You can never have enough...

[Jan]

And if the big power companies had invested in infrastructure over the years in preparation for dry years - instead of taking huge profits for their shareholders, including successive governments of all stripes, we might still be self sufficient in power. If our population hadn't expanded so fast and so much, if we hadn't all taken up technology that relies on power, and demanded the same from our councils, and schools, and institutions. And suppliers.

We are all living beyond our means, but suggest we might downsize, or limit consumption, or live smaller - and all hell breaks loose. Suggest climate change means we need to act now, and take radical action - and more hell breaks loose. And the politicians know it. That's their jobs at risk, their comfy lifestyles, their status and power.


We are spoilt, and we refuse to acknowledge it. And the end result of that refusal is seriously bad news. Not just for belt tightening or any other limitation on our lives - but it puts our grandchildren's lives at serious risk.

That is the real price.

I think that what it comes back to yet again is successive govts  being either unwilling to or incapable of, taking a much longer term view.

Was just reading it’s 50 years since Norman Kirk died - we probably all agree he was the last PM we have had that ran the country on good old common sense .Ideology should never override common sense and while we all want to protect our grandchildren todays kids living in Ohakune also need to be protected,We are not protecting our grandchildren increasing the pollution in China or burning dirty coal in Huntly - that’s not common sense when we could be using our own resources- if we could survive not using them and not increasing pollution in China that’s common sense