Essay by Eric Worrall
First Published on JoNova; “… How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists? …”. Apparently if you are a climate skeptic you are somehow similar to a terrorist radical who promotes mass murder, and part of an effort to “… cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves …”.
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The lessons of COVID are in many ways the same as the lessons of climate change.
When crisis is upon us, we cannot and will not solve these issues on our own.
The next pandemic will not be prevented by one country’s efforts but by all of ours. Climate action will only ever be as successful as the least committed country, as they pull down the ambition of the collective.
I am not suggesting though that we rely on the goodwill of others to make progress.
We need a dual strategy. One where we push for collective effort but we also use our multilateral tools to make progress.
That’s why on pandemic preparedness we support efforts to develop a new global health legal instrument, strengthened international health regulations and a strong and empowered World Health Organization.
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On March 15, 2019, New Zealand experienced a horrific terrorist attack on its Muslim community.
More than 50 people were killed as they prayed. The attack was live-streamed on a popular social media platform in an effort to gain notoriety, and to spread hate.
At that time, the ability to thwart those goals was limited. And the chances of Government alone being able to resolve this gap was equally challenging.
That’s why, alongside President Emmanuel Macron, we created the Christchurch Call to Action.
The Call community has worked together to address terrorism and violent extremist content online. As this important work progresses, we have demonstrated the impact we can have by working together collaboratively.
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This week we launched an initiative alongside companies and non-profits to help improve research and understanding of how a person’s online experiences are curated by automated processes. This will also be important in understanding more about mis and disinformation online. A challenge that we must as leaders address.
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As leaders, we are rightly concerned that even those most light-touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as being hostile to the values of free speech we value so highly.
But while I cannot tell you today what the answer is to this challenge, I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it. To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.
After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble? How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists? How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld, when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
The weapons may be different but the goals of those who perpetuate them are often the same. To cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves. To disband communities. To collapse the collective strength of countries who work together.
But we have an opportunity here to ensure that these particular weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare.
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Read more: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/full-speech-jacinda-ardern-addresses-un-general-assembly.html
Video of Prime Minister Ardern’s speech;
Ardern claims she wants to help people defend themselves, but she has done very little to prevent another massacre like the Christchurch Muslim massacre of 2019, which New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern cites as her justification for her proposed crackdown on free speech and climate skepticism.
Ardern, who was elected Prime Minister in 2017, two years before the massacre, has maintained and strengthened New Zealand’s strict gun laws, laws which left the law abiding victims of the 2019 massacre disarmed and helpless to defend themselves against an armed madman. It took New Zealand police 18 minutes from the first emergency call to locate and apprehend the murderer, as he was driving to his third mosque.
Interchange her words for those of the arch Nazi Dr. Goebbels and his belief about Jews.
She can be replaced.
Leaders who define challenges and them accept them are charlatans. The challenges in life define themselves and always have. Adept leaders accept those challenges, not make believe ones. A real challenge facing New Zealand is the Taupo super volcano that has suddenly had 700 earthquakes and measurable uplift in its caldera.
And what do we hear from their “Leader”? Crickets.
Pick one, the volcano or the climate. She can get back to us with her plan to control either one. Her choice.
She can’t control either, of course, but she CAN plan to deal with fall-out from the more immediate threat of a major volcanic eruption.
Exactly, rho. 👍
The last Taupo eruption was in 186 AD and the effects were felt all around the world .
It was the largest eruption on the earth for the last 5000 years .
Be careful what you wish for .
The ash cloud could trigger an ice age or at least a very cold growing climate for agriculture world wide .
Let Putin annex them instead of Ukraine.
Why does this sound SO MUCH like a religious zealot?
We must kill the people who question our dogma because they are a danger to ( fill in the blank )
Look, I am skeptical of a great deal when it comes to CO2 being the doom and gloom. However – if you were to come with SANE plans to move away from CO2 energy sources, such as nuclear reactors. At least we COULD have a conversation.
Instead. Burn them at the stake, and lets have an energy crisis like Europe mentality is just foolish.
The cheaper the energy the more prosperous the people.
Agreed, mostly. But sorry, they actually need to support their claims before ANY kind of “energy transition” is justified.
Not only are their claims unsupported by any empirical evidence, but they couldn’t make any measurable impact on their imaginary problem EVEN IF it WAS real, because IF it WAS real, only an impact on GLOBAL emissions would matter.
