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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Wise Response Society Inc. Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025 Monday 4th August 2025, 3.00pm On-line onlyhttps://aut.zoom.us/j/95595295186 Agenda Welcome and Apologies Minutes of 2024 AGM Chairperson’s Report Financial Report Election of officers. Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Committee Members Re-registration as a charitable society (vote, election of contact person to companies office) General Business relevant …
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, …
If you’re interested in knowing more about the concept of limits to growth, come along to this panel discussion (including at least an hour for questions and discussion). The Zoom link is here: https://otago.zoom.us/j/97730765211?pwd=6FeSWJWVKoVubl8xMNnsgSWeYa0Mq9.1 Password: 333060 Limits to Growth in Today’s World (but don’t look up) A Panel Discussion organised by Wise Response Where: St …
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In an article published on Interest.co.nz Jack Santa Barbara highlights the recent report on Planetary Solvency from The University of Exeter. By Jack Santa Barbara Some actuaries at the University of Exeter in the UK have partnered with a group of earth scientists to examine what they term “planetary solvency.” Their report states: “Planetary Solvency …
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 …
A new book from Lars Larsen focuses attention on what comes before oil depletion; the end of exports from oil producing nations. In the same way as flooding of coastal cities was the focus of climate change when first understood, whilst the more immediate impacts of floods, hurricanes, droughts and fires was less well considered, …
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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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