the slides from my recent presentation at Te herenga waka Victoria University Wellington energy net zero food and tooth fairy dept seminar 24Download
Please NZ government don’t trash our hard won barely adequate freshwater protection
"The consequences of these proposed changes would be grave, setting the country and the public back decades in the work to protect and restore the health of waterways and locking in damage where tipping points are reached. The impacts on the health of our natural environment, our own health, our social and cultural well-being, and... Continue Reading →
Cooling discourses and Agnosis – creating ignorance, these are environmental crimes that go unpunished
Cooling discourses are temporary stupefying discourses that facilitate a state of ignorance, or agnosis so that harmful activity can continue or resume unopposed. This is such a cool insight is to the spin business used to allow companies and individuals to harm all of us, and the other life we share the planet with. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1741659020973723?src=getftr
Open letter to PM on dropping freshwater protection
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Rickety rankings, a warning to be cautious
Take a look at what wasn't included. e.g "For example, the director of two industry organizations representing dairy farmers in New Zealand has used the country's high ranking in the Legatum Prosperity Index (LPI) to argue that New Zealand's agricultural industry has a lower environmental impact than other countries (Rowarth, 2021), despite decades of scientific... Continue Reading →
I’m a co-author on this new paper. World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
Our Climate crisis is just one of many other symptoms of overshoot and overshoot is our behavioural crisis. In this paper we explore what we consider to be three critical drivers in the creation and continuation of the human behavioural crisis. The behaviours behind overshoot are now actively promoted and exacerbated by social, economic and... Continue Reading →
Conference presentations from Day 1 of the Beyond Growth Conference held in Wellington on the weekend
My bit on net zero and decarbonising energy delusions starts at 55.45 mins Beyond growth: what can we learn from the international movement? Opening reflections with Dr Marta Conde, Dr Timothée Parrique, Dr Mike Joy and Dr Jack Santa Barbara. What can the degrowth movement in Aotearoa learn from and offer te ao Māori? An... Continue Reading →
Freshwater for life 