Political Science postdoc researcher at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). My research focusses on politics of climate change, and on comparative politics in general.
I've been coding most of my life, and use FOSS whenever possible.
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Unprecedented will be the new normal. Welcome to our climate changed future.
The NZ government is committed to a 50% GHG cut by 2030 under our Paris NDC, and the PM says he's committed to meeting this.
But there's never been an intention to actually cut our emissions by 50% because that would involve major infrastructural change - e.g. in the next four years we'd have to electrify all road transport and halve agricultural emissions. Which was why the NZ government lobbied hard to allow paying money to other countries under Paris.
But government ministers keep saying that we wont be sending billions overseas because it's not politically palatable.
So the only reasonable conclusion to draw is that government has no interest in actually meeting our climate commitments.
I'm wondering whether @gerrymcgovern is getting a bit too cynical. He's been ranting against renewables on his blog.
And while I agree that they're not the entire solution (we need to be more radicle!), I am convinced that they're part of it. I'm not seeing it acknowledged that with renewables (apart from nuclear), the mining is no longer a consumable.
It gets to me when he off-handedly vilifies heatpumps at the same time!
@TechConnectify has pushed back on this narrative, & I agree with him.
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