Climate Matters

Beware the “externality” – Externalities and wide-boundary thinking – privatising profits and socialising costs – looking in the mirror – there’s no such place as “Away” – is the PM externalising again? – the politics of externalities – Peak indifference revisited – Surely we can’t extrernalise time – Bean counting and the meaning of lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ745eyky6Q -...

Forestry and flooding – lessons from the 2025 Tasman extreme storms – how good are we at learning from history – Nelson’s “right tree right place” strategy – is a climate strategy magic wand a magic myth?

energy and the economy - minerals and the economy - water and the economy - gravel and the economy - the climate crisis and the economy - “the economy” and the economyhttps://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-148 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xW3oveI8Q1xAjlsliozXTDv5yPfx5OSG/view...

Morgan Williamms former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment – background the NZ river flood management – changing nature of weather events and river behaviour under climate change – flood planning in the Nelson Tasman region – outline of a wide-boundary regional strategy towards flood management - storm and flood warning systems - key takeaways: it’s a challenge we can plan for:...

Obligations of the New Zealand media in reporting the climate emergency – “deliberative democracy 101” – how will deliberative democracy manifest itself in the Reality of Everything Symposium? – how will the key messages ROE symposium be propagated beyond the event itself? – final take-home messageshttps://events.humanitix.com/the-reality-of-everything-symposium...

“How quickly can we add renewable energy?” is the wrong question - From the “can you believe it?” files: when chess and climate collide - Pioneering EV research - Insightful stocktake of NZ energy. - More from the “can you believe it?” files: ancient stingless bees - Do listen to the clever, poignant, “the very first music.” 2 min 43 s. - Inspired basic plant monitoring technology to enhance...

UK government released its hard-hitting “Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security” report – food security in New Zealand – a Polycrisis perspective on the economy – Catherine’s spell form a “Magic Polycrisis Wand”. https://events.humanitix.com/the-reality-of-everything-symposium https://www.thelentilintervention.org/ https://anuncommonland.substack.com/...

Seeing things different ways - A climate game that doesn’t feel like a game... - Reminder: poetry competition - Another way fossil fuels gain from AI - Be amazed: Craig Tindale talks with Nate Hagens - Have a serious laugh: an EV view of fossil fuel cars - BlackRock keeps playing NZ government for suckers https://climatemattersnz.substack.com/p/climate-matters-146...

“Love letter to the World” poetry competition results, citations from the judges and each poem read out – mostly by the poets.https://www.resilienz.co.nz/love-letterhttps://www.chiasisters.co.nz/pages/ourstory?srsltid=AfmBOopTtCHfHgxmyOrXujEnNicr_iU25yM3LuXNN4Ku-Ve2rgQMZXoWhttps://www.lighthouseaotearoa.org.nz/

Reality of Everything Symposium – meaning of “Polycrisis” – UK National Emergency briefing – joining the symposium – key take away mesageshttps://events.humanitix.com/the-reality-of-everything-symposiumhttps://www.thelentilintervention.org/https://anuncommonland.substack.com/https://www.resilience.org/https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/