op-ed of the day: Dominic Foote via NZ Herald-$$$ on why NZ’s housing crisis is going to get worse.
Thread of the day: MusicalChairs14 via X on rents vs earnings in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Paper of the day: Guido Alfani, Inequality in history: A long-run view, paper in the Journal of Economic Surveys.
Fun thing of the day: Scraps for the cops.
Today’s must-read
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