Climate and neoliberalism
Dogma dictates it’s okay for corporations, but not for governments to plan
Despite predictably shirking population, the pope’s heroic climate encyclical will surely ratchet up resolve for meaningful global action. Crucially, Pope Francis calls out cap and trade, which, until recently, few dared question, it being the crux of the sacrosanct,...
Fossil fuel fuse and the mother of all unintended consequences
It happened somewhere between the mastery of fire a million and a half years ago, and today’s rampant exploitation of fossil fuel reserves. Practiced judiciously, and to jumpstart sustainable energy technologies, and by a sustainable population, the burning of a...
Mahurangi Magazine illustrates the dolphin and the dole queue
Hon David Cunliffe Member of Parliament for New Lynn Labour Party economic development and associate finance spokesman Clean-tech cluster chairman Titirangi War Memorial Hall 23 June 2012 Since I became a father, everything I did before seems rather shallow and...
No time to lose picking winners
Dogma continues to dog civilisation. An example is the market-forces mantra that governments should resile from picking winners, because they invariably get it wrong. Such dogma flies in the face of the wealth of examples of governments getting it gloriously and...