Featuring the podcast of our weekly Hoon live webinar, plus five things that mattered this week, including the latest big climate, transport, housing and political news in Aotearoa, and in geopolitics
Interesting discussion with Catherine on the cultural aspect of peoples attitudes towards the 1.5 degrees limit for being able to do anything to limit the effects of climate change. One little example. A friend of mine told me that he didn’t think 1.5 degrees was a problem: that increase would make life much more pleasurable!! Now if that view is common then people have not got the message of the EFFECTS of climate change and it certainly won’t be pleasurable. Another comment about a warming planet is ‘they can’t make up their minds whether the world is going to freeze or get warmer so why should we worry.’ So the question is how do the scientists communicate better so that the average person can understand. And that average person really really matters. It is what they do, or don’t do, that will determine what happens to the world. My tuppence ha’penny worth is. Can social media be used with simple messages flashing up everywhere? Eg. ‘1.5 degrees = more bush fires”, Plastic bad’, ‘shop once a week’ etc etc. We do that when bringing up our children and it was effective.
Kudos to Yemen, despite enduring years of western backed aggression they are still trying to cease the genocide being committed by Israel and its morally defunct allies. Like the Uk US et al they may have been tainted with unsavoury practices such as slavery in the past but at least they are atoning now. Wish a few other ‘liberal democracies’ would.
Not sure why a revolution (re CC) 'from the bottom' is equated to young people. The term has historically meant those outside of meaningful influence on the current political economic regime(s). Whether this happens within a timeframe that 'saves' whatever is another question and one might look to obstacles to rapid change within our political economic system. I agree this must include psychology in some way but then we're all amateur psychologists, no?
Interesting discussion with Catherine on the cultural aspect of peoples attitudes towards the 1.5 degrees limit for being able to do anything to limit the effects of climate change. One little example. A friend of mine told me that he didn’t think 1.5 degrees was a problem: that increase would make life much more pleasurable!! Now if that view is common then people have not got the message of the EFFECTS of climate change and it certainly won’t be pleasurable. Another comment about a warming planet is ‘they can’t make up their minds whether the world is going to freeze or get warmer so why should we worry.’ So the question is how do the scientists communicate better so that the average person can understand. And that average person really really matters. It is what they do, or don’t do, that will determine what happens to the world. My tuppence ha’penny worth is. Can social media be used with simple messages flashing up everywhere? Eg. ‘1.5 degrees = more bush fires”, Plastic bad’, ‘shop once a week’ etc etc. We do that when bringing up our children and it was effective.
Yes definitely- being a tidy kiwi and save the ozone is drilled into me from my late 80/early 90s primary school days.
Nice to hear, albeit briefly, you describing (quite accurately may I say) some of the many issues we have in waiheke... thanks
Kudos to Yemen, despite enduring years of western backed aggression they are still trying to cease the genocide being committed by Israel and its morally defunct allies. Like the Uk US et al they may have been tainted with unsavoury practices such as slavery in the past but at least they are atoning now. Wish a few other ‘liberal democracies’ would.
Not sure why a revolution (re CC) 'from the bottom' is equated to young people. The term has historically meant those outside of meaningful influence on the current political economic regime(s). Whether this happens within a timeframe that 'saves' whatever is another question and one might look to obstacles to rapid change within our political economic system. I agree this must include psychology in some way but then we're all amateur psychologists, no?