by Cimino | 18 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Term of office
Act now and Aotearoa could own Democracy Day 2021 With Donald Trump’s best prospects now being immediate resignation and a prompt Mike Pence pardon, the United States’ flawed democracy might now survive long enough to face redemption. Shy seven weeks, it is 20 years...
by Cimino | 7 Sep 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Democracy index, Direct democracy, Pandemic, Term of office
25% less democracy doesn’t equate to 25% less can-kicking Blamed for everything from the lack of climate-action mobilisation to the lack of a capital gains tax, to the failure to raise the retirement age, the three-year parliamentary term—it is persistently...
by Cimino | 14 Aug 2020 | Action plan, Climate mobilisation, Sea-level rise
$30 million Mahurangi action plan $3 million over 5 years seemed, for a moment there in 2004, as though all the Mahurangi Harbour’s Christmases had come at once. Even in today’s money, $9.06 million is more than twice the 2004 amount, but nor, back then, does...
by Cimino | 5 Jul 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Dredging
Depraved indifference to humanity and the home planet Aotearoa has demonstrated that democracy can work. Globally, however, covid-19 demonstrates the deadly degree to which governmental and intergovernmental governance, democratic or otherwise, is grossly...
by Cimino | 14 Jun 2020 | Climate brinksmanship, Climate mobilisation
Making molehills out of mobilisation mountains What should have been no worse than a four-thousand-death epidemic is determinedly on its way to becoming an at-least-four-million-death pandemic—a cruel and unnecessary global demonstration of the...
by Cimino | 6 Jun 2020 | Climate mobilisation
Democratic climate-action mobilisation or martial law That thatoriginally published sans grammatical double-copula which should have been one of the most influential books of all time ranks 302 209 places behind Nevil Shute’s On the Beach of Amazon’s best...
by Cimino | 27 May 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Coalition democratisation, Pandemic
Every global thing to gain by taking coalition initiative Messiah complex is a label few would wish have bestowed. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would likely rather run a Walker mileOlympian Sir John George Walker was the first person to run the mile in under 3:50...
by Cimino | 9 May 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Moratorium on population, Pandemic
Last habitable landmass must lead covid–climate mobilisation Last habitable landmass to emerge, and to be inhabited, Aotearoa, must now play to its strengths by demonstrating life richly lived, after zero-carbon, and covid-19. Must, because New Zealanders, young and...
by Cimino | 27 Apr 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Pandemic
covid-19 climate and bird-flu-strength-pandemic clarion call Spain, officially, has had not quite 0.5% of its population infected by covid-19, about a third of the rate the maligned country experienced during the 1918 Pandemic. But 10% of those undeserving more than...
