A new study by AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics shows that using Large Language Models like Bing Chat as a source of information for deciding how to vote is a very bad idea.

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/bing-chat-election-2023/ #nzpol 

 New research shows New Zealanders are hesitant to speak up for nature  https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/speak-up-for-nature-research/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-61165&utm_source=mastodon
#nature #research #nzpol #newzealand 

 "Politics is a row of buckets everyone is trying to fill. Poverty, the cost of living, healthcare, crime, transport ... and what about the climate?

Climate change is not another bucket.

It’s a hole in every bucket. You can’t fill any of them unless you patch the climate-change hole.” https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-wilson-5-takeaways-from-the-big-climate-change-and-business-conference/VYKZAKAVV5CTDL2B7LPNLUVIC4/
#climatechange #nzpol #climate #costofliving #education #health #newzealand 

 We need to help people see the big picture. 

The reason people can believe that everything is going to be OK is because they don’t comprehend all the different things that are going wrong simultaneously, nor how seriously these things are going wrong. https://wraltechwire.com/2023/09/29/just-how-bad-is-climate-change-its-worse-than-you-think-says-doomsday-author/ #climate #biodiversity #extinction #nz #nzpol 

 If we are nature, then a burning climate needs a super hot climate minister. Seriously, 
join the call on James James Shaw to grow his hair to look like this photoshopped image and get that climate action sizzling!

https://chng.it/PbBsm5ZhbQ 

 There are some very good reasons to oppose this scheme.

- it incentivises waste production 
- toxic pollution and climate emissions 
- toxic ash disposal
- more trucking of rubbish

The burning question on waste to energy incineration 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018907043/the-burning-question-on-rubbish 

#nzpol #newzealand #climatechange #waste #ToxicWaste #w2e #wastetoenergy #Incineration 

 Who parks like that??

These big Utes and SUVs should be banned from our towns and cities.

https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/111/077/367/956/376/917/original/d4a423f075394225.jpeg 

 Great to see Jack Tame holding David Seymour to account for the cynical inconsistency in his policy of focusing on ‘benefit fraud’ while ignoring tax fraud. 

#QandA #nzpol 

 The fertiliser cap could survive a change in Govt, finds Stuff.

Something to hold National to if they form a Govt.

The cap on sytnthetic nitrogen fertiliser use helps protect rivers and is one of the only measures in place to reduce dairy emissions.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/132815785/national-party-breaks-with-farming-industry-on-key-climate-issues #climatechange #nzpol #newzealand #rivers #water #climate 

 Previously unreported documents show what Exxon said publicly about climate change was very different from how it approached the issue after 2006

Climate criminals.

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af

#MakeOilHistory #climatechange #climatecrisis #exxon #exxonknew 

 National's new agriculture policy would be a disaster for New Zealand.

More climate pollution, more cows in mud, more river pollution, more nitrate contamination of drinking water and the return of barbaric live animal exports.

#TooManyCows #nzpol #newzealand 

 Despite the worsening climate crisis, Chris Luxon says he will open up NZ for new oil and gas exploration. 

Ever the defender of oil industry profits. 

#climatechange #nzpol #climatecrisis

https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/111/061/145/312/258/369/original/87ee77464909e05e.png 

 Meet the shadowy global network vilifying Climate Protesters 

For decades, the Atlas Network has used its reach and influence to spread conservative philosophy—and criminalise climate protest.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters via @a36c86a6 

#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #peoplepower #activism #greenpeace 

 If you're wondering why, in the #ClimateCrisis, with Dairy being NZ's biggest climate polluter, there's still no real Govt regulation to curb dairy emissions...

Here's Russel Norman on predatory delay of climate action by Fonterra, DairyNZ and Federated Farmers https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/predatory-delay-climate-action-fonterra-dairynz-federated-farmers/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-59676&utm_campaign=&utm_source=mastodon

#climatechange #newzealand #agriculture #farming #food #foodie #nz #nzpol #greenpeace #eco 

 It's shocking that neither of the major political parties has a plan to deal with the fact that up to 100 cases of bowel cancer - and 41 deaths - may be caused by nitrate-contaminated drinking water each year in rural NZ. 
#TooManyCows #nzpol
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/drinking-water-nitrate-contamination-may-cause-40-nz-deaths-a-year-study/XKDS4FA44SPNEGKGZNWLS7VNWA/ via @b25f0dec 

#nzpol #newzealand #cancer #toomanycows 

 In Christchurch’s ‘cars versus bikes’ tribal war … “The whole bikelash culture war comes from the lobbyists.”

Sensible people know that more protected cycleways are good for everyone, and bikes are #ClimateAction!

https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/350068247/christchurchs-cars-v-bikes-tribal-war-or-manufactured-outrage

#bike #cycle #nz #newzealand #climate 

 The coalition of chaos. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/election-2023/497636/act-s-david-seymour-floats-confidence-only-partnership-no-supply

#nzpol #nz #newzealand #elections 

 Oil companies are using sport to greenwash their filthy image and should not be allowed to sponsor the Rugby World Cup, says former Australia captain David Pocock

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66723726

#rugby #RugbyWorldCup #sport #RWC #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis 

 This election year, NZ voters should beware of reading too much into the political polls

https://theconversation.com/this-election-year-nz-voters-should-beware-of-reading-too-much-into-the-political-polls-198508

#nzpol #election2023 #NZelection23 #nz #newzealand 

 The new route would allow thousands of Wellingtonians to safely cycle to their store, and the retailer simply will not stand for it.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/07-09-2023/plucky-foodstuffs-takes-bold-stand-against-children-on-bikes #nz #nzpol #newzealand #food #bike #bicycle #bikelife #bikelane