Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Why must it be an either-or? Why can't we just stop bloody subsidising the polluters and, instead, divert the money into low-footprint, high-value exports like software development?
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We don't have to give up things, we just have to give up being utterly fucking moronic about what we export.
This. Governments who sneer about 'picking winners' yet continue to subsidise the 1950s in agriculture, transport, housing, exports, etc, deserve to be called out and removed from office. Support those who seem like they can do that.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
we don't have a national standard
A problem spanning all governments since our world-leading Resource Management Act was introduced has been failure to set national standards for regional councils to use, despite their requests.
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to mark taslov,
remarkable foresight
brilliant link
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Of course those irrigated export dollars end up in fewer people's pockets than the en masse. And we don't have to do without technology to have sustainable farming.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Hilary Stace,
hasn't tourism to NZ gone down in the last few years
Global financial collapse and our soaring exchange rate may have something to do with that. Not that it lets anyone off the hook for pretending all is rosy.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
That points to something in the policies, or lack thereof, of the current government.
The decline would lag from the previous government's term as well - but we can only imagine how bad our position will be in a few more years.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to James Butler,
Sweet, where can I buy them?
most African villages (just ask Madonna)
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Announced intent seems the only notable difference between the previous and current governments, implementation being quite indistinguishable
I will charitably presume you have not been paying attention. ETS changes alone have already skewed environmental impacts over the last few years.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to James Butler,
a Greg Johnson earworm
pickled :)
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Russell Brown,
the timing wasn't actually Joy's.
yes, fair point.