07-09-2023, 11:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2023, 12:13 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
No one is suggesting we can stop climate change now. It is too late. What those of us supporting these measures want is adaptation, forward planning, and mitigation in order to minimise the destruction and very unpleasant consequences of what is an unstoppable process. The projections just around sea level rises for New Zealand are scary, and being updated regularly to be even more worrying. That is economic loss, financial loss for the country, for local councils, and for individuals. Look at what the floods have cost us already, imagine that with those sea coast changes underway. Cities are built on coastal land. Roading networks follow coastal pathways.
Undoing the very small (note I am choosing not to say 'unbelieveably inadquate'), steps taken under the label Climate Change Emergency is going to set us back decades and cost us lives and livelihoods.
Undoing is probably inevitable, but even worse is the prospect of no action at all, other than opening the doors to the wealthy, who can afford boltholes here, while making sure the other climate change refugees, the ones whose nations are going to disappear completely, will be met with inadequate housing, low paid jobs, next to no medical, education, or other social support necessary to remake lives.
If you think life is a bit challenging now with our public services under pressure, that is going to get a hell of a lot worse on a steady trajectory from now on.
And so far, no government wannabes seem to be even vaguely aware of the fact.
But hey, that's pragmatism for you. Nelson style. Or maybe just Sargeant Schultz...
Undoing the very small (note I am choosing not to say 'unbelieveably inadquate'), steps taken under the label Climate Change Emergency is going to set us back decades and cost us lives and livelihoods.
Undoing is probably inevitable, but even worse is the prospect of no action at all, other than opening the doors to the wealthy, who can afford boltholes here, while making sure the other climate change refugees, the ones whose nations are going to disappear completely, will be met with inadequate housing, low paid jobs, next to no medical, education, or other social support necessary to remake lives.
If you think life is a bit challenging now with our public services under pressure, that is going to get a hell of a lot worse on a steady trajectory from now on.
And so far, no government wannabes seem to be even vaguely aware of the fact.
But hey, that's pragmatism for you. Nelson style. Or maybe just Sargeant Schultz...