"Mr. Trump is against humankind,” - Colombian President Gustavo Petro "We must choose multilateralism over isolationism, science over ideology, and action over fatalism.” - French President Emmanuel Macron #COP30

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap. Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars. electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Subway’s new advertising slogan: throw fresh.

Oh, this is good.

Meanwhile in Aotearoa, our government keeps pouring money into fossil fuels

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg

Price drop makes it cheaper to pollute and reduces the incentive to abate emissions, but Climate Change Minister Simon Watts declines to accept link with new government policies.

The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night: - Decoupling the ETS from Paris - Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years - Delaying the public sector target by 25 years - Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...

National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...

3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power. There will be a lot more records like this to come.

The National Party Campaign Cttee Chair, Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, has introduced new changes to the Fast Track Act further restricting people's ability to test the fast track decisions in court. The fast tracked TTR seabed mining project, supported by Nat donors, ...

Wow. A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years! newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...

I did an interview with Tom Scott that was supposed to be for a North & South story. But North & South is unfortunately "on hold" for the foreseeable, so I've ended up creating a Substack as a destination. It was fun to be able to just dump the whole thing in there. open.substack.com/pub/dubwise/...

Tom Scott tells people to vote - tonight at the Civic. And a few other things!

Opinion: Labour’s desperate, doomed, decades-long effort to get farmers to like them thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...

"We only consulted with the Big Bad Wolves around building materials for little pigs houses, cos they're the ones impacted" #nzpol

"We only consulted with convicted rapists around SA sentencing, cos they're the ones impacted" #nzpol

Very proud of Greenpeace and many others that we stopped the Govt's proposal to increase maximum residue limit for glyphosate (RoundUp) 100 fold. The limit for wheat, barley and oats will remain at 0.1 mg/kg. But they must restart testing for it in our food. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

#nzpol Filled jobs out this week - and the number of filled jobs went up - Whoop! That's great news. Only 45,692 jobs to go until we are back to where we were at the election. Something happened in November 2023, and jobs started to fall....

Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their "idiotic" approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.

From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?

Environmentally destructive seabed mining OR the opportunity to have offshore renewable wind generation. The NZ Govt has fast tracked their donors seabed mining project. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

NZ Agribusiness disrupts all efforts to cut climate pollution, meaning more disruption for food production from extreme weather in the future. NZ Fishing Companies target spawning events to catch quota, which means fewer fish in the future. These industries need public oversight not self-regulation.

If you ever wondered how amazingly short sighted the NZ fishing industry is, get this: as orange roughy numbers collapsed, fishing companies targeted spawning events to catch their quota. They deliberately disrupted the production of the next generation of fish. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/g...

This is the result of decades of climate obstruction by fossil fuel companies and agribusiness, and the political parties they own, and the far right movement they fund.

NZ Agribusiness celebrates the NZ Govt's Climate obstruction efforts. Meanwhile extreme weather hits Southland and the Caribbean faces climate-enhanced mega storm. The stupidity of this short sightedness is only matched by the fishing industry. live-beef-lamb-nz.pantheonsite.io/news/announc...

The #ClimateCrisis makes every storm event more likely, and worse. More likely, and worse. It’s fuelling EVERY storm. #HurricaneMelissa

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

Our country in the south Pacific has been battered by high winds, the kind of weather events that climate change makes worse, yet still the NZ Govt is part of the climate obstruction team. Subsidies to fossil fuels in a climate crisis - madness. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“A spokesperson for Fire and Emergency confirmed the fire started in the car's engine. Bus operator Kinetic said an investigation found the batteries in the bus were undamaged and not a factor in the blaze.”

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

It's beginning to look a lot like the do nothing policy of not spending money or time or energy on mitigating climate change nationally and internationally was ... really bad economics? (Just like everyone with any knowledge told us it would be.) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Shane Jones vs Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. "Unicorn kissing green drivel from doomers and malcontents" vs "Do not depict environmental defenders as criminals or extremists or as posing a threat to public order, security, national interest and economic prosperity."

proving that "baseload" literally isn't a thing anymore AEMO’s running trials to power grids with zero coal, zero gas, and zero spinning metal. Just batteries, solar, and wind. Fossil fuels? Not invited. #auspol #energy reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-turns-t...

We don't need the government to spend billions on big fancy new roads. We need them to build lots more protected bike lanes. A 13-year study found that protected bike lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. It makes roads safer for everyone. #nzpol

The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion. That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Wannabe seabed mining company Trans-Tasman Resources tries to repackage the same bad science and feed it up to the Fast Track expert panel as something new. #BanSeabedMining #Oceans www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Fast-tracked farce: "TTR seems to believe that their friendliness with the coalition government will make up for the fact that they’ve been rejected by everyone else — iwi, scientists, councils, community groups, even the Supreme Court. They’ve lost badly, and repeatedly..." #nzpol bit.ly/3WiYZG1

He murders people in intl waters w/o due process or evidence. He demolishes our East Wing because he feels like it w/o consultation. He fuels an abusive police state to grab people off the street w/o due process. Meanwhile, billionaires & corporations keep handing him millions. They are complicit.

$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas. $0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport archive.ph/bs1Qj

The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

Tell me again why we have to spend a billion dollars a year subsidising @fonterranz.bsky.social etc under the Emissions Trading Scheme, in the process removing the price signal for agribusiness to cut their massive pollution.