Wise Response Society calls for immediate rationing as conflict duration projections lengthen and Australia begins fuel rationing. 9 March 2026 – One week after US-Israeli strikes on Iran triggered the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Wise Response Society warns that the situation has deteriorated significantly since its initial alert on 3rd …
New Zealand’s Fuel Supply Under Direct Threat as Strait of Hormuz Crisis Deepens – Wise Response Calls for Immediate Action 3 March 2026 – The Wise Response Society is warning that the military conflict now disrupting the Strait of Hormuz poses a direct and immediate threat to New Zealand’s fuel supply, and is calling on …
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Wise Response Submission in response to the “Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Ministry for the Environment. 2025. Building New Zealand’s Long-term Resilience to Hazards: Draft Long-term Insights Briefing. Wellington: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.” Available here as a PDF. Press Release as a PDF. Press Release: Government’s “Resilience” Plan is …
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Manifesto of the Wise Response Society The Wise Response Society asserts that profound changes in global priorities and respect for the biosphere are essential for humanity to endure well into the future. Our Current Crisis 1. Existential Threats: Our current way of living causes unprecedented exploitation and damage to critical resources and the biosphere, …
The cost of upgrading water infrastructue (3 Waters) will have to be paid by future New Zealanders. Our children, grand children and great grand children. Councils will have to go into debt to pay for urgently needed infrastructure, and will be forced to pass on the cost to taxpayers and ratepayers. Meanwhile, the government is …
PRESS RELEASE: Fast-track Bill a fraud being perpetrated on all future generations. The Fast-track Bill, if passed, would allow three Ministers, unchallenged and unchecked, to approve the immediate extraction and exhaustion of one-off resources. That is not democracy; democracy allows for reasoned discussion and evidenced debate. In short, democracy is about the greater good. Until …
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Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society Journalism – Call for public funding Press Release from Wise Response Society PRESS RELEASE: Journalism should be about ascertaining truths. Ironically, the need to at least break-even financially, has resulted in …
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PRESS RELEASE: Wise Response Society Slams Climate Change Commission’s Growth Orientation New Zealand, June 26, 2023 – The Wise Response Society, a coalition of scientists, engineers, planners, artists, and sportspeople, has strongly criticized the Climate Change Commission (CCC) for its continued focus on growth despite the undeniable link between growth and increased emissions. In its …
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Breach of the State Services Commissioner’s Code for Standards of Integrity and Conduct Wise Response made two formal complaints about the breach of the State Services Commissioner’s code for Standards of Integrity and Conduct. The first deals with the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) unwillingness to amend their Disclosure framework for Integrated Financial Products. (In that …
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Press release: 14 February, 2022 New Zealand has employed “accounting tricks” to create a target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts that looks far more ambitious than it really is.The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has given the country a “highly insufficient” rating. The net-zero emissions by 2050 target is enshrined in law, but the government’s policies …
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