The RMA is a cumbersome and expensive piece of legislation that 30 years and 19 amendments, including the Greens’ latest contribution, have failed to make workable. It should be scrapped and rewritten. A recent example of the inefficient process is Watercare’s application to take more water from the Waikato
As psychologist Hal Herzog writes, in his Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, humans are practically incapable of thinking consistently rationally about animals. Animal activists are well aware of this basic irrationality and exploit it to the hilt. The campaigns of animal activists are invariably long on
Watercare’s 2013 application with the Waikato Regional Council waits for RMA approval to take an extra 200 megalitres of water to cater to Auckland’s increasing population demands, but 105 applications are ahead of it on the RMA list. Auckland’s reservoirs were depleted during the very dry summer
I first read about the Passenger Pigeon when I was but a boy. Then, as now, it was a staple of the eco-doom narrative kick-started by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. And, like Carson’s book, it’s a severely flawed narrative which overlooks key facts. The Passenger Pigeon was
When I wrote recently about the ABC’s “fact-checker” almost admitting that a conservative prime minister was correct, I put it down to a new kid on that day, who didn’t know the iron rule of ABC “fact checks”. It turns out that I may have been wrong (it
R&BAvenger Watched ‘Planet of the Humans’ on YouTube last night. A real eye-opener for me and my other half. Interestingly she was also inspired to watch Andrew Bolt and Rowan Dean‘s take on the movie as well, which came up immediately afterwards. The best part for the
Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com The latest documentary by Michael Moore is free to watch in its entirety on YouTube. Ad revenue may be his best bet of monetising his “work” these days as box office sales are a mere shadow of what they once were. I watched Michael Moore Presents:
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It takes a special kind of creep to celebrate a global pandemic that’s cost the lives of some 200,000 people. But then, we already knew that greens are special kinds of creeps. And they’re not holding back in celebrating death and misery in the name of holy
Every now and then, I pick up a book which slaps my mindset into a new paradigm. No seed flowers on barren soil, of course, so in it’s true that in some ways I might be mentally primed to receive the message such books impart. Nonetheless, I am lucky
It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19. Here among the sensible folk at The BFD it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard. Never more so than now. New York San Francisco Massachusetts
O’Sullivan’s Law states that “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right-wing will become left-wing over time”. This is in part because leftists tend to only tolerate other leftists. Multiple surveys have shown that conservatives are twice as likely as ‘liberals’ to tolerate different opinions. So once
In the late 70s and early 80s, race hustlers in the United States discovered a new – and lucrative – tactic: lawfare. It was so simple: just level an accusation of racism at a corporate target and watch them rush to settle. After all, with ambulance-chasing lawyers willing to work pro bono
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As I’ve written before, the Morrison government’s plans for a royal commission into Australia’s bushfire disaster this summer is fraught with potential problems. Not least is that unscrupulous climate activists will turn it into a bully pulpit for their hysterics. Another potential roadblock is that those with
We’ve already seen how Greta Thunberg and her little pals reduced an historic village green to a muddy wasteland when they gathered to shake their little fists and screech “how dare you!” at all and sundry. Well, how dare they? The residents of Bristol are angry at popular eco-activist
