There is no economic growth on a dead planet.

Pass it on.

Labour has voted down the GreensNZ member's bill to end mining on conservation land & keep coal in the ground.

In a climate emergency.

The only thing you can count on the Labour Party is being utterly disappointing.

This was just another campaign promise they broke.

Funny how when they promise no CGT or No Wealth Tax, they manage to keep those.

Labour are just Tories with another name.

#NZPol

if you're a parent of White children and you consider yourself to be antiracist in any way, you've got to talk to your kids about it.

no grownup ever sat me down and talked to me about race and racism. but I was surrounded by casual racism mostly in the form of "jokes" from both grownups and other kids.

wish I could have skipped some steps of the unlearning I have to do today, by being inoculated before being exposed to that shit.

Cabinet has gone some way towards restoring the legitimacy of the Climate Change Commission, by backing down from a fight over the ETS and accepting the commission's advice.

My analysis on yesterday's surprise announcement:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/sustainable-future/surprise-decision-restores-climate-commissions-legitimacy