Welcome to your future sleepy hobbits

Welcome to those 500 year floods every decade folks.

The grim reality of what our rapidly warming climate will do to us is starting to become apparent to even the most ignorant climate denier. The spate of extreme weather patterns we are seeing are directly attributable to global warming, and those extremes are quickly becoming the norm.

After the Tasman Tempest, we have country wide flooding now and there’s another low about to dump just as much rain upon us again later in the week.

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Yet we as NZers, even while the extreme weather hits us, can still not connect this…

…to this…

…but such wilful ignorance I think is coming to an end because in NZ something wonderful is happening.

Rich people are being hit just as hard as poor people by global warming.

Their beachfront mansions on cliffs on the North Shore are ready to fall into the ocean…

…the exclusive suburb of Kohimarama faced mudslides and slips…

…the grim reality of politics in a country as smug and self satisfied as NZ is that change doesn’t occur until it’s the rich people who are suffering. The suffering of the poor simply doesn’t matter, look at the utter contepemt our neoliberal welfare state has towards the poor they crucify. Look at the way beneficiaries are treated the way the homeless are treated, the way prisoners are treated, the way young people are treated, the way women are treated, the way Maori are treated – every group in NZ who historically have little or no power are abused as a matter of fact, so their suffering doesn’t matter but sweet Christ on a bicycle, when rich people start hurting, then something must be done!

Watch how quickly the rich demand genuine political change rather than the cheap masquerade of progress currently being promised by the major political parties when their properties are the first to get destroyed by climate change.

Watch how quickly our gutless political class will suddenly change their tune on environmental solutions once the rich white volk start screaming.

Let’s all hope for the sake of the entire country that the North Shore mansions and expensive exclusive suburbs are the first to drown because only then will we get real change.