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
Re the bombing of Houthi is I think it is the very pro Israeli/Zionist stance of NZ Jewish Council which has a strong influence on ACT and to a lesser extent on National.
Normally one is very hesitant to say such a thing in case one is taken to be anti -Semitic. One of the anecdotal reasons is that a friend who was a trade unionist . He first of all amazed me when he started reposting Hobson pledge, “Thomas Cranmer” and other ACT stuff and very anti Māori writings. Now he is posting a massive amount of very Zionist material that has a large Gaza denialism (sp?) element. He has married into an Auckland Jewish family that incidentally are pretty secular so I don’t know if his views are reflected by the
I recall one industry expert suggesting that, if house prices stagnated and did not rise with inflation, it would take 30 years for housing to be affordable again. The ballon might be filled with helium, but not everyone is laughing all the way to the bank.
Denial or scepticism? It is one thing to acknowledge that the weather extremism of today is greater than it was half a century ago – it is another thing to ascertain the causes, whether they be anthropogenic or cosmogenic [e.g. long-term solar-system cycles]. I recall that that in the 1970s there was speculation about a coming ice age because annual climate temperatures were declining for a decade. Now they are increasing - so its a heat death. Many things are naturally cyclic: day and night; summer and winter; apogee and perigee; precession of the equinox, and so on. But we expect the economy to keep growing and not be rhythmic/cyclic. When it slows, reverses or corrects it is considered ‘broken’ and there is a great fuss about getting it going again.
To me, it makes more sense to blame (if one must) the economy for “climate change” along with world population growth and economic growth. In my parents’ generation [I am 80] world population was much smaller than today. In general, people had much less in the way of consumer goods per person than people of today – even just around the house. Everything that is manufactured to meet these growing “needs” requires energy and by the end of the process that energy is released into the environment. So, more energy per person is released through the economy as we go forward to the future. Both together make it exponential.
What can we do? Stop growing the population, stop expecting to have more and more of everything, that is being so ‘selfish’. That will not be easy! It is not something governments can do - like Covid lockdowns!
It is not to do with cows farting – don't blame innocent animals - it is US being greedy. We have to find another reason for being here on earth than for owning lots of stuff.
Re the bombing of Houthi is I think it is the very pro Israeli/Zionist stance of NZ Jewish Council which has a strong influence on ACT and to a lesser extent on National.
Normally one is very hesitant to say such a thing in case one is taken to be anti -Semitic. One of the anecdotal reasons is that a friend who was a trade unionist . He first of all amazed me when he started reposting Hobson pledge, “Thomas Cranmer” and other ACT stuff and very anti Māori writings. Now he is posting a massive amount of very Zionist material that has a large Gaza denialism (sp?) element. He has married into an Auckland Jewish family that incidentally are pretty secular so I don’t know if his views are reflected by the
in-laws.
Thanks to Bernard & Peter for making really serious news entertaining, love hearing guest input, so glad to hear your guest on Lobbyists.
Due to my less than perfect tech knowledge usually listen to recording not live.
I recall one industry expert suggesting that, if house prices stagnated and did not rise with inflation, it would take 30 years for housing to be affordable again. The ballon might be filled with helium, but not everyone is laughing all the way to the bank.
Climate variation.
Denial or scepticism? It is one thing to acknowledge that the weather extremism of today is greater than it was half a century ago – it is another thing to ascertain the causes, whether they be anthropogenic or cosmogenic [e.g. long-term solar-system cycles]. I recall that that in the 1970s there was speculation about a coming ice age because annual climate temperatures were declining for a decade. Now they are increasing - so its a heat death. Many things are naturally cyclic: day and night; summer and winter; apogee and perigee; precession of the equinox, and so on. But we expect the economy to keep growing and not be rhythmic/cyclic. When it slows, reverses or corrects it is considered ‘broken’ and there is a great fuss about getting it going again.
To me, it makes more sense to blame (if one must) the economy for “climate change” along with world population growth and economic growth. In my parents’ generation [I am 80] world population was much smaller than today. In general, people had much less in the way of consumer goods per person than people of today – even just around the house. Everything that is manufactured to meet these growing “needs” requires energy and by the end of the process that energy is released into the environment. So, more energy per person is released through the economy as we go forward to the future. Both together make it exponential.
What can we do? Stop growing the population, stop expecting to have more and more of everything, that is being so ‘selfish’. That will not be easy! It is not something governments can do - like Covid lockdowns!
It is not to do with cows farting – don't blame innocent animals - it is US being greedy. We have to find another reason for being here on earth than for owning lots of stuff.
A really great Hoon. Ngā mihi, Bernard, Peter, Catherine, Robert and guests.
Robert should have been heard on every news broadcast in the county - just brilliant.
Happy weekend, fellow Kākā.