Climate change is no longer a top threat for the defence force in its latest spending plan.…
It marks a departure from the 2019 Defence Capability Plan, which identified climate change as a key driver of security events affecting New Zealand, mentioning it 13 times and dedicating a chapter to outlining how climate change would stretch the defence force.
Both the Defence Assessment 2021 and Defence Policy and Strategy Statement 2023 identified compounding impacts from climate change as one of the two top threats to New Zealand’s defence interests in the medium-to-long term.
If the Defence Force today listed climate change as one of the top two threats to NZ’s defence interests, I’d want the leadership put into a lunatic asylum.
Climate change is a serious environmental and economic issue. It might have an impact on defence and security in 50+ years time, but to have an article demanding to know why it is no longer in the top two shows how slanted the worldview is.
Currently the world is facing:
- A land war in Europe
- The collapse of NATO
- A trade war which could lead to China moving faster on Taiwan
- Iran closer to nuclear weapons
- China doing live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea
- The Israel-Hamas war
- The collapse of trust in institutions
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
4 comments:
Let’s all cheer for climate change in little old NZ. It’d be great to holiday in subtropical Northland in the southern winter
Succinct as always David.
We are relying on all service haka on the beaches to repel climate change refugees arriving in the thousands.
Well said, David.
Those Martians. Are they the same Martians who are demanding something called "co-governance (more correctly known as apartheid)?
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