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Action the best antidote for climate despair
19 November 2021
New Zealand's performance at COP26 was disappointing, but having a say on our emissions redu...
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Renewables a placebo for climate change
06 November 2021
Our collective belief that renewable energy is the cure for fossil fuels may well turn out t...
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The fossil fuel discussion we’re not having
30 October 2021
Let’s stop pretending that a fast enough transition away from fossil fuels is actually under...
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How much money is too much?
30 October 2021
OCD core group member Jack Santa Barbara weighs the value of natural capital against financi...
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Climate change’s biggest myth
15 October 2021
Our Climate Declaration core group member Pat Baskett explains why - if we want even a chanc...
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The climate clock is ticking
29 September 2021
New Zealand is dragging its feet taking action on what's supposed to be an emergency. Our Cl...
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Are there biophysical limits to growth? webinar
09 September 2021
Economic growth has become culturally, politically and institutionally ingrained at a global...
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NZ’s dairy problem: Growing crops to feed animals to feed humans was never economic
09 September 2021
Dairy farming is NZ's biggest climate change problem, and was never a cost-effective way to ...
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What's wrong with NZ's electricity set-up?
22 August 2021
The reason for the recent electricity black-out has deep roots. Our Climate Declaration core...
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Earth Overshoot Day: we're hitting it earlier ever year
29 July 2021
Our ecological deficit has been growing since 1970. Jack Santa Barbara sets why this milesto...
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