Since China, India, and other so-called “developing” nations are RAPIDLY RAMPING UP *their* emissions, the simple FACT is that GLOBAL emissions WILL continue to climb. [NOT that it matters, because CO2 doesn’t drive the Earth’s climate. ]
Which all goes to underscore the basic reality these Eco-Nazi fanatics are in denial about – the only thing humanity can do about the ‘climate’ is the only thing humanity could ever do about it, and the only thing humanity will ever BE able to do about it in the future. And that is, ADAPT to the changes THAT ACTUALLY OCCUR.
“After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble?”
Wow, projection seems to be
the go-to ‘weapon’ of witless radical left politcos like Ardern. She even managed to use the word “noble” to underscore it.
As I noted four years ago, increasing atmospheric global CO2 is causing greater growth not only to plants, but to the teeth of the people born after about 1970. Children now at school really need orthodontic advice to manage this growth.
Jacinda is a showcase full of this teeth effect. Unmanaged for faster growth, her teeth are now so massive that she has trouble speaking properly. This is the case even for those rare events when she says something that people can understand. Geoff S
Jacinda Ardern has history in subverting the truth. Her government set up a NZ$55 million fund to make grants to our main stream media organisations. The only condition is that they are required to promote the Treaty of Waitangi as a partnership between the British crown and our indigenous people, the Maori.
The significance of the partnership framing is that it legitimised her government current and active project to replace universal and equal suffrage with 50/50 cogovernance. This means at all levels from national to local government 50% of the vote is by the non Maori population (83% of our population) and the other 50% of the power is held by unelected Maori chiefs.
Despite her fine words Jacinda Ardern is a traitor to democracy. Her woke liberal government can do this by a simple majority because our constitutional safeguards are so weak. I wish we had a US style constitution.
The time of inquisition is over !
typical from people who don’t know this subject and cannot even give a proper definition what is the climate !
Science, generally speaking, is not frozen for ever , but evolves with new discoveries and new data !
Today, the climate model of IPCC diverges from the reality and should be replaced by something different which reflects the current measurements …
What she’s doing here is actually, simply, admitting to being A Girl/Woman.Because and classically and due to their tendency to ‘make babies’, girls ‘go long’ and strong on the Precautionary Principle.(PP)
Because of the immense emotional bond they have with their babies, they really do go out of the way not to damage the baby and break that bond. Becuase it will hurt, physically as well as emotionally
And they take the PP with them everywhere they go – even into the prime Ministers official residence/office
Another thing they do when looking after their baby, is use Guilt as a device to teach, manage and control the child.
They will say “Oh no little Michael/James/Al, just look how naughty you’ve been – Just You Wait Till Your Father Gets Home.
Guilt and fear are instilled into the child as to what sort of punishment ‘father’ will dispense.
With any luck and certainly in Ye Goode Olde Dayes and on his arrival, father would engage his GSOH, make a joke of it and defuse the situation in an instant.
(The Joke is the important part – it in fact how we learn and remember things – by attaching ‘something silly’ to the occasion/event)
That is also how Mono-atheism works.
When there is only one God, whoever has set himself up as ‘deputy’ or right-hand-man down here on earth (typically The King) – said person will get people to bend to his will by asserting that they will be punished if/when they get to ‘heaven’
That only works when there is one God – and as in the mother & child situation there can only be one real father.
Hence King Knut from Olde England realised that and why he became a ‘Christian’ – doing so gave him the power of God. And holy cow, was it a bloodthirsty god or what.
Somehow and bit like the trashing of the 2nd law inside the Gas Effect – he picked and chose the bits he liked.
Now do we see what’s Ahern is doing.
a/ Being extremely cautious with regard her babies (the electorate), telling them they did wrong with regard the climate
b/ Is now saying (by appealing to the higher authority than she has or wants to have = the UN) wait till your father gets home to deliver you a punishment
Just like a young mother dealing with an errant child
See The Fail there… SHE is supposed to be The Authority.
IOW: She is admitting with total candour and crystal clarity that she in not fit for the job she is in.
Next step hun – Realise what you’ve just said, then, close the door on your way out and don’t come back
She’s the living version of the crazy girlfriend meme.
funny they partnered with macaroon for the terror stunt
when french were the ones did the First NZ terror act by blowing Rainbow warrior up IN harbour of NZ
ah but then
he n she are WEF young leaders…
This ditz has been well and truly WEFified. Fortunately she will be out at the next NZ election.
Cannot or will not?
I think you’ve just told us your answer to “this challenge”
“How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?” How do you tackle the Martian invasion if people do not believe Martians exist?
Censorship is ultimately self-defeating. All it does is build suspicion of the regime while driving underground the discussion of alternate points of view.
They are equating Climate Skeptics with mass murderers. This needs to stop and stop right now.
They keep on telegraphing their opinion that they are special and view the rest of us as their serfs. Soon they will make themselves as royalty and be able to put their children in their place.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water….
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