All Regional and District Councils are required to achieve integrated management of natural and physical resources under the Resource Management Act. Wise Response Society Inc consider that many of the adverse land management and water quality issues we are now experiencing could be avoided or significantly mitigated, if this requirement were being more effectively achieved. …
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Twenty Five years after Scientists called on mankind to halt environmental degradation, a second warning has been issued detailing the dire path that mankind is on. World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice William J. Ripple Christopher Wolf Thomas M. Newsome Mauro Galetti Mohammed Alamgir Eileen Crist Mahmoud I. Mahmoud William F. Laurance …
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Wise Response Society stalwarts Sir Alan Mark and Dugald MacTavish have published an opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times comparing Trumps’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and New Zealand’s current policies. The article can be found here. The article is reproduced below. Big spend-up prolongs carbon party How much practical difference for climate …
Wise Response Society Inc., c/o Alan F. Mark, FRSNZ, KNZM, 205 Wakari Rd., Hon Paula Bennett, Helensburgh, Minister of Climate Change Issues, DUNEDIN. Parliament House, 12 December 2016 WELLINGTON. Your reference 16-m-1360 Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Dear Minister Bennett, We congratulate you on your appointment as Deputy Prime Minister. The purpose of this letter …
The report is available here as a PDF (4MB) “A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on track to experience “an eventual collapse of production and living standards” in the next few …
Wise Response held a public meeting to discuss concerns with a Discussion paper, just released by Minister of Climate Change Issues, Tim Groser, on “New Zealand’s Climate Change Target: Our contribution to the new international climate change agreement.”(PDF) This was in preparation for the meetings to be held nation-wide to consult on New Zealand’s Climate …
Britain’s prime minister, deputy prime minister and leader of the opposition have made a joint declaration on climate change: “Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing the world today. It is not just a threat to the environment, but also to our national and global security, to poverty eradication and economic prosperity.” …
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The manifesto endorsed by The Lancet calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society; human health and wellbeing, threats to the sustainability of our civilisation, and threats to the natural and human-made systems that support us. The aim is to respond to the threats we face: threats …
New research identifies which fossil fuels must remain in the ground to avert global temperature rises over 2C. The study published in The Guardian shows that most coal, half of gas and a third of known oil reserves must remain in the ground and provides solid evidence for fossil fuel divestment.
Research from the University of Melbourne has concluded the Club of Rome’s 1974 ‘ Limits to Growth’ Report is substantially correct in its findings that civilisation will likely collapse sometime this century. The British national daily newspaper “The Guardian“ states that new research from the University of Melbourne confirms that the “book’s forecasts are accurate, 40 years on. If …
