Wait, is this rubber road a good idea? Won't this wash particles into local waterways? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in #airpollution - Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🪧 Bring back half-price fares!!! 🪧 ✊️

These people are actually evil. I never used to believe in the concept, I thought it was about structures and self-interest, but now it looks a heck of a lot more like actual, biblical evil

Boom!

Reading through the 4 enumerated items in particular, it is super clear that robust public research capability is needed to address them all. At the same time, this government is further destroying that very capability and the pathways for training up the next generations. #NZPOL

Genocide is a perpetual structure of colonialism, and we must protect ourselves from numbness to its horror.

Spent a little time in Central/East Auckland today. What are different world! So pretty! It would give you a very different perspective on the world to live like that. We all deserve beauty and green spaces, across the whole city 💚

One grandmother was a teacher, one worked in hospitality, one was a lab assistant (yes I have 3) 💛💛💛

What a novel idea 🥲

The era of mega projects is over. We have to invest in our resilience instead - small scale, "right-sized", sustainable.

Devastating assessment 😅

Hey Chris Luxon, remind me again how much solar energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

We are well familiar with this here 😞 But yes, we need to be prepared for more. Stand together ✊️

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The result in Gorton and Denton shows that Greens can win anywhere. Not just in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. But we can win in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, France, Spain, Brazil and everywhere else. So join your Green Party in your country today!

Wild that we are talking about mining seabeds and conservation estate, while piling landfills with concentrated rare earth minerals from consumer electronics. This is not a sustainable system.

“Your monthly power charges are going up because our shareholders wanted more money and the government prefers a fossil-fuel based energy strategy”

They are playing some bangers at the gate in Wellington Airport 💚

This is the way 💛

Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

Well worth a watch if you have a bit of time - infuriating and hair raising

Be the change you want to see in the world! Be like Connor :)

Nooooo!!!!

When government ministers dismiss deadly storm events as "just weather", as Mark Mitchell did on RNZ just now, they reveal themselves to be unfit for government. It's thinly veiled climate denial.

The NZ government canning the $6bn disaster resilience fund, Three Waters and social development is a return to "Nobody is coming to help you". The international move away from governance as something that materially benefits communities. Austerity measures. A wider return to "sucks to be you".

???? The issue is not that people are not incentivised to work. It is a) there are no jobs, and b) people have care responsibilities. This is ridiculous, sorry 😞 I thought TOP were supposed to be progressive

Honestly such good news. We deserve a bit of good news! 🧵

Spot on as ever 👌 @tworuru.com

Trees please!!!! Yussss 💚

We should do this! I wonder how many people that would be.

We heard constantly about lockdown harms but never about the 10 million orphaned by opening up with unmitigated schools. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Meth use has nearly doubled in two years!!!

This is such bs from the government. While the rest of the world gets on with solar, wind and other forms of renewable distributed generation, we go further and further backwards. I hate it. We're the dumping ground for the world's sunset industries.

Just so we're all totally clear here. Everyone has to pay more because this government scrapped projects for electrification, ignored advice from the sector on transitioning off gas, and wants to build a terminal that is unlikely to be usable for $1 billion plus - money they said we didn't have.

If you are talking about increasing the cost of electricity, and not investing in distributed, resilient solar and battery capacity, nor electrification of transport in multi modes, you don’t understand the problem and should not be anywhere near power (pun absofuckinglutely intended)

I mean, I get the civility thing and listening to other points of view, and not being divisive but these people are fucking morons.

We can have good things, I hope. Important to remember that not all dire predictions necessarily come true - Lorde knows we have enough to worry about, so it's great to hear that maybe this one is not coming to fruition

It gets worse. While (a few) households save up the megabucks, Government does the same! The NZ Govt is not in debt according to any sensible measure. So, Govt and wealthy households stack up savings while our infra falls apart, kids go hungry, teeth go rotten, etc. Make it make sense. [2/n]

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What if polluters could demand a payout just for being told to stop polluting? That’s what the Government is planning in its rewrite of the RMA. New Zealanders should never have to pay companies to stop polluting drinking water, cutting down forests killing wildlife.

#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵

In the weekend we were at an older relative's house, and I could not BELIEVE how bloody comfortable their big leather armchairs were. Unbelievable!!! I am old, I want comfort 😭 But I don't want to sit by myself - is there such a thing as a comfy couch? Like really comfy?

URGENT HELP! Final week to help fund vital Whale Rescue Equipment for Project Jonah - Givealittle New Zealand givealittle.co.nz/cause/whale-...

It's a sweary day, not just me xx

The present US regime won't keep any "deal" it signs, but instead regards making such a deal as a sign that you are a mark who can be intimidated. Dealing with them is simply stupid and pointless.

"I watched colleagues run back and forth to the Beehive for approval, watched ... experts be removed from writing teams in favour of corporate resource creators, and saw ... documents change radically ... in response to the latest red-pen notes from ministers." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...