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I recently went to a high powered presentation in the largest high rise commercial building in Auckland put on by Bell Gully a public spirited law firm. The aim was to have the three main political partys state their goals regarding Climate Change to a professional audience, so that we could obtain a more coherent understanding of how NZ was going to face the growing climate crisis. The meeting was run by the Environmental Defence Society, an aging group of baby boomers, who are either judges, ex judiciary, solicitors and lawyers, who have been involved with legislation over the last 40 years to keep NZ as green as possible, from ... a 'blue green perspective. The three main parties were represented by Jeanette Fitzsimmonds of the NZ Greens, Nick Smith of the National Party and David Parker of the Labour Party, the present Government Minister of Climate Change. Also as a moderator was Peter Nielsen of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development. This was the first time these three politicians had come together to discuss the challenges ahead. What became very obvious, was the immaturity of the National and to a lesser degree the Labour party politician. Here was an audience wanting to know how we as a united country can solve the impending challenges and we have petty political games and point scoring. When we scrutinise the global environment, only the Greens have any insights to what are the escalating problems, with Labour, trying to catch up and National, who have been mesmerised by the Republican party rhetoric out of the USA as well as to the conservative Australian governments denial of environmental degradation. What I came away with is that the Environmental Defence Society was looking for a consensus that all politicians will work together in a cross party agreement, this is what the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development was pushing for and yet the sniping of National at Labour showed that the two largest partys in NZ have a long way to go. Both of them do not see the peril that’s coming over the horizon and is actually here yet they are all in the same House of Parliament, why are they not talking to each other? One of the largest causes of greenhouse gasses in NZ are related to our farming practices. These are very much built around “our sacred cows and sacrificial lambs” a subject that conservative carnivores across all political persuasions are not willing to yet face. That includes the Green Party. A fully partisan approach is needed. My prognosis is that by 2012 we will have a government of unity on this issue, where with out collective backs to the wall, humanity in this sector of our planet will all recognise that on spaceship earth, we’ll ALL be crew working diligently for the welfare of our collective survival and the survival of our ship.(kinship). We are being forced into co-operation, because of our inability to see the results of previous unconscious actions. What the politicians from the large partys are yet unable to see is that they all talk of technology being able to solve all our problems, when it is 'consciousness' that will be the leader. Until politicians understand that everything comes down to 'consciousness,' to the subatomic level, to quantum level. The need to learn, to enlighten and communicate ... is via consciousness. When will it happen? Come on you younger generation shake these guys up!
2007 Outlook The Coming of the Surveillance Society? Ordinary but unruly kids with spray cans, could be causing the ccvc (closed circuit video camera) profusion around NZ cities. (Britain has over 4 million of them.) It’s not the hardened criminals who are causing the deployment of this intrusive technology, but brats of kids, running amok with spray cans. Yes, it’s this iritating, petty crime of graffiti that is “becoming the cause” for the surveillance society in NZ. Why do kids get a kick out of defacing and leaving their ‘signature’? A big question, however it must come back to parenting where mothers and fathers need to have a closer loving presence with their children and this also translates to giving them well defined boundaries. Not letting the kids go out without a dialogue as to where they are going, what they are doing, who they are going with and what time they are expected home is ... abandoning them. On top of this, expressing to them clearly where they can not go.
By telling them that you are not wanting them to go to or do certain things, puts a certain responsibility on the child to do as they are commanded as well. Also, and this is very important, the child knows that their parent/s care about them, that their is a bond, that is based on trust and love. Regrettably here in NZ parents who are not involved with their children, and who let their kids out loose with $20 bucks or less, to be 'out of sight, out of mind. ' They are deserting their child, their gift to the world. Parents who bring children into existence must commit to their children's' security, education (learning is a better word) and health. Otherwise why have them?
With many children being born to a single mother, this only acerbates the situation, and NZ has a social problem here, which is glossed over. As the household lives on a Government benefit the child gets subtly indoctrinated with poverty consciousness and when they grow up and determine how the majority of NZers live, which is in basically good decent homes, anger sets in as they see how much they have missed out and you then have a disenfranchise teenage time bomb, wandering the streets. Then of course they are influenced so much by the media, be it local or global, which is based on commercial imperatives, and very little social or even zero consciousness. In a household, especially where TV is used as the baby sitter (parents again not parenting) and children watch hours and hours of telly, it has been estimated by researchers in the USA that by the time a child is 18 they have witnessed up to 40,000 violent acts, most involving death by every means. So, when they go out into the world at large, and by chance find themselves in a stressful situation, (possibly aggravated by alcohol or drugs) they react with what they have been ‘programmed’ with the most ... violence. Yet this above example is vehemently opposed by all the TV and movie media chiefs, they argue emphatically that there is definitely no connection....They are ethically bankrupt! Then there are the music videos ... Many to most are not music with melodies and rhythm but noise and sound. In a democracy where the people own the air waves for the radio and TV frequencies, we rent them out to commercial interests, who then bombard us with a barrage of unadulterated trash. We collectively are so foolish that we allow commercial interests to broadcast crap at our impressionable young kids that have no idea what is right from wrong. They end up lost in a lost world, all because we have elected servants to be the government and who are obviosuly unconsconcious... (to be continued.) With 85 million more kiddies been added to our planet every year, and they find out that not only do they have uncaring/incapable parents, they find that we are bequeathing them a planet that is over heating into a climatic melt down, how can we find ways to let them know they are wanted, cared for and that we are not depriving them a future that is long, successful and fulfilling, where that can love and laugh, play, develop close friendships and grow into the light of their own true selves.? You want the best for your children ... yes? Now we are beginning to witness all these world changes on our large plasma screens in our living room. What do you think we will see? Because it is coming at us in full view! What does the future hold? GreenplanetFM is dedicated to a better world, via participatory democracy and the mobilising of consciousness. With your support it is very possible. And I mean it!
