Comments by "MountainMaid" (@MountainMaid238) on "New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency | NowThis" video.

@naberville3305 New Zealand was anti nuclear before she even graduated from high school. Lyrics from a NZ reggae band Herbs 'nuclear waste is a comin down, it's a comin down on you'.
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@naberville3305 Even if our Prime Minister wanted to go Nuclear, she would have a hard time convincing New Zealanders raised on 40+ years of being nationally proud of our nuclear free status. It would be like trying to convince us to give up our covid free status - pass (I can't even believe that is a thing I can say, and that its reference will be recognised worldwide)
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@naberville3305 Yeah, I don't think people buy into the industrial society thing anymore. If there is a better way that limits the impact on others and our environment, then I think that's where we're trying to head. Having this structures out at sea with cables linking them back to land, how can we ensure they don't interfere with sea life and migration patterns? We have ancestral whales that return to New Zealand and whose lifecycles are part of the cultural identity of the Indigenous Māori. There's a bigger picture to consider. I love science, have done since childhood, and I've learnt to incorporate it with my cultural dna. I do think there's a way to manage our energy needs, but I just don't think nuclear is gonna cut it. But I can appreciate it's logic, the science in it is quite beautiful.
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@Mattjet007 And a load of bs. Be thankful you're alive to complain about it
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@naberville3305 I mean, to be fair, being a country in the Pacific means we got to see first hand the destruction of nuclear testing on attols by France. The radioactive fallout is still impacting families today. France said their testing was clean, but if it was why didn't they test it in their own backyard instead of potentially devastating island paradises in the Pacific?
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@naberville3305 Yes, but I'm also talking about the everyday person with family in the Pacific, are unlikely to vote a party who wants to bring more of that kind of thing into the country. It may be a bias but it's understandable. And then there's the issue of dealing with the radioactive waste and waste from mining uranium, a logistical nightmare for a small country with little land left for such a big project like long term storage of hazardous waste.
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@naberville3305 So our waste becomes someone else's problem? I thought we were all moving away from unsustainable practices like that? I mean, we can no longer dump our plastic waste in China's direction. That kind of problem solving just makes you dependent on others.
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@naberville3305 You did well, you got like three people responding to you there for a bit! Thanks for the discussion, I learnt a lot which is more important I think than always seeking agreement. That's just not realistic I've found 😅
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@naberville3305 Ok, this piece I completely can't stand. Burying something for 10000 won't hurt anyone? So where I used to live was rural but 2km down the road was a fertiliser plant. Long story short four generations of women in my family have endometriosis. There is always an impact when it comes to dumping waste. It's so naive to think 'out of mind, out of sight'. I think in New Zealand at least we're moving away from such unsustainable notions because our land is so small and our oceans so sensitive that the impacts on land and sea are felt by humans in their own lifetime.
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@naberville3305 How is nuclear waste easier to contain and prevent environmental harm? I do think you're oversimplifying. If it was so easy and it's impact minimal in comparison, it would be implemented already.
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@dahalofreeek I definitely agree with you on the housing. I worry for my children and their ability to live in their own homes as adults.
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@OryanMcLean Trolly trolly troll
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@lunalongshadow7510 She's the most trustworthy Prime Minister we've ever had. Not perfect, no. But pretty close. Aren't you lucky to be alive to complain about her.
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@OryanMcLean No I'm not a Kiwi, I'm an Indigenous Māori
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@OryanMcLean Honey, my pride of self has nothing to do with pretense, but decades of therapy and decolonisation. Don't go around telling people who not to be, don't be gross. You post put downs towards people, then arrogantly tell them what to do lol the pretense is yours. I don't agree with everything that Jacinda is about, she sucks when it comes to issues involving Māori, but out of the lot we got to choose from, I'd still pick her. E hoa.
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@OryanMcLean Really? I have to explain? They are related terms
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@OryanMcLean Jesus you're disgusting, you have no idea why I choose her. Im an Indigenous Māori, so my bandwagon is hardly the popular. If by popular you mean mainstream, I don't have the same value systems as middle class white. I went off what worked for me and my family, commonly living in poverty and very rarely go on such luxuries as a holiday. Would I vote for her in the next election? Well I didn't vote for her in this one, because I knew thousands of others would be, and strategised my vote elsewhere. I don't know if her type of leadership will be needed after this pandemic, but while we're still in it, I like what she's done. Not perfect, but I can live with her policies better than Nationals. I might even say I like ACT over National. Anyway, you're being pretentious, so go sort yourself.
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@gregwaghorn9717 What are you talking about? How about you add some context to your claims
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@10AntsTapDancing We've had it good in New Zealand regarding covid-19 we forget what is happening to other countries. In August we took our son to after hours on a Saturday night, usually full of drunks and vulnerable people with respiratory issues suffering through winter. Typically a 3 to 4 hour wait, we were seen in half an hour because very few people are catching the flu or pneumonia and therefore dying from it. We're very lucky to be an island nation where it's easy to shut a virus out. Just wish the number of Americans moving here would slow, immigration is not going to help our housing crisis.
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@10AntsTapDancing Yep the only funerals I've been to this year have been for elderly or terminal, not respiratory thank goodness. We only had to live through one lockdown and have been living normal for 8 months. There's been such a decrease in deaths, funeral homes have been struggling to stay operational. Our measures to keep covid-19 out also decreased other virus's etc that would normally be killing at this time of year.
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@10AntsTapDancing How did you expect the government to protect the vulnerable, at that early stage? What do you think protection of the vulnerable would look like?
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@10AntsTapDancing We only had to be in lockdown for almost 5 weeks, then we slowly came back to normal. I still have all the same freedoms as before this pandemic hit. I'm not sure what you mean at loss of freedom.
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@10AntsTapDancing Meh, I'm Indigenous Māori so being policed has been an intergenerational reality for us. Had our children taken into state care for any reason, lands confiscated and forced out of our homes and land (I'm Parihaka). We lost our sovereignty/freedom decades ago. This recent stuff doesn't bother me at all, because those kinds of state sanctioned oppression isn't new to people like me and mine.
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