Environment Southland who recently voted against declaring a ‘climate emergency’. The only other council to do so in New Zealand so far is Thames-Coromandel.
[…] It’s a relief to see some common sense after so many councils have jumped on the climate emergency bandwagon. The trend doesn’t seem likely to let up soon, so expect your council to vote on a declaration soon (if it hasn’t already).
Taxpayer’s Union
As election year is upon us, we must all demand real reform of both the RMA and Local Government.
Like the rest of south-east Australia, Tasmania is a landscape shaped by humans for millennia.
Over the next tens of thousands of years, it’s reasonable to assume that humanity will have pioneered numerous ways to geoengineer the planet’s climate on rapid timescales, so another ice age could very well be preventable.
It makes one wonder why on earth the National Party don’t have enough sense to replace their liability of a leader, who is already costing them votes.
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there. But then that would mean actual work.
Tamatha Paul is responsible for the positions she advocated, the amendments she moved, and the prioritisation she helped secure. That is the level at which accountability properly sits. And insisting on that level of accountability is not racism. It is politics.
Opportunity will not make it. It never does. The only history it is writing is another chapter in the long book of parties that confused media hype with voter support.
