Once upon a time unionists and Labor politicians actually worked for a living – at least for a while – before plonking their arses on the velvet and sucking on the public teat for life. This at least gave them some sense of what their constituents’ needs and priorities were. Not any
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Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage
Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and
As I’ve written several times, our collective approach to the Chinese virus might be called the “Moloch Option”: sacrificing the health, wellbeing and, in the form of increased suicides, the very lives of the young, in order to save the elderly most at risk from the Wuhan plague. The
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“Scotty from Marketing” is yet another inane hashtag sneer from the Twitter left. If only it wasn’t so damned on-point. On the one hand, Scott Morrison genuinely deserves to be lauded for holding a strong line against China’s trade and diplomatic bullying. On the other, domestic, front, though,
There is activism and then there is extremism. Do you think that any of the views expressed by today’s face of the day, Investment Advisor Dr Paul Winton slide into the realm of extremism? Carbon emissions would drop significantly if cattle were not replaced when they die and tree
Ardern’s government said no to coal mining and oil and gas exploration in their pursuit of zero carbon, ignoring the hypocrisy attached to importing Indonesian coal and substandard overseas mining practices. Turning a blind eye to unethical mining means the poor – the workers and inhabitants of polluted land – are
One of the most comforting aspects of The Climate Change Commission’s latest report describing the roadmap towards making NZ carbon-free is that it has been left to Ardern’s government to implement. And as we all know, when Ardern makes a statement like “The Government will not hold back”
It seems the direction the country is going will be determined by the Climate Commission, not least in reference to the name of our island group where in their ridiculous report, released this week, we are referred to as Aotearoa 435 times in its 188 pages–yes, you read that
What we are faced with is not just mindless, irresponsible scaremongering from poseurs in and around Wellington’s Beehive for their nefarious political ends; now we have it in Auckland in what was once hailed as the nation’s No 1 daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald. There was a
Robin Grieve Chairman F.A.R.M. ‘The Climate Commission’s recommendation to reduce livestock numbers by 15% by 2030 is not sensible, practical or justified,’ Robin Grieve, chairman of FARM (Facts About Ruminant Methane) said yesterday. Reducing livestock numbers will invariably cost New Zealand export income, and mean that
Stuff applauds Jacinda Ardern and Joe Biden’s declaration of a climate change crisis while feigning, as Ardern and Biden do, their commitment to welcoming “diverse opinions” and practising “openness and transparency”. They lie. Their minds are made up. They believe that man-made climate change will destroy the planet unless
“Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life,” is a maxim attributed to everyone from Aristotle to the Jesuits, but throughout history it is one well understood by would-be totalitarians. It’s why the Nazis had their Hitler Jugend, the Communists their Komsomol
