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Red Pill Poet's avatar

“Managed retreat historically focused on removal due to a natural disaster, now it will be pre-emptive based on climate change modelling.” — How very Minority Report'ish precrime of them! Anything for the public good.

From Kate Green's article: “But Bolger said claims he acted with bias were nonsense, and as a Kāpiti resident himself, when it came to managed retreat he believed in the science.” — With all due respect to Kate Green, I believe she misspelled science. I believe “$cience” is the correct spelling.

Is it T-shirt time yet? Front: “Wellbeing”. Back: “Brought to you / by the people / who want you dead!”

The timing of Rosa Koire's demise, with respect to operations like “managed retreat”, reminds me of the timing of Kary Mullis's death, with respect to “PCR testing” … the timing of both were as good for the forces of evil, as they were bad for the forces of good.

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Warren Ross's avatar

Our political class and their dutiful bureaucrats are becoming increasing skilled at non-consultation using using their Rand Delphi / IAP2 methods. This is a much more dangerous planet than any of us realised. The one thing we must not do is seek to understand or ask what is causing these problems or to contextualise them. A short memory of past is also an aid in presenting every minor event as novel.

Secrecy around important decisions such as you have highlighted here, Kate, are the norm. To ask questions makes one annoying at best or if you ask a good question, a conspiracy theorist. We are meant to be merely fearful and reactive.

Here's a theory. You mention the 2023 UN Adaptation Gap Report and this statement: "Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed

states". On page 48, 55 reference is made to the term 'fiscal space" which relates to funds that are expected to be set aside to meet climate change responsibilities. This is a large part of what the Conference of Parties (COP 28) meetings are about where the world's leading financial organizations come together to discuss predation on countries that can't meet their climate targets. And here is the trick. As the climate problem is for the large part artificial, the amount of money to fix any problem can be as big as the COP players and any compliant or subject government wants them to be. The IMF is a player here too with its Special Drawing Rights.

This is about building this new world "Back Better". One problem is that many of us remember an old world where our politicians were expected to at least pretend they were serving our interests. Now we are getting complete disdain.

The focus is on the young, as Ben Williamson described, this master class is building a new world with people to fit in it. The problem is that people of my generation don't fit it at all. The other problem is that we have the property that all of this Managed Retreat is designed to take. So they have to get it from us first. The young have already been dispossessed by usurious banks and the lending policies they have allowed to indulge in.

Thanks for your work, Kate. It is very important. Good luck the people in Kapiti. We are with you in spirit and friendship. Our traitorous leadership must NOT be allowed to get away with this. Their time is over.

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