Cows are about 37% and cars are about 7.8%. You’d be getting close to half. Still a huge problem worth solving but not the only ones within agriculture and transport.

The damaging events are on the right hand side of the graph. The right hand side of the graph is where we live now.

Here is a version for local use of the amount of officially declared States of Emergency for climate related reasons

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

Hope youre doing okay and staying safe!!

This is why it’s much more expensive to ignore climate change. How in the hell do you build infrastructure that handles 10x our expected heavy rainfall???

Waking up to some pretty fucking scary images of flooding in Newtown, at the basin, all through Wellington.

Can we please decarbonise? This is the beginning. Our politicians can choose the ending.

Any future govt that gets its act right on electrifying everything will need talented tradies to do it. That’s a bottleneck we could address with your idea!!

Literally stepping into a dream street 🥹🥹🥹 so happy that you’re enjoying it!!

You’re making me cry this is beautiful

Whenever I drive I treat it like I’m operating heavy machinery. Basically my rule of thumb is the person who has the most ability to kill others should always have the most responsibility and care

Totally sincere tone here! I used to bike in the rain with just a jacket… not so fun. After getting rain pants? Made biking in wet weather a breeze. Would recommend it!

If we got a car, this is the car I’d love. It’s just so CUTE

Can’t wait for this election to become the “electrify everything” election.

This is the kind of article that I wish I had written. Fantastic share, thanks Patrick!

Totally agree, but that’s not how it was being discussed as the council was proposing cuts to bike lanes

Sludge Minimisation seems a great idea for reducing waste going into landfill, awesome stuff.

But lol if we want to solve climate change in this city the answer is always the same: more bikes and buses and far, far fewer cars.

AHAHAHAHA OMG the sludge minimisation facility, which is the biggest investment into climate mitigation in the city’s history, will reduce Wellington’s emissions by 0.2%. 2000 tonnes a year.

It will cost $500m, the same as like… what? Half price e-bikes for 166,000 people?

lol. Z is for stuff we are forced to need (diesel) at prices that we can’t afford ($3.89 a litre)

Just recorded me tagging onto the train with my phone like four times… either the trips will be cancelled or I have single handedly solved Metlink’s financial issues

Omg.

I only wear normal clothes biking for three reasons:
- I don’t have any other clothes than my normal clothes
- if I am unsafe cause I don’t wear high vis something has gone truly wrong
- … I bought some high vis just in case but it was the wrong size so I’ve never worn it lol

Beautiful essay from @marcdaalder.bsky.social to enjoy in this morning calm before the storm newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/11/s...

Maybe EOFY and getting the depreciation benefits of investment boost from the last budget?

It would be a dream, wouldn’t it!

I’m gonna do an A/B test of thumbnails on YouTube to try get the video doing better. I’ve always found my life is better when it’s silly so I made this

Congratulations!!!

Mevo is in voluntary administration Jaime Lyth, reporting for BusinessDesk (paywalled): New Zealand car share company Mevo has gone into voluntary administration a month after it crowdfunded $3.28 million. ... Mevo recently claimed it ...

I’m really gutted to hear Mevo is in voluntary administration. Hell, I got my full license to use their service. My fingers are crossed it can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
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Maybe we’ll have a situation where the first year in rates capping has unprecedented circumstances to void the rates cap 😆 I hope for our public services that wildly short sighted policy from the beehive doesn’t happen

So uh, are we still trying to save a few dollars on the weekly rates bill because I feel like diesel doubling in price is gonna mean drastic cuts to council services if we don’t raise revenue