Defund the inhospitable villa dwellers of Ponsonby and Grey Lynn, give the money to the mighty west and south thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-10…

At some point we'll have to face the fact that politely asking the ruling class to stop climate destruction is not going to work.

Monday morning spoiler alert (COP27 special!): we can only overcome the great climate problem by focusing on changing our expectations of the way we live (and move, work, buy, etc.), not by switching energy sources under inherently unsustainable modes of life.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people. Sound efficient? HT Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Today officially marks 8 billion humans on Earth. Meanwhile humanity has wiped out 70% of wild animal populations since 1970. We don't live outside of nature.

This is not progress. It just isn't.

A lot of people want to disenfranchise a whole age group because they're concerned they lack critical thinking skills, but I think Boomers should be allowed to vote despite being nearly seven times more likely than people aged 18-29 to share fake news on Facebook

In 30 years of UN climate negotiations, eliminating the primary cause of global heating - fossil fuels - has never been mentioned in the decisions, not even in the COP27 in 2022. And these were the results.

In case you don’t believe the same equations govern motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.

If you think public transportation is a money-loser, wait til I show you the spreadsheet on car culture. You will probably want to be sitting down for this.

I suspect many people still think of climate change as an emissions problem... Its impact on societies and their constituent parts - humans - is already far more fundamental and multi-faceted than that. Exhibit A below 👏👇

Such a strong week-based pattern recently in NZ's covid data... are we such creatures of the weekend?! 🙉

Fizzy drinks crisis imminent in NZ!🙉 Yes, these are the problems we're reporting on in '23... rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Finally the world acknowledges the human impacts of the C02 crisis... rnz.co.nz/news/business/…

"We need both emission reductions & Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)" is the duality I find increasingly problematic. The problem is that we aren't reducing emissions. The statement should be conditional: "If we have rapid emission reductions, then we need both" 1/

Seeking Twitter hive mind! Names matter - so to get beyond erroneous 'developed / developing' countries, we're proposing new country clusters, in terms of their journey towards living in the Doughnut. For starters: Rise-Shift-Fulfil-Reduce. What else do you suggest?...

When a sector says they were “blindsided” by regulation changes govt signalled a long way ahead what I think they mean is “we thought there would be a change of govt that would repeal”.