Our paper on the way we subsidise harmful practices by turning a blind eye to the harm done DOI: 10.26686/pq.v18i4.8015 joy-marriot-chapple-2022-pq-levelling-the-grazing-paddockDownload https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/article/view/8015
Overshoot and our options for a liveable future
My chapter in the 2023 Kiwi diary https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365447763_Overshoot_and_our_options_for_a_liveable_future
It’s not just a climate crisis – planet critical podcast
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/its-not-just-a-climate-crisis-mike?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share#details My interview with Rachel Donald at planet critical
Giving away our best water
Water bottling companies are getting our very best water for free — from deep, uncontaminated bores — while a large and growing number of us get nitrate-contaminated drinking water through municipal supplies https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/giving-away-our-best-water#c-5515
Nicola Grigg: Oh, “Mike Misery”—”Dr Mike Misery”!
Question No. 8—Environment 8. Hon EUGENIE SAGE (Green)(remote) to the Minister for the Environment: Talofa, Mr Speaker. Thank you. Is dilution the solution to agricultural nitrate pollution, or is there a need to reduce nitrate leaching into groundwater in regions such as Canterbury to reduce risks to drinking water and freshwater from farmed areas? Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister... Continue Reading →
I hope that the policymakers involved in the current revamp of environmental policy remember the words of Winston Churchill: ‘Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’
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We are the problem. My earthday talk for 350.org.nz and Fridays for Future
Its earth day today April 22nd but more importantly just three days three days ago was New Zealand’s ecological overshoot day! So, starting from January 1 until April 19 2022 we lived within our planetary life supporting system means, but that ended last Tuesday. Now every day until the end of the year we go... Continue Reading →
Freshwater for life 