NZ politics professor at Uni of Canterbury, NZ, political scientist: youth & climate, sustainability, democracy, urban resilience (IPCC author/co-ordinating author AR6, RE for cities & climate special report AR7)
Bronwyn Hayward
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I argue this is where Minister Shane Jones is most vulnerable because if we take his arguments in good faith, his intention is to drive development for NZ particularly for Northland
But the methods his party now advocate risk taking NZ backwards in development-something we’d assumed couldn’t happen
Set aside the Minister’s unfortunate warning to @rnzrss.bsky.social
Let’s reflect on Jone’s argument that the middle class (who ‘watch Attenborough’ on tv & worry about bottom trawling?!) threatens fishers’ livelihoods
But his alternative traps people in unsustainable fishing methods of the past
The annual test of New Zealand’s emergency mobile alert system will be sent to all capable cellphones and other SIM-connected devices on Sunday between 6pm and 7pm.
Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled – here’s why that matters
By Prof Piers Forster and Dr Debbie Rosen
#climatecrisis
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The mining industry funding and relationship that has propelled Hanson above Australia’s Labour & Liberal parties …
NZ is going to have to work very hard on its independence in foreign policy…
Don’t let facts get in the way of racism..
NZ @radionz.nzcow.com listeners just heard a NZ Minister thinly vailed threats
Ingrid Hipkiss held her ground when Minister Jones told the ‘state’ broadcaster to be ‘careful’
She pointed out a story he complained was ignored was covered, asking if his complaint was that he wasn’t interviewed? 🙏
It was a tense interview & a frustrating one.
It also underscores some of the very basic struggles of NZ democracy right now
This government has removed the Broadcasting Standards Authority with no indication of how complaints about democratic broadcasting freedoms will be addressed in the future
NZ’s hubris is thinking that development reversal & backsliding of human development indexes is a problem for other countries not NZ
And that all we need to do is more of what we’ve done: more growth, raw commodities, milk, tourism, mining can reverse the slide
It won’t www.undp.org/geneva/press...
