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Jacqui Dean – DOC Quietly Puts Iwi Land Consultation on Hold

Jacqui Dean – DOC Quietly Puts Iwi Land Consultation on Hold

The Government has suddenly placed consultations with iwi on how the Department of Conservation can give better effect to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, on-hold following National releasing the draft recommendations last week. “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Minister of Conservation have addressed the recommendations that propose

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Placing Energy in a Battery Results in a Loss of Power

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com Bruce Wilds is the author of the book “Advancing Time.” Both the book and his blog focuses on how the ever-quickening pace of change impacts today’s society and the massive challenges it creates. Anyone that thinks we can simply store huge amounts of energy

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Genghis Khan: Environmental Hero and Climate Activist

Genghis Khan: Environmental Hero and Climate Activist

One of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve ever had was with a certain political figure, a heavyweight in the left wing of the Australian Labor Party. This fellow was holding forth on the alleged ecological calamities engulfing Mother Gaia and, as eco-tastrophists will, opined that the only way to

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Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

We all know that academia has long since become little more than a taxpayer-funded circle-jerk for people who’d rather collect PhDs than actually work for a living in the real world. To some extent we could live with that: if only the onanistic eggheads kept their furious masturbation to

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Attack of the Nuclear Moonbat!

Attack of the Nuclear Moonbat!

It’s a weird but pleasing experience to find myself in agreement with someone whose views I generally detest. It’s even weirder and more pleasant to find an environmentalist actually saying something sensible for once. It’s triply weird when it’s a Guardian columnist. George Monbiot didn’t

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Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Which Is Better for the Environment, the Train or the Car?

Our government has a policy that they are not investing in new roads much anymore because they want people to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead.  This is part of their stated intent to obey the dictates of the IPCC and reduce our CO2 emissions. Prior to the

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Bigtime Wakeup Call

Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and

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Michael Crichton: Is Environmentalism a Religion?

Michael Crichton: Is Environmentalism a Religion?

Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. As more and more in

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Stop Greenwashing Socialism

Stop Greenwashing Socialism

Christopher Barnard aier.org Christopher Barnard is the National Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) and the Founder of the British Conservation Alliance. He studied International Relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science. According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans

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Change to Bio-Plastic and Save the Planet

Change to Bio-Plastic and Save the Planet

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a question popped into the brain, “If a bio-plastic is still a plastic, why is it better for the planet?”  Followed quickly by, “Is it better for the planet?” So what is a bio-plastic?  A common one is made from fermented plant starch from

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Solar Tax Proposal Has the Grifting Middle-Class in a Tizz

Solar Tax Proposal Has the Grifting Middle-Class in a Tizz

Contrary to the popular saying, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and no free lunch. But the left are so wedded to the idea that anything and everything from the gub’mint is free that they’ve even come up with a fancy euphemism for it: Modern Monetary

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Let Them Eat Plastic!

Let Them Eat Plastic!

It’s no real stretch to say that plastic is as vilified as coal is in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum of the contemporary theology of Environmentalism. Green-besotted governments are banning plastic with the same zeal as witch-hunters once banished heretics. As usual, though, the watermelon zealots have got nearly everything wrong.

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The Great Suffocation Is (Almost) Upon Us!

The Great Suffocation Is (Almost) Upon Us!

You can forget climate change or global pandemics. Scientists have unveiled an even more devastating doomsday scenario: We’re all going to suffocate. Nearly everything on Earth. Eventually… like, a billion years eventually. All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete

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Deforestation: The Inconvenient Truth

On those occasions when I’ve foolishly opted to try and debate climate alarmists instead of just patting them on the head and vaguely muttering, “Yes, kids… now, just go back to school and stop making dills of yourselves”, it’s been an exercise in frustration like no other. Imagine

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