Class A Team

Awesome, thanks pier that.

I’ll have a good read through those.

Agreed, but it behooves me to have the information when/if asked.

Cheers.

I’ll worry about how to package the info; so that a politician can digest it. But if it is not technically possible; I want to be able to reference some studies that back me up.

Or $30 product, and “sorry we don’t ship to your location”

Or the fairly regular $30 product with $75 shipping.

Something something magical shell history

Well it is a hypothesis that needs testing…

You are asking two how to questions “combat climate change” and “reduce emissions”

To realistically combat climate change:

• Admit that we need to try geoengineering (we are already doing this with all the CO₂ and CH₄ going into the atmosphere)
• Weather it is SO₂ injection or cloud seeding to artificially increase the albido; we need to reduce incident solar radiation to give us a few more decades to actually reduce emissions

To reduce emissions:

• Tackle the biggest emissions first.
• Electrification of the passenger fleet; that means batteries. Keep fuel cells for heavy transport (maybe)
• Encourage electric biking. And other micro-mobility. Along with better public transport.
• Normalise a historical style diet, meat is a treat only once or twice a week.
• Reduce concrete construction; keep it for the important things like the foundations.
• Reduce the practice of packaging everything in plastic; again keep it for the important things only like electrical insulation.
• Massive ramp up of solar and wind around the world.
• Where we use fossil fuels, ask is this important enough to use FF here?

Carbon taxes:

• Tax CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent) at a reasonable rate to encourage all of the reduction measures.
• At less than $65NZD/T the cost is too low to encourage significant movement on the issues.
• Have a ratcheting scheme in the CO₂ market, i.e. add $5-8/yr/T for CO₂e; in 10 years the price will be between $110-140/T. At the 10yr mark, make the ratchet $10-15/yr/T.
• Add a carbon tariff; basically make it more expensive to buy from countries that are not pulling their weight.
• Be careful not to double tax, this is important for buy in from the public. i.e. the carbon tax on fuel should be exempt from sales tax, taxing a tax is a great way to alienate people.

Little pills

The comparison is looking very favorable to Australia currently.

If you use the thousands of kiwis, moving there permanently, every month as a yardstick.

Ah yes; the tactical wees discussion.

“Yes, I know you don’t need to go right now; but we are going to be in the car for 30 - 40 minutes; go to the toilet now please!”

Some of us like it when we are not mentioned…maps without NZ (sorry for the Reddit link)

You are not; but they are not really assholes. They are optimising for some outcome that they want, with inferior tools/mechanisms. Depending on age, their brain runs on emotion most of the time, logic is a distant second place.

In saying all of that…they can seem like assholes in the moment!!!

Market research?

It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again.

I’ll put in a word for my preferred sport here.

My super energetic boy has been rock climbing since 7.

Strength, flexibility, balance, self confidence, progression is based on solving problems, climbs are graded.

I doubt it, I think the Miraka plant is produces mostly primary products not the secondary stuff.

Pretty sure I know the factory that this butter comes from. The Miraka plant; north of Taupō. Geothermally powered, restricts it to a relatively small region in NZ.

I assumed that they are using some foreign keyboard.

Didn’t take long to parse the “th” from the symbol. Though sometimes it catches me and reads as a “p”

Ancestry.com was founded in 1997… 20 years seems appropriate