Watch It And Weep: Alister Barry's Hot Air documents the losing battle, waged since 1990, between the politicians of good-will from both sides of the House who attempted to do something to mitigate the effects of climate change and the ruthless representatives of New Zealand's largest industries who opposed them.
IF YOU SEE only one film in the 2014 NZ International Film
Festival see Alister Barry's feature-length documentary, Hot Air.
This chilling exposé of the strategy and tactics adopted by
New Zealand's largest industries to ensure that no effective action to
combat climate change is ever undertaken in this country should be viewed by
every voter.
Hot Air
constitutes one of the most persuasive arguments for radical, ruthless and rapid
policy implementation on behalf of people and planet I have ever encountered.
The documentary proves conclusively that if a government opts
for “business as usual” politics, then it is “business” that usually always wins.
Hot Air screens on
the following dates at the following locations:
AUCKLAND
Friday 1 August 1:00 p.m. Sky City Cinema
Saturday 2 August 3:30 p.m. Sky City Cinema
WELLINGTON
Thursday 31 July 6:15 p.m. Paramount Cinema
(World Premiere)
Wednesday 6 August 11.00
a.m. Paramount Cinema
DUNEDIN
Friday 8 August 1:00 pm Rialto
Sunday 10 August 1:15pm Rialto
CHRISTCHURCH
Monday 11 Aug 6.00pm Hoyts
Northlands 3
Tuesday 12 August 11.00am Hoyts
Northlands 3
DO NOT MISS IT!
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Chris Trotter, admit: immigration is Holy Writ on the left.
ReplyDeleteThere is no truly green population in modern economies other than the Amish and even modestly green people will be emitting lots of CO2. It is time for the left to confront the fact that people are the problem.
To: JH.
ReplyDeleteThis comment is utterly impenetrable to reasonable interpretation.
What on earth are you trying to say - apart from "to be taken seriously as a proponent of actions designed to combat global warming you first have to revert to the technology of the Middle Ages" - and do you really expect such a ridiculous position to be taken seriously?
Of course, you could be trying to tell us that the planet can only be saved by eliminating the human species - but that would be even worse!
Ha! jh has a hammer, so all issues must be nails.
ReplyDeleteArguing in favour of immigration is by implication arguing that we are better off with a larger population (and by implication) a bigger economy. Every time a group opposes mining or a dam the proponents talk jobs and incomes. So while Eugenie Sage is opposing the Central Plains irrigation scheme Keith Locke had been saying "anti immigration has no place in the Green party".
ReplyDeleteYou might argue that it doesn't matter on a world scale (more people here is less people there), but what is being argued most often is that we are in a better state by having more people here (or U.K, Australia, Canada). Evidence to the contrary (Savings Working Group, Treasury, Reserve Bank) is ignored by the left-wing (or pro business) media.
What is being overlooked is showing how one nation should behave (regional sustainability). A social justice paradigm dominates an ecological paradigm. In Professor Kenneth Cumberland's 1970's TV Series Landmarks he describes Christchurch as a "distribution center for the farmland on the Canterbury Plain and similarly Auckland (Waikato) and Dunedin. Now Auckland like Melbourne grows on growth. When the growth stops people still need to produce goods and services as a means of exchange. While we talk about "green jobs" and "green economy" those jobs and that economy doesn't yet exist.
Not at all. How then should NZ and the world combat climate change?
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