Heaviest-ever day's rainfall set to be Aotearoa's most-expensive climate event; Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown exposed; New PM Chris Hipkins gets crisis test 10 days into the job
As we transition without brave politicians, things like fossil fuels and meat will get both more expensive for Joe-public and more profitable for their producers.
Successive years of records profits will position the likes of oil companies, their investors, and their dutiful paid-for politicians, to comfortably surf the hellscape climate change is causing. And they will re-emerge as 'energy' companies without the slightest scars on them.
Eventually nature will force us to adapt our living environment to be more in harmony with it instead of the concrete and asphalt jungle we have now. The question remains how painful our way to acceptance will be.
I feel for Auckland who will most likely now face the same nightmare Christchurch faced with insurance. I hope lessons learned will be implemented but I have my doubts.
There is an irony here that underscores the problems in our measurement of economic well being, which is that this event will be ‘good’ for the economy, or at least the GDP side of it. It will also be inflationary, and it will be interesting to see how the RBNZ reacts to it given the unhappiness amongst the electorate to one shock after another.
Building resilience through three waters and using our country’s balance sheet to prepare us for an increasingly dire climactic future is now no longer a political nice to have. It’s an absolute fir survival.
Refusing to do something significant is wilfully imposing disaster on our future all for the benefit if a couple of entitled old men.
Students, parents, teacher, workers, grandparents and aunts and uncles need to get out on the streets to demand immediate action and the removal of climate deniers from any position of influence.
Release please Bernard. Interesting that the Mayors of our two biggest cities (Auckland and Christchurch) are climate-change "deniers". Even if we stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow we have 30 years of this to come in NZ. Ford ranger drivers will still "thumb their nose at their grandchildren". Main problems in NZ are 1. Farmers and 2. Elderly Rich white men. As the Green Party says NZ has plenty to go around!
Great exposure of the failure of Government to address the threats of changing climate. And if we think this Government, with the inclusion a Green climate change minister is deficient, any other Government will likely be way, way worse.
Morning Bernard I hope you get to ask some of the tough questions in the next press gathering!! However I wouldn’t be holding my breath at getting any decent replies. It really is time to get Chloe on the Kaka she was fantastic on Friday with her coms on Twitter. Haven’t heard anything from Seymour!! But then I don’t follow him on Twitter.
Great summary. Thanks.
This is very important, please make it available it to all
Damning bullet points!
Definitely one worthy of sharing
Similar problems have been well analysed for well over two decades.
Consider the Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel
New Zealand's largest bored wastewater tunnel will help clean up Central Auckland waterways.
https://www.watercare.co.nz/About-us/Projects-around-Auckland/Central-Interceptor
How many more overdue massive infrastructure projects are needed in Auckland to mitigate flood issues?
As we transition without brave politicians, things like fossil fuels and meat will get both more expensive for Joe-public and more profitable for their producers.
Successive years of records profits will position the likes of oil companies, their investors, and their dutiful paid-for politicians, to comfortably surf the hellscape climate change is causing. And they will re-emerge as 'energy' companies without the slightest scars on them.
Eventually nature will force us to adapt our living environment to be more in harmony with it instead of the concrete and asphalt jungle we have now. The question remains how painful our way to acceptance will be.
I feel for Auckland who will most likely now face the same nightmare Christchurch faced with insurance. I hope lessons learned will be implemented but I have my doubts.
There is an irony here that underscores the problems in our measurement of economic well being, which is that this event will be ‘good’ for the economy, or at least the GDP side of it. It will also be inflationary, and it will be interesting to see how the RBNZ reacts to it given the unhappiness amongst the electorate to one shock after another.
Building resilience through three waters and using our country’s balance sheet to prepare us for an increasingly dire climactic future is now no longer a political nice to have. It’s an absolute fir survival.
Refusing to do something significant is wilfully imposing disaster on our future all for the benefit if a couple of entitled old men.
Students, parents, teacher, workers, grandparents and aunts and uncles need to get out on the streets to demand immediate action and the removal of climate deniers from any position of influence.
Enough is enough
Hi Bernard, as someone else mentioned, presumably this cleanup will have an inflationary effect and I wonder if you have a feel for how significant?
Release please Bernard. Interesting that the Mayors of our two biggest cities (Auckland and Christchurch) are climate-change "deniers". Even if we stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow we have 30 years of this to come in NZ. Ford ranger drivers will still "thumb their nose at their grandchildren". Main problems in NZ are 1. Farmers and 2. Elderly Rich white men. As the Green Party says NZ has plenty to go around!
Patrick Medlicott
Great summary - people need to have this stuff in their heads. Make it available!
Did I hear Auckland's theme song on the radio yesterday?
Dragon's 'Rain'.
The main refrain - "Don't go out in the pouring rain"
Isn’t calling transportation measures to combat climate change a”war on cars” actually calling for a “war on lives”?
The inaction and hoarding of Govt is the upstream problem to all these downstream problems for us.
Great exposure of the failure of Government to address the threats of changing climate. And if we think this Government, with the inclusion a Green climate change minister is deficient, any other Government will likely be way, way worse.
Morning Bernard I hope you get to ask some of the tough questions in the next press gathering!! However I wouldn’t be holding my breath at getting any decent replies. It really is time to get Chloe on the Kaka she was fantastic on Friday with her coms on Twitter. Haven’t heard anything from Seymour!! But then I don’t follow him on Twitter.
Open up to the general public please. Thanks