Kakapo and Grommets
When do you have to choose between saving a kakapo and inserting a grommet in a child’s ear? When you are a government.
Tag: economy
Compromised
I finally got some work to do – a good thing! Or a bad thing? Because the work I do is fundamentally about growing the economy, which I don’t believe in. How do I deal with being compromised?
Things I Don’t Understand (2)
Why has NZ repaired a bell tower for $10 million, then fired the only person who can ring the bells? And why has Fonterra sold off all its added value products? So many mysteries in todays world…
Tourism saves the economy, or not – a rant
Tourism – a nightmare before COVID, what will return once the COVID nightmare ends?
Saving & fighting
Do we need to ‘save the economy’ in COVID times? Do we need to ‘save the planet’ in the face of climate change? I hypothesise that what we really want is to ‘save humanity’.
The price is wrong
Which freedoms will we get when we move to Level 2? Hopes of domestic tourism are rising. People want to travel and businesses want custom. Will they have to reduce prices which supposedly got too expensive when it was an international market?